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June 24 is the 175th day of the year(176th inleap years) in theGregorian calendar.There are 190 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

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Up to 1900

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79–Titus becomes Roman Emperor after the previous day's death of his father,Vespasian.
109– Roman EmperorTrajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, anaqueduct that channelswater from Lake Bracciano, 40kilometers northwest ofRome.
972–Battle of Cedynia: First documented victory ofPolish forces takes place.
1128–Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães.Portuguese forces led byAfonso 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 "official independence" in1143.
1230– TheSiege of Jaén starts in the context of theSpanish Recoquista.
1314– End of theBattle of Bannockburn.Scottish forces led byRobert the Bruce beatEdward II of England.Scotland regains its independence.
1340–Hundred Years' War:Battle of Sluys – The Frenchfleet is almost destroyed by the English fleet commanded personally by KingEdward III of England.
1374– A sudden outbreak ofSt. John's Dance causes people in the streets ofAix-la–Chapelle,Prussia, to experiencehallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
1441–Eton College is founded.
1497–John Cabot lands onNorth America inNewfoundland; first European discovery of the region since theVikings.
1497–Cornish rebelsMichael An Gof andThomas Flamank are executed atTyburn,London
1509–Henry VIII is crowned King of England.
1534–Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery ofPrince Edward Island.
1535– TheAnabaptist state ofMünster is conquered and disbanded.
1571–Miguel Lopez de Legazpi foundsManila.
1597– The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reachesBantam (onJava).
1604– Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford dies. Leading candidate for true authorship of the Shakespeare canon.
1622–Battle of Macau: The Dutch fail in an attempt to captureMacau.
1662– The Dutch attempt but fail to captureMacao.
1664– The colony ofNew Jersey is founded.
1692–Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
1779–American Revolutionary War: TheGreat Siege of Gibraltar begins.
1793– First republicanconstitution inFrance adopted.
1812–Napoleonic Wars:Napoleon's invasion ofRussia begins.
1813–Battle of Beaver Dams: A British and Indian combinedforce defeats theUnited States Army.
1821–Battle of Carabobo:Venezuela gains totalindependence fromSpain.
1859–Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns).Sardinia andFrance defeatAustria in northernItaly.
1861–Tennessee becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the US.
1880– First performance ofO Canada, the song that would become thenational anthem ofCanada, at theCongrès national des Canadiens-Français.
1894– TheIOC decides to hold theOlympic Games every four years.

1901– 2000

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1901– First exhibition ofPablo Picasso's work opens.
1902– KingEdward VII of the United Kingdom developsappendicitis, delaying his coronation.
1910–Japan invadesKorea.
1913–Greece andSerbia annul their alliance withBulgaria.
1913–Joseph Cook becomes the 6thPrime Minister of Australia.
1916–Mary Pickford becomes first movie star to get million dollar contract.
1918– Firstairmail service inCanada fromMontreal toToronto.
1918– The giant cannonBig Bertha begins bombardments onParis
1932– A military coup ends the absolute power of the king ofSiam (Thailand).
1938– Pieces ofmeteor, estimated to have weighed 450metric tons when it explodes in theEarth'satmosphere, lands near Chicora,Pennsylvania.
1939–Siam is renamedThailand for the first time, byPrime Minister Plaek Pibulsonggram.
1940–France andItaly sign an armistice.
1941– Government of briefly independent Lithuania conducts its first meeting under prime ministerJuozas Ambrazevičius
1945– TheU.S.S.R. capture theFree Republic of Schwarzenberg.
1946–Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister ofFrance
1947– First known sighting ofUFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying overWashington, USA, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.
1948– Start of theBerlin Blockade. TheSoviet Union makes overland travel between the West withWest Berlin impossible.
1957– TheU.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by theFirst Amendment.
1963–Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by theUK.
1967– TheUK's worst caving disaster kills 6 people at Mossdale Caverns.
1974– TheUPC label is used for the first time to ring up purchases at a supermarket.
1975– AnEastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes atJohn F. Kennedy Airport,New York. 113 people die.
1981– For what would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, theHumber Bridge, connectingYorkshire andLincolnshire, opens.
1982–British Airways flight 9 flies intovolcanic ash erupting from Mount Galunggung inIndonesia, causing all four of its engines to fail.
1982–Jean-Loup Chrétien becomes the first French person to go intospace.
1983–Sally Ride, first female Americanastronaut, returns to earth.
1983–Yasser Arafat banned fromDamascus.
1989–Jiang Zemin becomes theGeneral Secretary of the Communist Party of China.
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 amailbomb from theUnabomber.
1995–South Africa wins theRugby Union World Cup in front of its home crowd.Nelson Mandela famously hands the trophy to team captainFrancois Pienaar.
1996–Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the 200 metres with a time of 19.66 seconds
1999– Theguitar with whichEric Clapton recordedLayla is sold at auction for the astounding price of $497,500.

