Wikipedia: June 24

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

Events:

1314?: Battle of Bannockburn?. Scottish forces led by [Robert the Bruce]? beat [Edward II]? of England. Scotland regains its independence.
1441?: Eton? College founded.
1497?: John Cabot lands on the coast of North America.
1509?: Henry VIII crowned King of England.
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 Macao.
1664?: The colony of New Jersey is founded.
1692?: Kingston?, Jamaica founded.
1793: First republican constitution in France adopted.
1812: Napoleon invades Russia.
1880: First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada.
1859: Battle of Solferino? ([Battle of the Three Sovereigns]?). Sardinia? and [Napoleon III]? of France defeat [Franz Joseph I]? of Austria in northern Italy.
1861: Tennessee becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the US.
1894: The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years.
1901: First exhibition of Pablo Picasso opens.
1913: Greece and Serbia annull their alliance with Bulgaria.
1915: The steamer Eastland? capsizes in Chicago. 800 people die.
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?.
1948: Start of the [Berlin Blockade]?. The Soviet Union makes contact of the West with West Berlin impossible.
1963: Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK.
1975: An [Eastern Airlines]? [Boeing 727]? crashes at [John F. Kennedy Airport]?, New York. 113 people die.
1980: O Canada first performed at le [Congrès national des Canadiens-Français]?.
1983: [Sally Ride]?, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.

Births:

1803: [George James Webb]?, composer
1888: Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect
1915: Fred Hoyle, cosmologist
1942: [Mick Fleetwood]?, blues/pop/rock musician ([Fleetwood Mac]?)
1944: [Chris Wood]?, rock musician
1944: [Jeff Beck]?, rock guitarist (Yardbirds?)
1945: [Colin Blunstone]?, rock musician ((the Zombies?)

Deaths:

1908: Grover Cleveland, president of the USA (heart failure)

Also:

Feast day of St. John the Baptist
[Discovery Day]? in Newfoundland and Labrador (celebrating the 1497? John Cabot discovery)
[Day of Indian]? in Peru
[Bannockburn Day]? in Scotland (see 1314? above)

See Also: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December

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