24 Juin

The 24t o Juin is the 175t day o the year (176t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 190 days ti come.

 Events 
 1314 - Battle o Bannockburn: The Scots airmy unner Robert the Bruce defeats the Inglis airmy o Keeng Edward II o Ingland.
 1497 - John Cabot reaches Newfoundland.
 1509 - Henry VIII o Ingland an Catherine o Aragon are crouned.
 1859 - Napoleon III o Fraunce defeats Austrick in the Battle o Solferino.
 1861 - Tennessee secedes frae the Unitit States.
 1902 - The coronation o Edward VII o the Unitit Kinrick is delayed efter he becomes ill wi appendicitis.
 1916 - Warld War I: The Battle o the Somme stairts.
 1939 - Siam is renamed Thailand for the first time.
 1950 - The 1950 FIFA Warld Cup, the first edeetion o the toornament in 12 year, stairts; Hosts Brazil defeat Mexico 4-0 in the openin gemme.
 1963 - The Unitit Kinrick grants Zanzibar internal self-govrenment.
 1981 - The Humber Brig, in Eastren Ingland, opens.
 2002 - The Igandu train disaster in Tanzanie kills 381 fowk.
 2002 - A flood disaster in Shanxi, Cheenae, kills 500 fowk.
 2005 - Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is electit Preses o Iran.
 2007 - Gordon Brown taks ower frae Tony Blair as leader o the Labour Pairty.
 2010 - Julia Gillard becomes the 27t, an first female, Prime Meenister o Australie, replacin Kevin Rudd.
 2010 - John Isner defeats Nicolas Mahut in the langest-ever professional tennis match, at Wimbledon. The decidin set ends 70-68.
 2012 - In the Galapagos Islands Lonesome George, believed tae be the last-survivin example o the Pinta Island tortoise subspecies, dees. His age is estimatit tae range atween his 80s an 109.
 2014 - 2014 FIFA Warld Cup in Brazil: In a gemme in which Uruguay beat Italy 1-0, Luis Suarez is involved in an incident in which he bites Giorgio Chiellini in ane o the biggest controversies o that year's toornament.
 2016 - David Cameron propales his demission as Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick efter 51.9% o voters in the kintra vote tae leave the European Union.
 2017 - A landslide in Xinmo village, Sichuan, Cheenae, kills at least 15 fowk an leaves 93 missin.
 2018 - Saudi Arabie ends its ban on weemen drivin.

 Births 
1254 – Floris V, Coont o Holland (d. 1296)
1542 – John o the Cross, Spaingie meestic an saunt (d. 1591)
1740 – Juan Ignacio Molina, Chilean naituralist (d. 1829)
1741 – Alexander Adam, Scots teacher an writer (d. 1809)
1850 – Herbert Kitchener, Erse field marshal an politeecian, Govrenor-General o Sudan (d. 1916)
1883 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrick-American pheesicist (d. 1964)
1908 – Alfons Rebane, Estonie colonel (d. 1976)
1911 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine racing driver (d. 1995)
1915 – Fred Hoyle, Inglis astronomer (d. 2001)
1927 – Martin Lewis Perl, American pheesicist (d. 2014)
1929 – Carolyn S. Shoemaker, American astronomer
1930 – Claude Chabrol, French film director (d. 2010)
1935 – Pete Hamill, American jurnalist an writer (d. 2020)
1945 – George Pataki, American politeecian, umwhile Govrenor o New York
1946 – Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (d. 1986)
1947 – Clarissa Dickson Wright, Inglis chef, telly personality an barrister (d. 2014)
1953 – William E. Moerner, American chemist an pheesicist
1956 – Owen Paterson, Inglis politeecian, umwhile Secretar o State for Northren Ireland
1958 – Tom Lister, Jr., American actor a profeesional wrestler
1961 – Iain Glen, Scots actor
1978 – Juan Román Riquelme, Argentinian fitbawer
1978 – Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese fitbawer
1986 – Solange Knowles, American sangster
1987 – Lionel Messi, Argentine fitbawer
1992 – David Alaba, Austrick fitbawer
1992 – Stuart Hogg, Scots rugby union player

 Daiths 
1398 – Hongwu Emperor o Cheenae (b. 1328)
1519 – Lucrezia Borgia, Renaissance duchess (b. 1480)
1748 – William Adam, Scots airchitect (b. 1689)
1799 – Dunbar Douglas, 4t Yerl o Selkirk, Scots peer (b. 1722)
1867 – Horatio McCulloch, Scots penter (b. 1805)
1908 – Grover Cleveland, American politeecian, 22nt an 24t Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1837)
1924 – Willie Fernie, Scots gowfer (b. 1855)
1969 – Alex Harley, Scots fitbawer (b. 1936)
1987 – Jackie Gleason, American actor an sangster (b. 1916)
2008 – Leonid Hurwicz, Roushie-American economist an mathemateecian (b. 1917)
2012 – Lonesome George, last-kent survivin Pinta Island tortoise (b. early 20t century)
2013 – Emilio Colombo, Prime meenister o Italy (b. 1920)
2014 – Eli Wallach, American actor (b. 1915)

 Halidays 
 St. John the Baptist's Day (Christianity)
 Naitional Day o Quebec
 Midsummer's Day in some European kintras
 Flag Day (Estonie, Finland)

Category:Days o the year