From 2001

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2002– The Igandutrain disaster inTanzania kills 281 people.
2003–Air France's lastConcorde flight takes place.
2004– In the state ofNew York,capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
2005–Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected to his first term asPresident of Iran.
2007– Before becomingPrime Minister of the United Kingdom (onJune 27)Gordon Brown succeedsTony Blair as leader of theLabour Party.
2010–Julia Gillard becomes the first femalePrime Minister of Australia, succeedingKevin Rudd.
2010– The longest match in the history of professionaltennis ends atWimbledon, after two days.John Isner beatsNicolas Mahut 70–68 in the deciding set.
2012–Lonesome George, the last-known surviving PintaIsland tortoise, dies in theGalapagos Islands,Ecuador, aged around 100. His sub–species is therefore considered to be extinct.
2012–Mohamed Morsi of theMuslim Brotherhood is declared the winner of the previous week'sPresidential election inEgypt.
2014–Albania officially becomes anEU candidate country.
2014–Uruguayan footballer Luis Suárez is involved in a biting controversy at the2014 FIFA World Cup when cameras show him bitingItaly'sGiorgio Chiellini during a match. He is suspended from competitive games for four months.
2016–David Cameron announces his intention to resign asPrime Minister of the United Kingdom after 51.9% of British voters decided to leave theEuropean Union in a referendum.
2017– 15 people are killed and 93 are missing after a landslide hits Xinmovillage inSichuan,People's Republic of China.

Births

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Up to 1800

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1244–Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (died1308)
1293–Joan the Lame, Queen ofFrance (died1348)
1314–Philippa of Hainaut, Queen Consort ofEdward III of England (died1369)
1343–Joan of Valois,Queen ofNavarre (died1373)
1386–John of Capistrano, Italian saint (died1456)
1413–John IV, Marquess of Montferrat (died1464)
1485–Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (died1558)
1519–Theodore Beza, Frenchtheologian and reformer (died1605)
1532–Edzard II, Count of East Frisia (died1599)
1532–William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died1592)
1532–Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died1588)
1535–Joan of Spain, Spanish-born Queen Consort ofPortugal (died1573)
1542–Saint John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (died1591)
1661–Hachisuka Tsunanori, Japanesedaimyo (died1730)
1694–Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss theorist (died1748)
1704–Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, Frencharistocrat (died1771)
1740–Juan Ignacio Molina,Chilean naturalist (died1829)
1755–Anarchasis Clats,Prussian-born Frenchrevolutionary (died1794)
1767–Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries, French geographer, author and translator (died1846)
1770–Albrecht Berblinger, Germaninventor (died1829)
1774–Antonio González de Balcarce, Argentinemilitary commander (died1819)
1777–John Ross, naval officer and explorer (died1856)
1782–Juan Larrea, Argentine politician and merchant (died1847)
1784–Juan Antonio Lavalleja,Uruguayan revolutionary and political figure (died1853)
1795–Ernst Heinrich Weber, anatomist and physiologist (died1878)

