About June 24
June 24, 2024 is the 176th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
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Cancer is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 219 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 24
- 1314 –First War of Scottish Independence: the Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce, though England did not recognize Scottish independence until 1328 with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.
- 1374 –A sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
- 1497 –John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
- 1535 –The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
- 1597 –The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
- 1604 –Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
- 1622 –Battle of Macau: The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
- 1812 –Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon’s Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.
- 1813 –Battle of Beaver Dams: a British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
- 1821 –The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
- 1913 –Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
- 1916 –World War I: the Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
- 1918 –First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
- 1938 –Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
- 1939 –Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the country’s third prime minister.
- 1947 –Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
- 1949 –The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
- 1957 –In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
- 1982 –“The Jakarta Incident”: British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
- 2004 –In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
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