June 24
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June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Events [change]
- 1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães. Portuguese forces led by Afonso I beat 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 beat 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 is founded.
- 1497 – John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; first European discovery of the region since the Vikings.
- 1497 – Cornish rebels 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).
- 1604 – Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford dies. Leading candidate for true authorship of the Shakespeare canon.
- 1662 – The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macao.
- 1664 – The colony of New Jersey is founded.
- 1692 – Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
- 1793 – First republican constitution in France adopted.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins.
- 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 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.
- 1913 – 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.
- 1918 – 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, USA, 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.
- 1982 – British Airways flight 9 flies into volcanic ash erupting from Mount Galunggung in Indonesia, causing all four of its engines to fail.
- 1983 – Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
- 1983 – Yasser Arafat banned from Damascus.
- 1987 – Lionel Messi, Argentinian footballer, is born
- 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.
- 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 the astounding price of $497,500.
- 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281 people.
- 2004 - In the state of New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
- 2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected to his first term as President of Iran.
- 2007 – Before becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (on June 27) Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party.
- 2010 – Julia Gillard becomes the first female Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding Kevin Rudd.
- 2010 – The longest match in the history of professional tennis ends at Wimbledon, after two days. John Isner beats Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the deciding set.
- 2012 - Lonesome George, the last-known surviving Pinta Island tortoise, dies in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, aged around 100. His sub-species is therefore considered to be extinct.
- 2012 - Mohammed Mursi of the Muslim Brotherhood is declared the winner of the previous week's Presidential election in Egypt.
Births [change]
- 1244 – Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (died 1308)
- 1293 – Joan the Lame, Queen of France (died 1348)
- 1343 – Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (died 1373)
- 1386 – John of Capistrano, Italian saint (died 1456)
- 1485 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (died 1558)
- 1535 – Joan of Spain, Spanish-born Queen Consort of Portugal (died 1573)
- 1542 – Saint John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (died 1591)
- 1777 – John Ross, naval officer and explorer (died 1856)
- 1782 – Juan Larrea, Argentine politician and merchant (died 1847)
- 1795 – Ernst Heinrich Weber, anatomist and physiologist (died 1878)
- 1803 – George James Webb, composer (died 1887)
- 1804 – Willard Richards, American religious leader (died 1854)
- 1811 – John Archibald Campbell, American jurist (died 1889)
- 1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (died 1887)
- 1821 – Guillermo Rawson, Argentine politician (died 1890)
- 1825 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1844)
- 1826 – George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (died 1898)
- 1838 – Jan Matejko, Polish painter (died 1893)
- 1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American author (died 1914)
- 1850 – Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, British general, original Order of Merit member (died 1916)
- 1852 – Victor Adler, Austrian politician (died 1918)
- 1860 – Mercedes of Orleans, Queen of Spain (died 1878)
- 1869 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark (died 1957)
- 1882 – Carl Diem, German sports scientist and Olympic official (died 1962)
- 1883 – Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born American physicist (died 1964)
- 1888 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (died 1964)
- 1893 – Roy O. Disney, American businessman (died 1971)
- 1895 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer (died 1983)
- 1901 – Harry Partch, composer (died 1974)
- 1906 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (died 1986)
- 1908 – Hugo Distler, German composer (died 1942)
- 1908 – Guru Gopinath Indian classical dancer (d 1987)
- 1909 – David Rose, composer, musician (died 1990)
- 1911 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (died 1995)
- 1911 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer and physicist (died 2011)
