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.

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Contents

1 Events

2 Births

3 Deaths

4 Holidays and observances

5 External links

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Events

1128 - Battle of S�o Mamede, near Guimar�es. Portuguese forces led by Afonso I defeat his mother D.Teresa and D.Fern�o 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.
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 M�nster 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 : 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 Congr�s national des Canadiens-Fran�ais.
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 it's 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 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.
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.
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 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.

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Births

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 (d. 1887)
1804 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
1813 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (d. 1887)
1826 - George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
1842 - Ambrose Bierce, author
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 (d. 1964)
1888 - Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964)
1895 - Jack Dempsey, boxer (d. 1983)
1901 - Harry Partch, composer (d. 1974)
1906 - Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
1908 - Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942)
1908 - Guru Gopinath Indian classical dancer (d 1987)
1909 - David Rose, composer, musician (d. 1990)
1911 - Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (d. 1995)
1914 - Robert Aickman, author (d. 1981)
1915 - Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and 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, golfer
1942 - Mick Fleetwood, musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1942 - Michele Lee, actress
1944 - Jeff Beck, guitarist (Yardbirds)
1944 - Chris Wood, musician (d. 1983)
1945 - Colin Blunstone, musician (The Zombies)
1945 - George Pataki, Governor of New York
1946 - Ellison Onizuka, astronaut (d. 1986)
1949 - Betty Jackson, British fashion designer
1953 - Garry Shider, musician (P Funk)
1956 - Joe Penny, actor
1960 - Trisha Meili, author
1967 - Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, guitarist (Rammstein)
1969 - Sissel Kyrkjeb�, Norwegian singer
1970 - Glenn Medeiros, Hawaiian singer and songwriter
1978 - Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, guitarist (Nightwish)
1986 - Solange Knowles, actress and singer

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Deaths

1398 - Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty (b. 1328)
1439 - Frederick IV of Austria - Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria
1519 - Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara (b. 1480)
1604 - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England
1908 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (heart failure)
1909 - Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
1922 - Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1867, assassinated)
1947 - Emil Seidel, American politician and Mayor of Milwaukee
1953 - George Herbert Walker, grandfather of President George H. W. Bush
1981 - Terry Fox, marathon runner
1987 - Jackie Gleason, actor, musician
1993 - Archie Williams, American athlete
2000 - Vera Atkins, Special Operations Executive intelligence officer
2002 - Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg
2003 - Maynard Jackson, Mayor of Atlanta
2003 - Leon Uris, author
2004 - Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (b. 1957)

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Holidays and observances

Roman Catholic Church - Feast of Saint John the Baptist, patron of farriers
Original Midsummer's Eve in Finland and Sweden, although the official holiday is now moved to the nearest Friday
One of the four Irish Quarter days in the Irish Calendar.
Discovery Day in Newfoundland and Labrador (celebrating the 1497 discovery by John Cabot)
F�te nationale du Qu�bec, also called St-Jean-Baptiste Day
Day of Indian in Peru
Bannockburn Day in Scotland (see 1314 above)
Bah�'� Faith - Feast of Rahmat (Mercy) - First day of the sixth month of the Bah�'� Calendar
Quarter days in England

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External links

BBC: On This Day (http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/24)
ThisDayThatYear.com on June 24 (http://www.thisdaythatyear.com/jun/people24.htm)

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