1801– 1900

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1803–George James Webb, composer (died1887)
1804–Willard Richards, American religious leader (died1854)
1811–John Archibald Campbell, American jurist (died1889)
1813–Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (died1887)
1818–Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar–Eisenach (died1901)
1821–Guillermo Rawson, Argentine politician (died1890)
1825–Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (died1844)
1826–George Goyder, surveyor-general ofSouth Australia (died1898)
1833–Gustaf Akerhielm,Prime Minister ofSweden (died1900)
1838–Jan Matejko, Polishpainter (died1893)
1842–Ambrose Bierce, American writer (died1914)
1850–Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British general, originalOrder of Merit member (died1916)
1852–Victor Adler, Austrian politician (died1918)
1860–Mercedes of Orléans, Queen ofSpain (died1878)
1869–Prince George of Greece and Denmark (died1957)
1869–Caroline Furness, Americanastronomer (died1936)
1880–Oswald Veblen, Americanmathematician (died1960)
1882–Carl Diem, German sports scientist and Olympic official (died1962)
1883–Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born Americanphysicist (died1964)
1883–Frank Venner, American runner (died1966)
1884–Frank Waller, American athlete (died1941)
1888–Gerrit Rietveld, Dutcharchitect (died1964)
1893–Roy O. Disney, American businessman (died1971)
1895–Jack Dempsey, American boxer (died1983)
1898–Karl Selter, Estonian politician (died1958)

1901– 1925

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1901–Harry Partch, composer (died1974)
1906–Pierre Fournier, French cellist (died1986)
1907–Arseny Tarkovsky, Russianpoet (died1989)
1908–Hugo Distler, German composer (died1942)
1908–Guru Gopinath Indian classical dancer (died1987)
1908–Alfons Rebane, Estoniancolonel (died1976)
1909–Jean Deslauriers, Canadianconductor,violinist andcomposer (died1978)
1909–William Penney, Englishmathematician (died1991)
1909–David Rose, composer, musician (died1990)
1911–Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (died1995)
1911–Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer andphysicist (died2011)
1912–Mary Wesley, British writer (died2002)
1913–Gustaaf Detoor, Belgian cyclist (died2002)
1914–Robert Aickman, writer (died1981)
1915–Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and science fiction writer (died2001)
1916–William B. Saxbe, 70thUnited States Attorney General (died2010)
1917–David Easton, Canadian political scientist (died2014)
1919–Al Molinaro, American actor (died2015)
1922–Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (died1988)
1922–Jack Carter, Americancomedian andactor (died2015)
1923–Margaret Olley, Australianartist (died2011)
1923–Marc Riboud, Frenchphotographer
1923–Cesare Romiti, Italianbusinessman andeconomist
1923–Yves Bonnefoy, Frenchpoet (died2016)
1924–Thelma Rogers, English actress (died2000)

1926– 1950

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1926–Walter Hirrlinger, German politician (died2018)
1927–Martin Lewis Perl, Americanphysicist (died2014)
1927–James B. Edwards, Americanpolitician, 110thGovernor ofSouth Carolina and 3rdUnited States Secretary of Energy (died2014)
1928–M. S. Viswanathan, Indian film score composer (died2015)
1928–Yvan Delporte, Belgian comics writer (died2007)
1928–Wolfgang Altenburg, German general
1929–Carolyn S. Shoemaker, Americanastronomer
1930–Claude Chabrol, French movie director (died2010)
1930–Dave Creighton, Canadianice hockey player (died2017)
1931–Billy Casper, American golfer (died2015)
1933–Sam Jones, Americanbasketball player
1937–Anita Desai, Americannovelist
1938–Lawrence Block, American writer
1938–Albufaz Elchibey, formerPresident ofAzerbaijan
1940–Vittorio Storaro, Italiancinematographer
1940–Augusto Fantozzi, Italian lawyer and politician (died2019)
1941–Charles Whitman, Americanmurderer (died1966)
1942–Colin Groves, Australianprimatologist (died2017)
1942–Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, formerPresident of Chile
1942–Michele Lee, actress
1944–Jeff Beck, British guitarist (Yardbirds)
1944–Chris Wood, British musician (died1983)
1945–Colin Blunstone, American musician (The Zombies)
1945–George Pataki, formerGovernor ofNew York
1945–Betty Stöve, Dutchtennis player
1946–Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (died1986)
1946–Robert Reich, American politician and political commentator
1947–Clarissa Dickson Wright, English cookery writer and broadcaster (died2014)
1947–Mick Fleetwood, British musician (Fleetwood Mac)
1949–Betty Jackson, English fashion designer (born inLancashire)
1949–John Illsey, Englishguitarist (Dire Straits)
1949–Brigitte Mohnhaupt, German militant, member of theRed Army Faction
1950–Jan Kulczyk, Polish businessman (d.2015)
1950–Wilfried, Austrian singer and actor (d.2017)
1950–Moshe Ya'alon, Israeli politician

