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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.
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 France adopted.1812 - Napoleonic Wars : Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins.1859 - Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns ). Sardinia and 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 .1915 - The steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago . 800 people die.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 seconds1999 - The guitar which Eric Clapton recorded Layla is sold at auction for the astounding price of $497,500.
Births
1700-1899 1777 - John Ross , naval officer and explorer (d. 1856 )1795 - Ernst Heinrich Weber , anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878 )1803 - George James Webb , composer1842 - 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 )1915 - Fred Hoyle , cosmologist, science fiction author (d. 2001 )1922 - Tata Giacobetti , Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra )1928 - Wolfgang Altenburg, German general1930 - Claude Chabrol , film director1931 - 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 )1960 - Trisha Meili , author of I Am the Central Park Jogger1967 - Richard Kruspe-Bernstein , lead guitarist for Rammstein 1969 - Sissel Kyrkjebø , Norwegian singer1970 - Glenn Medeiros, Hawaiian singer-songwriter1985 - Matthew Dezendorf, Programmer, actor, and composer1986 - Solange Knowles , actress, singer1987 - 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 candidate1953 - George Herbert Walker , grandfather to President George H. W. Bush 1987 - Jackie Gleason , actor, musician1993 - Archie Williams , American athlete
2000-2099
Holidays and observances June 23 - June 25 - May 24 - July 24 -- listing of all days
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