June 24
June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years ) in the Gregorian Calendar , with 190 days remaining.
Events
1100-1899
1128 - Battle of St.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 independence in 1143 .
1314 - 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 founded.
1497 - John Cabot lands on North America , either at Newfoundland or Cape Breton ; first European discovery of the region since the Vikings .
1497 - 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 ).
1604 - Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford dies. Leading candidate for true authorship of the Shakespeare canon.
1662 - Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macao .
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.
1821 - Battle Of Carabobo and independence from Venezuela .
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 national anthem of Canada , at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français .
1894 - The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years.
1900-1999
1901 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso 's work opens.
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 Paris
1932 - A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand ).
1940 - France and Italy sign an armistice.
1941 - The Germans capture Vilna , Brest-Litovsk , and Kaunas .
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 obsecnity 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.
1983 - Sally Ride , first female American astronaut, returns to earth.
1983 - 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 .
1996 - Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the 400 metres with a time of 19.66 seconds
1999 - The guitar which Eric Clapton recorded Layla is sold at auction for the astounding price of $497,500.
Births
1500-1899
1542 - St. John of the Cross , Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (d. 1591 )
1777 - John Ross , naval officer and explorer (d. 1856 )
1795 - Ernst Heinrich Weber , anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878 )
1803 - George James Webb , composer
1804 - Willard Richards , American religious leader (d. 1854 )
1813 - Henry Ward Beecher , American clergyman and reformer (d. 1887 )
1842 - Ambrose Bierce , author (d. 1914 , speculative)
1850 - Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum , original Order of Merit member (d. 1916 )
1882 - Carl Diem , sports scientist (d. 1962 )
1883 - Victor Franz Hess , American physicist
1888 - Gerrit Rietveld , Dutch architect (d. 1964 )
1895 - Jack Dempsey , boxer (d. 1983 )
1900-1999
1901 - Harry Partch , microtonal composer (d. 1974 )
1906 - Pierre Fournier , French cellist (d. 1986 )
1909 - David Rose , composer, musician (d. 1990 )
1911 - Juan Manuel Fangio , Argentinian race car driver (d. 1995 )
1914 - Robert Aickman , author on the occult (d. 1981 )
1915 - Fred Hoyle , cosmologist, science fiction author (d. 2001 )
1922 - Tata Giacobetti , Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra )
1928 - Wolfgang Altenburg , German general
1930 - Claude Chabrol , film director
1931 - Billy Casper , professional golfer
1942 - Mick Fleetwood , blues/pop/rock musician (Fleetwood Mac )
1942 - Michele Lee , actress
1944 - Jeff Beck , rock guitarist ("Yardbirds ")
1944 - Chris Wood , rock musician
1945 - Colin Blunstone , rock musician ("The Zombies ")
1945 - George Pataki , Governor of New York
1946 - Ellison Onizuka , astronaut (d. 1986 )
1953 - Garry Shider , musician (P Funk )
1956 - Joe Penny , actor
1960 - Trisha Meili , author of I Am the Central Park Jogger
1967 - Richard Kruspe-Bernstein , lead guitarist for Rammstein
1969 - Sissel Kyrkjebø , Norwegian singer
1970 - Glenn Medeiros , Hawaiian singer-songwriter
1981 - Siddharth Nair , Cartoonist and writer
1985 - Matthew Dezendorf , Programmer, actor, and composer
1986 - Solange Knowles , actress, singer
1987 - Jeroen de Jong , student, actor
Deaths
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1500-1899
1900-1999
1908 - Grover Cleveland , former president of the USA (heart failure)
1922 - Walther Rathenau , minister of Foreign Affairs for the Weimar Republic (b. 1867 , assassinated)
1947 - Emil Seidel , politician, mayor of Milwaukee, Socialist vice-presidential candidate
1953 - George Herbert Walker , grandfather to President George H. W. Bush
1981 - Terry Fox , ran the 'Marathon of Hope'
1987 - Jackie Gleason , actor, musician
1993 - Archie Williams , American athlete
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
External links
June 23 - June 25 - May 24 - July 24 -- listing of all days
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