1951– 1975

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1951–Ivar Formo, Norwegian cross-country skier (died2006)
1951–Raelene Boyle, Australian athlete
1951–Simon Rouse, English actor
1952–Dianna Melrose, Englishdiplomat
1953–William E. Moerner, Americanchemist andphysicist
1953–Garry Shider, musician (P Funk)
1954–Mark Edmondson, Australiantennis player
1956–Owen Paterson, British politician
1956–Joe Penny, American actor
1957–Astro, English rapper (UB40)
1957–Mark Parkinson, 45thGovernor of Kansas
1958–Jean Charest,Quebec politician
1959–Andy McCluskey, Britishsinger,songwriter andmusician
1960–Elish Angiolini, Scottishjudge
1960–Trisha Meili, writer
1961–Iain Glen, Scottish actor
1961–Bernie Nicholls, Canadianice hockey player
1963–Mike Wieringo, Americancomic book artist (died2007)
1963–Preki, Serbian-Americanfootballer
1966–Adrienne Shelly, American actress (died2006)
1966–Milena Bertolini, Italianfootballer and coach
1967–Richard Kruspe-Bernstein, German guitarist (Rammstein)
1967–Sherry Stringfield, American actress
1969–Nicodemo Gentile, Italian lawyer
1969–Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
1970–Glenn Medeiros, Hawaiian singer and songwriter
1971–Ji Jin-hee, South Korean actor
1971–Christopher Showerman, American actor
1972–Robbie McEwen, Australiancyclist
1973–Alexander Beyer, German actor
1973–Jere Lehtinen, Finnishice hockey player
1974–Chris Guccione, Americanbaseball player and umpire
1975–Marek Malik, Czechice hockey player
1975–Federico Pucciarello, Argentine-Italianrugby player

From 1976

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1977–Dimos Dikoudis, Greekbasketball player
1978–Luis García, Spanishfootballer
1978–Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanesefootballer
1978–Juan Román Riquelme,Argentine footballer
1978–Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen,Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
1979–Petra Nemcova, Czech model
1979–Dafydd Jones, Welshrugby player
1980–Cicinho, Brazilianfootballer
1980–Minka Kelly, Americanactress
1980–John Bryant Davila, American actor
1981–Siddharth Nair, cartoonist and writer
1982–Kevin Nolan, Englishfootballer
1982–Christian Montero, Costa Ricanfootballer
1982–Jarret Stoll, Canadianice hockey player
1983–Rebecca Cooke, English swimmer
1985–Diego Alves, Brazilian footballer
1986–Stuart Broad, Englishcricketer
1986–Solange Knowles, American actress and singer
1987–LiSA, Japanese singer and musician
1987–Lionel Messi, Argentinefootballer
1988–Micah Richards, Englishfootballer
1991–Rie Kitahara, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
1992–David Alaba, Austrianfootballer
1992–Raven Goodwin, American actress
1992–Stuart Hogg, Scottishrugby player
1992–Sam Morrison, Welsh cyclist
1993–Piero Barone, Italian singer (Il Volo)
1993–Beanie Feldstein, American actress