- 1913 – Gustaaf Detoor, Belgian cyclist (died 2002)
- 1914 – Robert Aickman, author (died 1981)
- 1915 – Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and science fiction author (died 2001)
- 1919 – Al Molinaro, American actor
- 1922 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (died 1988)
- 1923 – Margaret Olley, Australian artist (died 2011)
- 1927 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist
- 1928 – Wolfgang Altenburg, German general
- 1930 – Claude Chabrol, French film director (died 2010)
- 1931 – Billy Casper, American golfer
- 1942 – Mick Fleetwood, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
- 1942 – Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, former President of Chile
- 1942 – Michele Lee, actress
- 1944 – Jeff Beck, British guitarist (Yardbirds)
- 1944 – Chris Wood, British musician (died 1983)
- 1945 – Colin Blunstone, American musician (The Zombies)
- 1945 – George Pataki, former Governor of New York
- 1946 – Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (died 1986)
- 1946 – Robert Reich, American politician and political commentator
- 1949 – Betty Jackson, English fashion designer (born in Lancashire)
- 1949 – John Illsey, English guitarist (Dire Straits)
- 1949 – Brigitte Mohnhaupt, German militant, member of the Red Army Faction
- 1953 – Garry Shider, musician (P Funk)
- 1956 – Joe Penny, actor
- 1957 – Mark Parkinson, 45th Governor of Kansas
- 1958 – Jean Charest, Quebec politician
- 1959 – Andy McCluskey, British singer, songwriter and musician
- 1960 – Trisha Meili, author
- 1961 – Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 – Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (died 2007)
- 1967 – Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German guitarist (Rammstein)
- 1967 – Sherry Stringfield, American actress
- 1969 – Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
- 1970 – Glenn Medeiros, Hawaiian singer and songwriter
- 1972 – Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
- 1973 – Alexander Beyer, German actor
- 1975 – Marek Malik, Czech ice hockey player
- 1977 – Dimos Dikoudis, Greek basketball player
- 1978 – Luis Garcia, Spanish footballer
- 1978 – Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- 1978 – Juan Roman Riquelme, Argentine footballer
- 1978 – Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
- 1979 – Petra Nemcova, Czech model
- 1980 – Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 – Minka Kelly, American actress
- 1981 – Siddharth Nair, cartoonist and writer
- 1982 – Kevin Nolan, English footballer
- 1985 – Diego Alves, Brazilian footballer
- 1986 – Stuart Broad, English cricketer
- 1986 – Solange Knowles, American actress and singer
- 1987 – Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
- 1988 – Micah Richards, English footballer
- 1991 – Rie Kitahara, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
Deaths [change]
- 238 – Maximius Thrax, Roman Emperor (born 173)
- 803 – Higbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne
- 1314 – Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester (born 1291)
- 1314 – Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (born 1274)
- 1398 – Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty (born 1328)
- 1439 – Frederick IV of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
- 1519 – Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara (born 1480)
- 1604 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England (born 1550)
- 1835 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (born 1769)
- 1908 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (born 1837)
- 1909 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (born 1849)
- 1922 – Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1867, assassinated)
- 1931 – Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese Communist politician (born 1880)
- 1947 – Emil Seidel, American politician and Mayor of Milwaukee (born 1864)
- 1953 – George Herbert Walker, grandfather of US President George H. W. Bush (born 1875)
- 1968 – Tony Hancock, British comedian (born 1924)
- 1984 – Clarence Campbell, Canadian president of the National Hockey League (born 1905)
- 1987 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (born 1916)
- 2000 – Vera Atkins, Special Operations Executive intelligence officer (born 1908)
- 2002 – Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (born 1913)
- 2004 – Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (born 1957)
- 2007 – Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestler (born 1964)
- 2007 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (born 1967)
- 2007 – Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dance hall artist (born 1924)
- 2009 – Romeo LeBlanc, Governor-General of Canada (born 1927)
- 2012 – Lonesome George, Ecuadorean Pinta Island tortoise (born around 1912)
- 2012 – Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player (born 1926)
- 2012 – Miki Roque, Spanish footballer (born 1988)
Observances [change]
- Discovery Day (Newfoundland and Labrador)
- National Day of Quebec
- Saint John's Day, day of Midsummer celebrations in the Northern Hemisphere
- Flag Day (Estonia, Finland)
