June 24 Jack Dempsey Boxer, born in Manassa, Colorado, USA. He worked in the copper mines and boxed in the mining camps of Colorado before becoming a professional boxer (1912). He fought in more than 100 semi-pro and professional bouts before winning the heavyweight championship in 1919 by knocking out Jess Willard. He successfully...
Read Full Biography Article http://newsletters.aetv.com/cgi-bin15/DM/y/eZON0JZEBh0BkU0bgu0Ev -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Also Born On This Day Henry Ward Beecher Protestant clergyman and reformer, born in Litchfield, Connecticut, USA. One of 13 children of clergyman Lyman Beecher and brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe , he studied at Amherst (1834) and under his father at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, OH. In 1839 he became pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in... http://newsletters.aetv.com/cgi-bin15/DM/y/eZON0JZEBh0BkU0bgv0Ew Ambrose (Gwinett) Bierce Writer, journalist, and editor, born in Meigs Co, Ohio, USA. His service in the Civil War provided him with both material for some of his finest stories and the disillusioned attitude that coloured much of his writing. After the war he went to San Francisco, where he worked as an editor while writing for various... http://newsletters.aetv.com/cgi-bin15/DM/y/eZON0JZEBh0BkU0bgw0Ex [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
