Title: June 24 Content: == Events == === Up to 1900 === * 79 - Titus becomes Roman Emperor after the previous day's death of his father, Vespasian. * 109 - Roman Emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometers northwest of Rome. * 972 - Battle of Cedynia: First documented victory of Polish forces takes place. * 1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães. Portuguese forces led by Afonso 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" in 1143. * 1230 - The Siege of Jaén starts in the context of the Spanish Recoquista. * 1314 – End of the Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce beat Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence. * 1340 - Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys - The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English fleet commanded personally by King Edward III of England. * 1374 – A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion. * 1441 – Eton College is founded. * 1497 – John Cabot lands on North America in Newfoundland; first European discovery of the region since the Vikings. * 1497 – Cornish rebels Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London * 1509 – Henry VIII is crowned King of England. * 1534 – Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island. * 1535 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded. * 1571 - Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila. * 1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java). * 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 capture Macau. * 1662 – The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macao. * 1664 – The colony of New Jersey is founded. * 1692 – Kingston, Jamaica is founded. * 1779 - American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins. * 1793 – First republican constitution in France adopted. * 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins. * 1813 - Battle of Beaver Dams: A British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army. * 1821 – Battle of Carabobo: Venezuela gains total independence from Spain. * 1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in northern Italy. * 1861 – Tennessee becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the US. * 1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. * 1894 – The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years. === 1901 2000 === * 1901 – First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens. * 1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation. * 1910 – Japan invades Korea. * 1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria. * 1913 – Joseph Cook becomes the 6th Prime Minister of Australia. * 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes first movie star to get million dollar contract. * 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto. * 1918 – The giant cannon Big Bertha begins bombardments on Paris * 1932 – A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand). * 1938 - Pieces of meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it explodes in the Earth's atmosphere, lands near Chicora, Pennsylvania. * 1939 - Siam is renamed Thailand for the first time, by Prime Minister Plaek Pibulsonggram. * 1940 – France and Italy sign an armistice. * 1941 – Government of briefly independent Lithuania conducts its first meeting under prime minister Juozas Ambrazevičius * 1945 – The U.S.S.R. capture the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg. * 1946 – Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France * 1947 – First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, USA, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers. * 1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible. * 1957 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment. * 1963 – Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK. * 1967 - The UK's worst caving disaster kills 6 people at Mossdale Caverns. * 1974 – The UPC label is used for the first time to ring up purchases at a supermarket. * 1975 – An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die. * 1981 – For what would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years, the Humber Bridge, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire, opens. * 1982 – British Airways flight 9 flies into volcanic ash erupting from Mount Galunggung in Indonesia, causing all four of its engines to fail. * 1982 - Jean-Loup Chrétien becomes the first French person to go into space. * 1983 – Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth. * 1983 – Yasser Arafat banned from Damascus. * 1989 - Jiang Zemin becomes the General 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 a mailbomb from the Unabomber. * 1995 - South Africa wins the Rugby Union World Cup in front of its home crowd. Nelson Mandela famously hands the trophy to team captain Francois Pienaar. * 1996 – Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the 200 metres with a time of 19.66 seconds * 1999 – The guitar with which Eric Clapton recorded Layla is sold at auction for the astounding price of $497,500. === From 2001 === * 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281 people. * 2003 - Air France's last Concorde flight takes place. * 2004 - In the state of New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional. * 2005 – Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is elected to his first term as President of Iran. * 2007 – Before becoming Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (on June 27) Gordon Brown succeeds Tony Blair as leader of the Labour Party. * 2010 – Julia Gillard becomes the first female Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding Kevin Rudd. * 2010 – The longest match in the history of professional tennis ends at Wimbledon, after two days. John Isner beats Nicolas Mahut 70-68 in the deciding set. * 2012 - Lonesome George, the last-known surviving Pinta Island tortoise, dies in the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, aged around 100. His sub-species is therefore considered to be extinct. * 2012 - Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood is declared the winner of the previous week's Presidential election in Egypt. * 2014 - Albania officially becomes an EU candidate country. * 2014 - Uruguayan footballer Luis Suárez is involved in a biting controversy at the 2014 FIFA World Cup when cameras show him biting Italy's Giorgio Chiellini during a match. He is suspended from competitive games for four months. * 2016 - David Cameron announces his intention to resign as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom after 51.9% of British voters decided to leave the European Union in a referendum. * 2017 - 15 people are killed and 93 are missing after a landslide hits Xinmo village in Sichuan, People's Republic of China. == Births == === Up to 1800 === * 1244 Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (died 1308) * 1293 Joan the Lame, Queen of France (died 1348) * 1314 Philippa of Hainaut, Queen Consort of Edward III of England (died 1369) * 1343 Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (died 1373) * 1386 John of Capistrano, Italian saint (died 1456) * 1413 John IV, Marquess of Montferrat (died 1464) * 1485 Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (died 1558) * 1519 Theodore Beza, French theologian and reformer (died 1605) * 1532 Edzard II, Count of East Frisia (died 1599) * 1532 William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (died 1592) * 1532 Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (died 1588) * 1535 Joan of Spain, Spanish-born Queen Consort of Portugal (died 1573) * 1542 Saint John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite friar and poet (died 1591) * 1661 Hachisuka Tsunanori, Japanese daimyo (died 1730) * 1694 Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss theorist (died 1748) * 1704 Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French aristocrat (died 1771) * 1740 Juan Ignacio Molina, Chilean naturalist (died 1829) * 1755 Anarchasis Clats, Prussian-born French revolutionary (died 1794) * 1767 Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries, French geographer, author and translator (died 1846) * 1770 Albrecht Berblinger, German inventor (died 1829) * 1774 Antonio González de Balcarce, Argentine military commander (died 1819) * 1777 John Ross, naval officer and explorer (died 1856) * 1782 Juan Larrea, Argentine politician and merchant (died 1847) * 1784 Juan Antonio Lavalleja, Uruguayan revolutionary and political figure (died 1853) * 1795 Ernst Heinrich Weber, anatomist and physiologist (died 1878) === 1801 1900 === * 1803 George James Webb, composer (died 1887) * 1804 Willard Richards, American religious leader (died 1854) * 1811 John Archibald Campbell, American jurist (died 1889) * 1813 Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (died 1887) * 1818 Charles Alexander, Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (died 1901) * 1821 Guillermo Rawson, Argentine politician (died 1890) * 1825 Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1844) * 1826 George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (died 1898) * 1833 Gustaf Akerhielm, Prime Minister of Sweden (died 1900) * 1838 Jan Matejko, Polish painter (died 1893) * 1842 Ambrose Bierce, American writer (died 1914) * 1850 Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, British general, original Order of Merit member (died 1916) * 1852 Victor Adler, Austrian politician (died 1918) * 1860 Mercedes of Orléans, Queen of Spain (died 1878) * 1869 Prince George of Greece and Denmark (died 1957) * 1869 Caroline Furness, American astronomer (died 1936) * 1880 Oswald Veblen, American mathematician (died 1960) * 1882 Carl Diem, German sports scientist and Olympic official (died 1962) * 1883 Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born American physicist (died 1964) * 1883 Frank Venner, American runner (died 1966) * 1884 Frank Waller, American athlete (died 1941) * 1888 Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (died 1964) * 1893 Roy O. Disney, American businessman (died 1971) * 1895 Jack Dempsey, American boxer (died 1983) * 1898 Karl Selter, Estonian politician (died 1958) === 1901 1925 === * 1901 Harry Partch, composer (died 1974) * 1906 Pierre Fournier, French cellist (died 1986) * 1907 Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (died 1989) * 1908 Hugo Distler, German composer (died 1942) * 1908 Guru Gopinath Indian classical dancer (died 1987) * 1908 Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (died 1976) * 1909 Jean Deslauriers, Canadian conductor, violinist and composer (died 1978) * 1909 William