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| June 24th, 2008 (June 24 2008) | Death | Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (born in 1919) | |
| June 24th, 1978 (June 24 1978) | Birth | Luis Garcia, Spanish footballer | |
| June 24th, 1978 (June 24 1978) | Birth | Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer | |
| June 24th, 1978 (June 24 1978) | Birth | Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer | |
| June 24th, 1978 (June 24 1978) | Birth | Ariel Pink, American musician | |
| June 24th, 1978 (June 24 1978) | Birth | Juan Roman Riquelme, Argentine footballer | |
| June 24th, 1978 (June 24 1978) | Birth | Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish) | |
| June 24th, 1978 (June 24 1978) | Death | Robert Charroux, French writer (born in 1909) | |
| June 24th, 1968 (June 24 1968) | Death | Tony Hancock, British comedian (born in 1924) | |
| June 24th, 1958 (June 24 1958) | Birth | Jean Charest, Premier of Quebec | |
| June 24th, 1958 (June 24 1958) | Birth | John Tortorella, American ice hockey coach | |
| June 24th, 1948 (June 24 1948) | Event | Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible. | |
| June 24th, 1948 (June 24 1948) | Birth | Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player (Yes) | |
| June 24th, 1938 (June 24 1938) | Event | A 450 metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania. | |
| June 24th, 1938 (June 24 1938) | Birth | Lawrence Block, American writer | |
| June 24th, 1928 (June 24 1928) | Event | With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada. | |
| June 24th, 1918 (June 24 1918) | Event | First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto. | |
| June 24th, 1908 (June 24 1908) | Birth | Hugo Distler, German composer (died in 1942) | |
| June 24th, 1908 (June 24 1908) | Birth | Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (d 1987) | |
| June 24th, 1908 (June 24 1908) | Birth | Alfons Rebane, Estonian military officer (died in 1976) | |
| June 24th, 1908 (June 24 1908) | Death | Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (heart failure) (born in 1837) | Grover Cleveland Quotes |
| June 24th, 1888 (June 24 1888) | Birth | Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (died in 1964) | |
| June 24th, 1778 (June 24 1778) | Death | Pieter Burmann the Younger, Dutch philologist (born in 1714) | Philo Quotes |
| June 24th, 1748 (June 24 1748) | Event | The Kingswood School is opened by John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley in Bristol. The school later moved to Bath. | John Wesley Quotes |
| June 24th, 1398 (June 24 1398) | Death | Hongwu Emperor of China (born in 1328) | |
| June 24th, 1128 (June 24 1128) | Event | Battle of Sao Mamede, near Guimaraes:Portuguese forces led by Alfonso I defeat his mother D. Teresa and D. Fernao Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" in 1139, after the Battle of Ourique. | |
