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June 24:

Film releases

• 1958 - The H-Man, a tokusatsu film produced and released by Toho Studios
• 1987 - Spaceballs, a science fiction parody film co-written, directed by, and starring Mel Brooks
• 2011 - World of the Dead: The Zombie Diaries 2

Births

• 1937 - Charles N. Brown (d. 2009), the co-founder and editor of Locus

Deaths

• 1969 - Willy Ley (b. 1906), a German-American science writer, science fiction fan, and space advocate who helped popularize rocketry and spaceflight in both Germany and the United States