Penney, English mathematician (died 1991) * 1909 David Rose, composer, musician (died 1990) * 1911 Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (died 1995) * 1911 Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer and physicist (died 2011) * 1912 Mary Wesley, British writer (died 2002) * 1913 Gustaaf Detoor, Belgian cyclist (died 2002) * 1914 Robert Aickman, writer (died 1981) * 1915 Fred Hoyle, cosmologist and science fiction writer (died 2001) * 1916 William B. Saxbe, 70th United States Attorney General (died 2010) * 1917 David Easton, Canadian political scientist (died 2014) * 1919 Al Molinaro, American actor (died 2015) * 1922 Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra) (died 1988) * 1922 Jack Carter, American comedian and actor (died 2015) * 1923 Margaret Olley, Australian artist (died 2011) * 1923 Marc Riboud, French photographer * 1923 Cesare Romiti, Italian businessman and economist * 1923 Yves Bonnefoy, French poet (died 2016) * 1924 Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician (died 2008) === 1926 1950 === * 1926 Walter Hirrlinger, German politician (died 2018) * 1927 Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist (died 2014) * 1927 James B. Edwards, American politician, 110th Governor of South Carolina and 3rd United States Secretary of Energy (died 2014) * 1928 M. S. Viswanathan, Indian film score composer (died 2015) * 1928 Yvan Delporte, Belgian comics writer (died 2007) * 1928 Wolfgang Altenburg, German general * 1929 Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer * 1930 Claude Chabrol, French movie director (died 2010) * 1930 Dave Creighton, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2017) * 1931 Billy Casper, American golfer (died 2015) * 1933 Sam Jones, American basketball player * 1937 Anita Desai, American novelist * 1938 Lawrence Block, American writer * 1938 Albufaz Elchibey, former President of Azerbaijan * 1940 Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer * 1940 Augusto Fantozzi, Italian lawyer and politician (died 2019) * 1941 Charles Whitman, American murderer (died 1966) * 1942 Colin Groves, Australian primatologist (died 2017) * 1942 Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, former President of Chile * 1942 Michele Lee, actress * 1944 Jeff Beck, British guitarist (Yardbirds) * 1944 Chris Wood, British musician (died 1983) * 1945 Colin Blunstone, American musician (The Zombies) * 1945 George Pataki, former Governor of New York * 1945 Betty Stöve, Dutch tennis player * 1946 Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (died 1986) * 1946 Robert Reich, American politician and political commentator * 1947 Clarissa Dickson Wright, English cookery writer and broadcaster (died 2014) * 1947 Mick Fleetwood, British musician (Fleetwood Mac) * 1949 Betty Jackson, English fashion designer (born in Lancashire) * 1949 John Illsey, English guitarist (Dire Straits) * 1949 Brigitte Mohnhaupt, German militant, member of the Red 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 === * 1951 Ivar Formo, Norwegian cross-country skier (died 2006) * 1951 Raelene Boyle, Australian athlete * 1951 Simon Rouse, English actor * 1952 Dianna Melrose, English diplomat * 1953 William E. Moerner, American chemist and physicist * 1953 Garry Shider, musician (P Funk) * 1954 Mark Edmondson, Australian tennis player * 1956 Owen Paterson, British politician * 1956 Joe Penny, American actor * 1957 Astro, English rapper (UB40) * 1957 Mark Parkinson, 45th Governor of Kansas * 1958 Jean Charest, Quebec politician * 1959 Andy McCluskey, British singer, songwriter and musician * 1960 Elish Angiolini, Scottish judge * 1960 Trisha Meili, writer * 1961 Iain Glen, Scottish actor * 1961 Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player * 1963 Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (died 2007) * 1963 Preki, Serbian- American footballer * 1966 Adrienne Shelly, American actress (died 2006) * 1966 Milena Bertolini, Italian footballer and coach * 1967 Richard Kruspe- Bernstein, German guitarist (Rammstein) * 1967 Sherry Stringfield, American actress * 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, Australian cyclist * 1973 Alexander Beyer, German actor * 1973 Jere Lehtinen, Finnish ice hockey player * 1974 Chris Guccione, American baseball player and umpire * 1975 Marek Malik, Czech ice hockey player * 1975 Federico Pucciarello, Argentine-Italian rugby player === From 1976 === * 1977 Dimos Dikoudis, Greek basketball player * 1978 Luis García, Spanish footballer * 1978 Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer * 1978 Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer * 1978 Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish) * 1979 Petra Nemcova, Czech model * 1979 Dafydd Jones, Welsh rugby player * 1980 Cicinho, Brazilian footballer * 1980 Minka Kelly, American actress * 1980 John Bryant Davila, American actor * 1981 Siddharth Nair, cartoonist and writer * 1982 Kevin Nolan, English footballer * 1982 Christian Montero, Costa Rican footballer * 1982 Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player * 1983 Rebecca Cooke, English swimmer * 1985 Diego Alves, Brazilian footballer * 1986 Stuart Broad, English cricketer * 1986 Solange Knowles, American actress and singer * 1987 LiSA, Japanese singer and musician * 1987 Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer * 1988 Micah Richards, English footballer * 1991 Rie Kitahara, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48) * 1992 David Alaba, Austrian footballer * 1992 Raven Goodwin, American actress * 1992 Stuart Hogg, Scottish rugby player * 1992 Sam Morrison, Welsh cyclist * 1993 Piero Barone, Italian singer (Il Volo) * 1993 Beanie Feldstein, American actress == Deaths == === Up to 1950 === * 238 Maximius Thrax, Roman Emperor (born 173) * 803 Higbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne * 1195 Albert I, Margrave of Meissen (born 1158) * 1314 Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester (born 1291) * 1314 Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford (born 1274) * 1398 Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty (born 1328) * 1439 Frederick IV of Austria, Regent of Tyrol and Further Austria * 1519 Lucrezia Borgia, duchess of Ferrara (born 1480) * 1520 Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (born 1489) * 1564 Rani Durgavati, Indian queen (born 1524) * 1604 Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, hereditary Lord Great Chamberlain of England (born 1550) * 1637 Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (born 1580) * 1766 Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier and politician (born 1678) * 1803 Matthew Thornton, signer of the US Declaration of Independence (born 1714) * 1817 Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician (born 1769) * 1835 Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (born 1769) * 1882 Joachim Raff, German-Swiss composer (born 1822) * 1894 Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (born 1837) * 1908 Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (born 1837) * 1909 Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (born 1849) * 1922 Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1867, assassinated) * 1931 Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (born 1840) * 1931 Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese Communist politician (born 1880) * 1935 Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer-songwriter (born 1890) * 1947 Emil Seidel, American politician and Mayor of Milwaukee (born 1864) === From 1951 === * 1953 George Herbert Walker, grandfather of US President George H. W. Bush (born 1875) * 1968 Tony Hancock, British comedian (born 1924) * 1984 Clarence Campbell, Canadian president of the National Hockey League (born 1905) * 1987 Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (born 1916) * 1988 Marta Abba, Italian actress (b. 1900) * 1989 Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (born 1937) * 1993 Archie Williams, American sprinter (b. 1915) * 2000 Vera Atkins, Special Operations Executive intelligence officer (born 1908) * 2000 Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine singer-songwriter (born 1973) * 2002 Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (born 1913) * 2004 Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (born 1957) * 2007 Nancy Benoit, American professional wrestler (born 1964) * 2007 Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (born 1967) * 2007 Hans Sturm, German footballer (born 1935) * 2007 Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dance hall artist (born 1924) * 2009 Roméo LeBlanc, Governor- General of Canada (born 1927) * 2012 Lonesome George, Ecuadorean Pinta Island tortoise (born around 1912) * 2012 Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player (born 1926) * 2012 Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (born 1988) * 2013 Mick Aston, British archaeologist (born 1946) * 2013 Emilio Colombo, former Prime Minister of Italy (born 1920) * 2013 William Hathaway, American politician (born 1924) * 2014 Ramón José Velásquez, former Acting President of Venezuela (born 1916) * 2014 Eli Wallach, American actor (born 1915) * 2015 Walter Browne, Australian-American chess player (born 1939) * 2015 Mario Biaggi, American politician (born 1917) * 2015 Marva Collins, American educator (born 1936) * 2016 Bernie Worrell, American musician (born 1944) * 2017 Mats Johansson, Swedish journalist (born 1951) * 2017 Parker Lee McDonald, American jurist (born 1924) * 2017 Maria Mutagamba, Ugandan economist and politician (born 1952) * 2017 Nils Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player (born 1936) * 2018 Frank Heart, American computer engineer (born 1929) * 2018 Constance Adams, American architect and explorer (born 1964) * 2018 Stanley Anderson, American actor (born 1939) * 2018 Darryl N. Johnson, American politician (born 1938) * 2018 Josip Pirmajer, Slovenian footballer and manager (born 1944) * 2019 Jeff Austin, American musician and singer (born 1974) * 2019 Billy Drago, American actor (born 1946) * 2019 Steve Dunleavy, Australian-born American journalist (born 1938) * 2019 Jónas Gómez Gallo, Chilean businessman and politician (born 1923) * 2019 José Huerta, Peruvian politician (born 1948) * 2019 Yekaterina Mikhailovna-Demina, Russian military doctor (born 1925) * 2019 Jörg Stübner, German footballer (born 1965) == Observances == * Discovery Day (Newfoundland and Labrador) * National Day of Quebec * Saint John's Day, day of midsummer celebrations in the Northern Hemisphere * Flag Day (Estonia, Finland) Category:Days of the year