Deaths

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Up to 1950

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238–Maximius Thrax, Roman Emperor (born173)
803–Higbald, Bishop ofLindisfarne
1195–Albert I, Margrave of Meissen (born1158)
1314–Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester (born1291)
1314–Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (born1274)
1398–Hongwu Emperor ofChina, founder of the Ming Dynasty (born1328)
1439–Frederick IV of Austria, Regent ofTyrol andFurther Austria
1519–Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara (born1480)
1520–Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanesesamurai commander (born1489)
1564–Rani Durgavati, Indianqueen (born1524)
1604–Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, hereditaryLord Great Chamberlain of England (born1550)
1637–Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, Frenchastronomer (born1580)
1766–Adrien Maurice de Noailles, Frenchsoldier andpolitician (born1678)
1803–Matthew Thornton, signer of theUS Declaration of Independence (born1714)
1817–Thomas McKean, Americanlawyer and politician (born1769)
1835–Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (born1769)
1882–Joachim Raff, German-Swisscomposer (born1822)
1894–Marie François Sadi Carnot, Frenchstatesman (born1837)
1908–Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24thPresident of the United States (born1837)
1909–Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (born1849)
1922–Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (born1867, assassinated)
1931–Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (born1840)
1931–Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese Communist politician (born1880)
1935–Carlos Gardel, Argentinesinger-songwriter (born1890)
1947–Emil Seidel, American politician andMayor ofMilwaukee (born1864)

From 1951

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1953–George Herbert Walker, grandfather ofUS President George H. W. Bush (born1875)
1968–Tony Hancock, British comedian (born1924)
1984–Clarence Campbell, Canadian president of theNational Hockey League (born1905)
1987–Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (born1916)
1988–Marta Abba, Italian actress (b.1900)
1989–Hibari Misora, Japanesesinger andactress (born1937)
1993–Archie Williams, American sprinter (b.1915)
2000–Vera Atkins,Special Operations Executive intelligence officer (born1908)
2000–Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine singer-songwriter (born1973)
2002–Pierre Werner,Prime Minister ofLuxembourg (born1913)
2004–Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (born1957)
2007–Nancy Benoit, Americanprofessional wrestler (born1964)
2007–Chris Benoit, Canadianprofessional wrestler (born1967)
2007–Hans Sturm, Germanfootballer (born1935)
2007–Natasja Saad, Danishreggae and dance hall artist (born1924)
2009–Roméo LeBlanc, Governor-General ofCanada (born1927)
2012–Lonesome George,Ecuadorean Pinta Islandtortoise (born around1912)
2012–Heino Kruus,Estonian basketball player (born1926)
2012–Miki Roqué, Spanishfootballer (born1988)
2013–Mick Aston, Britisharchaeologist (born1946)
2013–Emilio Colombo, formerPrime Minister of Italy (born1920)
2013–William Hathaway, American politician (born1924)
2014–Ramón José Velásquez, former ActingPresident ofVenezuela (born1916)
2014–Eli Wallach, American actor (born1915)
2015–Walter Browne, Australian-Americanchess player (born1939)
2015–Mario Biaggi, American politician (born1917)
2015–Marva Collins, American educator (born1936)
2016–Bernie Worrell, American musician (born1944)
2017–Mats Johansson, Swedishjournalist (born1951)
2017–Parker Lee McDonald, American jurist (born1924)
2017–Maria Mutagamba, Ugandan economist and politician (born1952)
2017–Nils Nilsson, Swedishice hockey player (born1936)
2018–Frank Heart, American computer engineer (born1929)
2018–Constance Adams, American architect and explorer (born1964)
2018–Stanley Anderson, American actor (born1939)
2018–Darryl N. Johnson, American politician (born1938)
2018–Josip Pirmajer, Slovenianfootballer and manager (born1944)
2019–Jeff Austin, American musician and singer (born1974)
2019–Billy Drago, American actor (born1946)
2019–Steve Dunleavy, Australian-born American journalist (born1938)
2019–Jónas Gómez Gallo, Chilean businessman and politician (born1923)
2019–José Huerta, Peruvian politician (born1948)
2019–Yekaterina Mikhailovna-Demina, Russian military doctor (born1925)
2019–Jörg Stübner, Germanfootballer (born1965)

Observances

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Discovery Day (Newfoundland and Labrador)
National Day ofQuebec
Saint John's Day, day ofmidsummer celebrations in theNorthern Hemisphere
Flag Day (Estonia,Finland)

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