June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 109 – Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 kilometres (25 miles) north-west of Rome.
- 474 – Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the throne and proclaims himself Emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
- 637 – The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dalriada. It is claimed to be largest battle in the history of Ireland.
- 972 – Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
- 1128 – Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães: forces led by Alfonso I defeat forces led by his mother Teresa of León and her lover Fernando Pérez de Traba. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards "official independence" that will be reached in 1139 after the Battle of Ourique.
- 1314 – First War of Scottish Independence: the Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce, though England did not recognize Scottish independence until 1328 with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.
- 1340 – Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
- 1374 – 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.
- 1497 – John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
- 1509 – Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
- 1535 – The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
- 1571 – Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.
- 1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
- 1604 – Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
- 1622 – Battle of Macau: The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
- 1717 – The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
- 1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.
- 1793 – The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.
- 1813 – Battle of Beaver Dams: a British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
- 1821 – The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
- 1859 – Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
- 1866 – Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
- 1880 – First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
- 1894 – Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
- 1902 – King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
- 1913 – Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
- 1916 – Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.
- 1916 – World War I: the Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
- 1918 – First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
- 1932 – A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
- 1938 – Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
- 1939 – Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the country's third prime minister.
- 1947 – Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
- 1948 – Start of the Berlin Blockade: the Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
- 1949 – The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
- 1957 – In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
- 1963 – The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
- 1981 – 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.
- 1982 – "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
- 1985 – STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completes 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.
- 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
- 2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
- 2010 – John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
- 2012 – The last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies, making the species extinct.
Births
- 1244 – Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1308)
- 1343 – Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373)
- 1386 – John of Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)
- 1485 – Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558)
- 1519 – Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)
- 1533 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester (d. 1588)
- 1535 – Joan of Austria, Princess of Portugal (d. 1573)
- 1542 – John of the Cross, Spanish mystic and poet (d. 1591)
- 1546 – Robert Parsons, English priest (d. 1610)
- 1587 – William Arnold, English-American settler (d. 1675)
- 1663 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (d. 1742)
- 1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757)
- 1694 – Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss theorist (d. 1748)
- 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
- 1774 – Antonio González de Balcarce, Argentine military commander (d. 1819)
- 1774 – François-Nicolas-Benoît Haxo, French general (d. 1838)
- 1777 – John Ross, English naval officer and explorer (d. 1856)
- 1782 – Juan Larrea, Argentine politician and merchant (d. 1847)
- 1795 – Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878)
