About June 24
June 24, 2025 is the 175th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 238 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 24
- 1128 –Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães: forces led by Alfonso I defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of León and her lover Fernando Pérez de Traba. After this battle, the future king calls himself “Prince of Portugal”, the first step towards “official independence” that will be reached in 1139 after the Battle of Ourique.
- 1340 –Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
- 1497 –John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
- 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.
- 1717 –The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
- 1793 –The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
- 1812 –Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon’s Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.
- 1821 –The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
- 1859 –Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
- 1894 –Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
- 1902 –King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
- 1916 –Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.
- 1916 –World War I: the Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
- 1932 –A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People’s Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
- 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.
- 1975 –An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
- 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.
- 2002 –The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
- 2004 –In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
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