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

## Daiths

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