- 1797 – John Joseph Hughes, Irish-American archbishop (d. 1864)
- 1803 – George James Webb, English composer (d. 1887)
- 1804 – Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
- 1811 – John Archibald Campbell, American jurist (d. 1889)
- 1813 – Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (d. 1887)
- 1813 – Francis Boott, American composer (d. 1904)
- 1821 – Guillermo Rawson, Argentine politician (d. 1890)
- 1825 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1844)
- 1826 – George Goyder, English-Australian surveyor (d. 1898)
- 1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American author (d. 1914)
- 1846 – Samuel Johnson, Nigerian historian and priest (d. 1901)
- 1850 – Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener, English field marshal (d. 1916)
- 1860 – Mercedes of Orléans (d. 1878)
- 1869 – Prince George of Greece and Denmark (d. 1957)
- 1882 – Athanase David, Canadian lawyer, politician, and businessman (d. 1953)
- 1882 – Carl Diem, German sports administrator (d. 1962)
- 1883 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-Americian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
- 1886 – George Shiels, Irish dramatist (d. 1949)
- 1888 – Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect (d. 1964)
- 1893 – Roy O. Disney, American businessman, co-founded The Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
- 1895 – Jack Dempsey, American boxer (d. 1983)
- 1897 – Daniel K. Ludwig, American businessman (d. 1992)
- 1900 – Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945)
- 1901 – Marcel Mule, French saxophonist (d. 2001)
- 1901 – Harry Partch, American composer (d. 1974)
- 1901 – Chuck Taylor, American basketball player and salesman (d. 1969)
- 1904 – Phil Harris, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1995)
- 1906 – Pierre Fournier, French cellist (d. 1986)
- 1906 – Willard Maas, American educator and filmmaker (d. 1971)
- 1907 – Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (d. 1989)
- 1908 – Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942)
- 1908 – Guru Gopinath, Indian dancer (d. 1987)
- 1908 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian military officer (d. 1976)
- 1911 – Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver (d. 1995)
- 1911 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer (d. 2011)
- 1912 – Brian Johnston, English sportscaster (d. 1994)
- 1913 – Gustaaf Deloor, Belgian cyclist (d. 2002)
- 1914 – Pearl Witherington French secret agent (d. 2008)
- 1915 – Fred Hoyle, English astronomer (d. 2001)
- 1916 – William B. Saxbe, American politician (d. 2010)
- 1919 – Al Molinaro, American actor
- 1922 – Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1988)
- 1923 – Margaret Olley, Australian painter (d. 2011)
- 1924 – Brian Bevan, Australian rugby player (d. 1991)
- 1924 – Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician (d. 2008)
- 1924 – Archie Roy, Scottish astronomer and academic
- 1927 – Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 – Claude Chabrol, French director (d. 2010)
- 1930 – William Bernard Ziff, Jr., American publisher (d. 2006)
- 1931 – Billy Casper, American golfer
- 1933 – Sam Jones, American basketball player
- 1934 – Ferdinand Biwersi, German football referee
- 1934 – Jean-Pierre Ferland, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician, and author
- 1935 – Terry Riley, American composer
- 1938 – Lawrence Block, American writer
- 1939 – Michael Gothard, English actor (d. 1992)
- 1939 – HA Schult, German artist
- 1940 – Vittorio Storaro, Italian cinematographer
- 1941 – Erkin Koray, Turkish singer and musician
- 1941 – Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst and novelist
- 1942 – Michele Lee, American actress
- 1942 – Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean politician and engineer, 32nd President of Chile
- 1944 – Jeff Beck, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (The Yardbirds, The Jeff Beck Group, The Honeydrippers, and Beck, Bogert & Appice)
- 1944 – Arthur Brown, English singer (Kingdom Come and The Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
- 1944 – David Mark Berger, American born Israeli weightlifter (d. 1972)
- 1944 – John "Charlie" Whitney, English musician (Family, Axis Point, Streetwalkers)
- 1944 – Chris Wood, English saxophonist (Traffic and Ginger Baker's Air Force) (d. 1983)
- 1945 – Colin Blunstone, English singer-songwriter (The Zombies and Keats)
- 1945 – Wayne Cashman, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1945 – George Pataki, American politician, 53rd Governor of New York
- 1945 – Nora Valsami, Greek actress
- 1946 – David Collenette, Canadian politician
- 1946 – Ellison Onizuka, American astronaut (d. 1986)
- 1946 – Robert Reich, American economist
- 1947 – Mick Fleetwood, English drummer and actor (Fleetwood Mac)
- 1947 – Peter Weller, American actor
- 1948 – Patrick Moraz, Swiss pianist and songwriter (Yes, The Moody Blues, and Refugee)
