Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 24
This is a list of selected June 24 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Robert Bruce addressing his troops at the Battle of Bannockburn -
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Fragment of "La Batalla de Carabobo", by Martín Tovar y Tovar -
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Humber Bridge -
Julia Gillard
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Manila Cathedral
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (Christianity); | refimprove |
| Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec, Canada; | refimprove section |
| Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821); | refimprove section |
| 1128 – Alfonso I fought the Battle of São Mamede, the first step toward Portuguese independence from Galicia. | no footnotes |
| 1535 – Count Franz von Waldeck took Münster from the Anabaptists, ending the Münster rebellion. | needs more footnotes |
| 1571 – Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi established a council to govern the city of Manila, now the capital of the Philippines. | POTD for 2021 |
| 1596 – Led by Cornelis de Houtman, the first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reached Banten on Java. | date not in either article |
| 1894 – Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio fatally stabbed Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic, after Carnot delivered a speech at a public banquet in Lyon. | refimprove |
| 1932 – A group of military and civilians engineered a bloodless coup in Siam, ending the absolute rule of the Chakri Dynasty. | essay |
| 1945 – The Soviet Army held a victory parade in Moscow to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. | refimprove |
| 1947 – In one of the first widely reported unidentified flying object sightings in the United States, businessman and pilot Kenneth Arnold saw nine luminous disks in the form of saucers flying above the state of Washington near Mount Rainier. | multiple issues |
| 1948 – Cold War: The Soviet Union blocked access to the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin, cutting off all rail and road routes going into Soviet-controlled territory in Germany. | refimprove section |
| 1957 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roth v. United States that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. | needs more footnotes |
| 1981 – The Humber Bridge opened, connecting the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire in England, at the time the longest single-span suspension bridge. | refimprove section |
| 1982 – British Airways Flight 9 flew into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Indonesia's Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four of its engines. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 474 – Western Roman emperor Glycerius, who was not recognized by his Eastern counterpart Leo I, was forced to abdicate.
- 1314 – In the decisive battle of the First War of Scottish Independence, Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated English troops under Edward II near Bannockburn, Scotland.
- 1340 – Hundred Years' War: The English fleet commanded by Edward III almost totally destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of Sluys.
- 1622 – Dutch–Portuguese War: An outnumbered Portuguese force repelled a Dutch attack in the Battle of Macau, the only major military engagement that was fought between two European powers on the Chinese mainland.
- 1717 – The first Grand Lodge of Freemasonry, the Premier Grand Lodge of England, was founded in London.
- 1939 – The first of the Thai cultural mandates was issued, officially changing the country's name from Siam to Thailand.
- 1940 – Second World War: The British Army carried out Operation Collar, its first commando raid into German-occupied France.
- 1943 – An attempt by white U.S. Army military police to arrest black servicemen at a pub in Bamber Bridge, England, turned into a firefight, leaving one dead and seven injured.
- 1973 – A fire was started at the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., causing 32 deaths.
- 1994 – A United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane County, Washington, killing all four crew members, and later providing a case study on the importance of compliance with safety regulations.
- 2010 – Julia Gillard was sworn in as the first female prime minister of Australia after incumbent Kevin Rudd declined to contest a leadership spill in the Labor Party.
- Born/died this day: | William Arnold |b|1587| Mustafa I |b|1591| Edward de Vere |d|1604| Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui |b|1694| Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens |b|1704| Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener |b|1850| Carolyn S. Shoemaker |b|1929| Minor White |d|1976| V. V. Giri |d|1980| Rodrigo |d|2000
Notes
- Miller v. California appears on June 21, so Roth v. U.S. should not appear in the same year
"O Canada"
- 1374 – An outbreak of dancing mania, in which crowds of people danced themselves to exhaustion, began in Aachen (present-day Germany) before spreading to other cities and countries.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Led by Napoleon, the French Grande Armée crossed the Neman, beginning their invasion of Russia.
- 1880 – "O Canada" (audio featured), the present-day national anthem of Canada, was first performed in Quebec City during a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day banquet.
- 1937 – The U.S. Navy's first two fast battleships, North Carolina and Washington of the North Carolina class, were ordered from the New York and Philadelphia Naval Shipyards, respectively.
- 2010 – John Isner defeated Nicolas Mahut at the Wimbledon Championships, concluding the longest match in tennis history, which lasted 11 hours and 5 minutes over three days.
- Ernst Heinrich Weber (b. 1795)
- Matthew Thornton (d. 1803)
- Lionel Messi (b. 1987)