June 24

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June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining.

1 Events
2 Births
- 2.1 1244 to 1899
- 2.2 1900 to 1999
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

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Events

972 - Battle of Cedynia, near Cedynia. Polish forces have had their first documented victory.
1128 - Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães. Portuguese forces led by Alfonso I defeat his mother D.Teresa and D.Fernão Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" in 1143.
1314 - End of the Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeat Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence.
1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
1441 - Eton College founded.
1497 - John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; first European discovery of the region since the Vikings.
- Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank executed at Tyburn, London
1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England.
1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.
1535 - The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
1597 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
1662 - Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
1664 - The colony of New Jersey is founded.
1692 - Kingston, Jamaica founded.
1793 - First republican constitution in France adopted.
1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins.
1813 - Battle of Beaver Dams : A British, and Indian joint force defeat the U.S Army.
1821 - Battle of Carabobo : Venezuela gains total independence from Spain.
1859 - Battle of Solferino: (Battle of the Three Sovereigns). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
1861 - Tennessee becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the US.
1880 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
1894 - The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years.
1901 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens.
1902 - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
1910 - Japan invades Korea.
1913 - Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
- Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia.
1916 - Mary Pickford becomes first film star to get million dollar contract.
1918 - First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
- The giant cannon Big Bertha begins bombardments on Paris
1932 - A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).
1940 - France and Italy sign an armistice.
1941 - Government of briefly independent Lithuania conducts its first meeting under prime minister Juozas Ambrazevičius
1945 - The U.S.S.R. capture the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg.
1946 - Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France
1947 - First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.
1948 - Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
1963 - Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK.
1974 - The UPC label is used for the first time to ring up purchases at a supermarket.
1975 - An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
1981 - For what would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, the Humber Bridge, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, opens.
1983 - Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
- Yasir Arafat banned from Damascus.
1993 - Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.
1995 - The New Jersey Devils sweep the Detroit Red Wings in four games in the 1995 NHL Stanley Cup finals.
- In the final of the Rugby Union World Cup held at Ellis Park in Johannesburg, a drop goal in extra time by Joel Stransky lifts South Africa to a 15-12 win over New Zealand.
1996 - Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the 200 metres with a time of 19.66 seconds
1999 - The guitar with which Eric Clapton recorded Layla is sold at auction for $497,500.
2004 - Habib Dodo, the general secretary of the Communist Youth of Côte d'Ivoire is assassinated by pro-government forces.