- 1949 – John Illsley, English singer-songwriter, bassist, and producer (Dire Straits)
- 1950 – Nancy Allen, American actress
- 1950 – Mercedes Lackey, American writer
- 1951 – Leslie Cochran, American activist (d. 2012)
- 1951 – David Rodigan, Germany-English actor and disk jockey
- 1952 – Stephen Pusey, English artist
- 1953 – Ivo Lill, Estonian artist
- 1955 – Edmund Malura, German footballer
- 1955 – Betsy Randle, American actress
- 1956 – Joe Penny, English actor
- 1957 – Astro, English rapper and musician (UB40)
- 1957 – Mark Parkinson, American politician
- 1958 – Kenneth Biros, American murderer (d. 2009)
- 1958 – Jean Charest, Canadian politician
- 1958 – Tom Lister, Jr., American wrestler and actor
- 1958 – Silvio Mondinelli, Italian mountaineer
- 1958 – John Tortorella, American ice hockey coach
- 1958 – Kathy Troccoli, American singer and author
- 1959 – Andy McCluskey, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (The Id, Dalek I Love You, and Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark)
- 1960 – Siedah Garrett, American singer-songwriter (Brand New Heavies)
- 1960 – Karin Pilsäter, Swedish politician
- 1960 – Erik Poppe, Norwegian film director
- 1961 – Dennis Danell, American singer and guitarist (Social Distortion) (d. 2000)
- 1961 – Iain Glen, Scottish actor
- 1961 – Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1961 – Ralph E. Reed, Jr., American activist
- 1961 – Curt Smith, English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer (Tears for Fears and Graduate)
- 1963 – Preki, Serbian-American soccer player and coach
- 1963 – Mike Wieringo, American illustrator (d. 2007)
- 1964 – Gary Suter, American ice hockey player
- 1965 – Uwe Krupp, German ice hockey player
- 1966 – Hope Sandoval, American singer-songwriter and musician (Mazzy Star and Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions)
- 1966 – Adrienne Shelly, American actress and director (d. 2006)
- 1967 – Bill Huard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 – Richard Z. Kruspe, German guitarist (Rammstein and Emigrate)
- 1967 – Janez Lapajne, Slovenian director
- 1967 – John Limniatis, Greek-Canadian footballer
- 1967 – Scott Oden, American writer
- 1967 – Sherry Stringfield, American actress
- 1968 – Alaa Abdelnaby, Egyptian-American basketball player
- 1969 – Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian soprano
- 1970 – Glenn Medeiros, American singer-songwriter
- 1970 – Bernardo Sassetti, Portuguese pianist, composer, and educator (d. 2012)
- 1971 – Ji Jin Hee, South Korean actor
- 1971 – Christopher Showerman, American actor
- 1972 – Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
- 1972 – Denis Žvegelj, Slovenian rower
- 1973 – Alexander Beyer, German actor
- 1974 – Chris Guccione American baseball umpire
- 1974 – Ruffa Gutierrez, Filipino actress and model
- 1975 – Carla Gallo, American actress
- 1975 – Marek Malik, Czech ice hockey player
- 1975 – Federico Pucciariello, Argentine-Italian rugby player
- 1976 – Louisa Leaman, English writer
- 1976 – Brock Olivo, American football player
- 1977 – Dimosthenis Dikoudis, Greek basketball player
- 1977 – Jeff Farmer, Australian footballer
- 1977 – Cas Jansen, Dutch actor
- 1978 – Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer
- 1978 – Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
- 1978 – Ariel Pink, American singer-songwriter and musician
- 1978 – Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
- 1978 – Luis García Sanz, Spanish footballer
- 1978 – Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist and songwriter (Nightwish, Brother Firetribe, Altaria, and Barilari)
- 1979 – Mindy Kaling, American actress and producer
- 1979 – Petra Němcová, Czech model, author, and philanthropist
- 1979 – Craig Shergold, English internet folklore subject
- 1980 – Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
- 1980 – Liane Balaban, Canadian actress
- 1980 – Nina Dübbers, German tennis player
- 1980 – Andrew Jones, Australian race car driver
- 1980 – Minka Kelly, American actress
- 1982 – Clint Bajada, Maltese television and radio host
- 1982 – Kevin Nolan, English footballer
- 1982 – Mark Penney, Canadian director
- 1982 – Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1983 – Rebecca Cooke, English swimmer
- 1983 – John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino actor
- 1983 – Gianni Munari, Italian footballer
- 1984 – Andrea Raggi, Italian footballer
- 1984 – J. J. Redick, American basketball player
- 1985 – Diego Alves Carreira, Brazilian footballer
- 1985 – Kyle Searles, American actor
- 1985 – Yukina Shirakawa, Japanese model
- 1986 – Stuart Broad, English cricketer
- 1986 – Phil Hughes, American baseball player
- 1986 – Solange Knowles, American singer-songwriter and actress
- 1987 – Serdar Güneş, Turkish footballer
- 1987 – Craig Henderson, New Zealand footballer
- 1987 – Arturo Lupoli, Italian footballer
