June 24 Events |
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| June 24th, 2007 (June 24 2007) | Event | The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours. | |
| June 24th, 2004 (June 24 2004) | Event | In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional. | |
| June 24th, 2002 (June 24 2002) | Event | The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history. | |
| June 24th, 1995 (June 24 1995) | Event | South Africa defeats New Zealand in the 1995 Rugby World Cup. The 1995 World cup is the first major sporting event in South Africa after Apartheid. | |
| June 24th, 1994 (June 24 1994) | Event | A United States Air Force B-52 aircraft crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base, killing all four members of its crew. | |
| June 24th, 1993 (June 24 1993) | Event | 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. | |
| June 24th, 1985 (June 24 1985) | Event | STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completed its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist. | |
| June 24th, 1983 (June 24 1983) | Event | Space Shuttle program: STS-7: Sally Ride, the first female American astronaut, returns to earth. | |
| June 24th, 1982 (June 24 1982) | Event | British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as the Jakarta incident, flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines. | |
| June 24th, 1981 (June 24 1981) | Event | The Humber Bridge is opened to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It would be the world s longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years. | |
| June 24th, 1975 (June 24 1975) | Event | An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die. | John F. Kennedy Quotes |
| June 24th, 1963 (June 24 1963) | Event | Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the United Kingdom. | |
| June 24th, 1957 (June 24 1957) | Event | The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States. | |
| June 24th, 1949 (June 24 1949) | Event | The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd. | |
| 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, 1947 (June 24 1947) | Event | Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington. | |
| June 24th, 1945 (June 24 1945) | Event | The Moscow Victory Parade takes place. | |
| June 24th, 1940 (June 24 1940) | Event | France and Italy sign an armistice. | |
| June 24th, 1938 (June 24 1938) | Event | A 450 metric ton meteorite strikes the earth in an empty field near Chicora, Pennsylvania. | |
| June 24th, 1932 (June 24 1932) | Event | A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand). | |
| 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, 1916 (June 24 1916) | Event | Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract. | |
| June 24th, 1916 (June 24 1916) | Event | World War I: The Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line. | |
| June 24th, 1913 (June 24 1913) | Event | Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria. | |
| June 24th, 1902 (June 24 1902) | Event | King Edward VII develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation. | |
| June 24th, 1901 (June 24 1901) | Event | First exhibition of Pablo Picasso s work opens. | Pablo Picasso Quotes |
| June 24th, 1894 (June 24 1894) | Event | Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio. | Geronimo Quotes |
| June 24th, 1880 (June 24 1880) | Event | First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congres national des Canadiens-Francais. | |
| June 24th, 1859 (June 24 1859) | Event | Battle of Solferino: (Battle of the Three Sovereigns). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy. | |
| June 24th, 1821 (June 24 1821) | Event | The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain. | |
| June 24th, 1813 (June 24 1813) | Event | Battle of Beaver Dams : A British, and Indian joint force defeat the U.S Army. | |
| June 24th, 1812 (June 24 1812) | Event | Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon s Grande Armee crosses the Neman River beginning his invasion of Russia. | |
| June 24th, 1794 (June 24 1794) | Event | Bowdoin College is founded. | |
| June 24th, 1793 (June 24 1793) | Event | The first republican constitution in France is adopted. | |
| 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, 1717 (June 24 1717) | Event | The Grand Lodge of England, the first Freemasonic Grand Lodge (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England. | |
| June 24th, 1692 (June 24 1692) | Event | Kingston, Jamaica is founded. | |
| June 24th, 1664 (June 24 1664) | Event | The colony of New Jersey is founded. | |
| June 24th, 1662 (June 24 1662) | Event | The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau. | |
| June 24th, 1597 (June 24 1597) | Event | The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java). | |
| June 24th, 1571 (June 24 1571) | Event | Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines, is founded by Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. | |
| June 24th, 1535 (June 24 1535) | Event | The Anabaptist state of Munster is conquered and disbanded. | |
| June 24th, 1509 (June 24 1509) | Event | Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England. | |
| June 24th, 1497 (June 24 1497) | Event | John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings. | |
| June 24th, 1497 (June 24 1497) | Event | Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London. | |
| June 24th, 1441 (June 24 1441) | Event | Eton College is founded. | |
| June 24th, 1374 (June 24 1374) | Event | 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. | |
| June 24th, 1340 (June 24 1340) | Event | Hundred Years War: Battle of Sluys: The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by Edward III of England. | |
| June 24th, 1314 (June 24 1314) | Event | First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory of the Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce. Scotland regains its independence in the aftermath of this battle. | |
| 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. | |
| June 24th, 0972 (June 24 0972) | Event | Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place. | |