- 1987 – Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
- 1988 – Nichkhun, Thai singer, dancer, and actor (2PM)
- 1988 – Micah Richards, English footballer
- 1990 – Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990 – Richard Sukuta-Pasu, German footballer
- 1991 – Rie Kitahara, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
- 1998 – Coy Stewart, American actor
Deaths
- 238 – Maximinus Thrax, Roman Emperor (b. 173)
- 803 – Higbald of Lindisfarne, English bishop
- 1314 – Gilbert de Clare, 8th Earl of Gloucester, English military commander (b. 1291)
- 1314 – Robert de Clifford, 1st Baron de Clifford, English soldier, Lord Warden of the Marches (b. 1274)
- 1398 – Hongwu Emperor of China, founder of the Ming Dynasty (b. 1328)
- 1439 – Frederick IV, Duke of Austria (b. 1382)
- 1519 – Lucrezia Borgia, Italian wife of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (b. 1480)
- 1520 – Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)
- 1604 – Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, English peer and courtier (b. 1550)
- 1637 – Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
- 1643 – John Hampden, English politician (b. 1595)
- 1766 – Adrien Maurice de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678)
- 1778 – Pieter Burman the Younger, Dutch philologist (b. 1714)
- 1803 – Matthew Thornton, Irish-American politician, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)
- 1817 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician (b. 1734)
- 1835 – Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician (b. 1769)
- 1894 – Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (b. 1837)
- 1908 – Grover Cleveland, American politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (b. 1837)
- 1909 – Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
- 1922 – Walther Rathenau, German industrialist, politician, and writer, Foreign Minister of Germany (b. 1867)
- 1931 – Otto Mears, Russian-American railroad builder and entrepreneur (b. 1840)
- 1931 – Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1880)
- 1935 – Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1890)
- 1946 – Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
- 1947 – Emil Seidel, American politician, Mayor of Milwaukee (b. 1864)
- 1968 – Tony Hancock, English comedian and actor (b. 1924)
- 1976 – Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1883)
- 1977 – André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
- 1978 – Robert Charroux, French writer (b. 1909)
- 1984 – Clarence Campbell, Canadian 3rd president of the National Hockey League (b. 1905)
- 1987 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and singer (b. 1916)
- 1989 – Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1937)
- 1991 – Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-American novelist (b. 1917)
- 1991 – Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (b. 1899)
- 1997 – Don Hutson, American football player (b. 1913)
- 1997 – Brian Keith, American actor (b. 1921)
- 2000 – Vera Atkins, Romanian-English intelligence officer (b. 1908)
- 2000 – Rodrigo Bueno, Argentine singer-songwriter {b. 1973}
- 2000 – David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
- 2002 – Pierre Werner, Luxembourgian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
- 2003 – Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (b. 1987)
- 2004 – Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter and author (b. 1957)
- 2005 – Yedidia Shofet, Iranian rabbi (b. 1908)
- 2005 – Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
- 2006 – Patsy Ramsey, American mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956)
- 2007 – Byron Baer, American politician (b. 1929)
- 2007 – Chris Benoit, Canadian wrestler (b. 1967)
- 2007 – Derek Dougan, Irish footballer (b. 1938)
- 2007 – Natasja Saad, Danish rapper and singer (b. 1974)
- 2008 – Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1919)
- 2008 – Ira Tucker, American singer (The Dixie Hummingbirds) (b. 1925)
- 2009 – Roméo LeBlanc, Canadian journalist and politician, 25th Governor General of Canada (b. 1927)
- 2009 – Ed Thomas, American educator and football coach (b. 1951)
- 2011 – Tomislav Ivić, Croatian footballer and manager (b. 1933)
- 2012 – Darrel Akerfelds, American baseball player (b. 1962)
- 2012 – Gad Beck, German educator, author, and Holocaust survivor (b. 1923)
- 2012 – Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Jean Cox, American tenor (b. 1922)
- 2012 – Franz Crass, German singer (b. 1928)
- 2012 – Youssef Dawoud, Egyptian actor (b. 1938)
- 2012 – Heino Kruus, Estonian basketball player (b. 1926)
- 2012 – Ted Luckenbill, American basketball player (b. 1939)
- 2012 – Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (b. 1988)
- 2012 – Ann C. Scales, American lawyer, educator, and activist (b. 1952)
- 2012 – Rudolf Schmid, German bishop (b. 1914)
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