Notable Historical Events on June 24th
June 24th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
451 |
10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet |
843 |
Vikings destroy Nantes |
972 |
Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces; Mieszko I of Poland decisively defeated Odo I of Lusatia |
1128 |
Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa |
1298 |
Rindfleisch Persecutions - Jews of Ifhauben, Austria massacred |
1314 |
Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England |
1322 |
Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time |
1340 |
In the Hundred Years War, English fleet destroys the French at the battle of Sluys |
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. |
1396 |
Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reach Vienna |
1397 |
Sultan Bajezid I releases captured crusaders for ransom |
1441 |
Eton College founded by Henry VI |
1472 |
Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow |
1497 |
John Cabot claims Eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia) |
1497 |
Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London. |
1522 |
Battle of La Bicocca: a combined French and Venetian was decisively defeated by a Spanish-Imperial and Papal army |
1522 |
Portuguese Antonio de Brita signs treaty island of Ternate Molukkas |
1527 |
Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking Catholic possessions |
1529 |
Zurich & catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel |
1535 |
Anabaptists Protestants conquered & disbanded |
1535 |
Hessische troops occupy Munster |
1540 |
English King Henry VIII commands his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves, to leave the court |
1572 |
5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged |
1597 |
Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java |
1610 |
Battle of Klushino: King Sigismund II's Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army beats Russia & Sweden |
1619 |
Tsar Michail's father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow |
1648 |
Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews & 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine |
1658 |
French fleet recaptures Duinkerk |
1662 |
Dutch invasion of Macau repulsed (Macau Day) |
1664 |
The colony of New Jersey is founded. |
1690 |
King William III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland [OS=June 14] |
1692 |
Kingston, Jamaica, founded |
1717 |
1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London |
1731 |
Freemason and Mayor of Philadelphia William Allen is appointed Provincial Grand Master of Pennsylvania, the first and youngest Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania |
1748 |
The Kingswood School is opened by John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley in Bristol. The school later moved to Bath. |
1778 |
David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia |
1793 |
1st republican constitution in France adopted |
1794 |
Bowdoin College is founded in Maine, USA |
1795 |
US & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty |
1806 |
British under Commodore Popham and Colonel Beresford reach Buenos Aires |
1812 |
Napoleon Bonaparte's forces invade Russia crossing the Neman River |
1813 |
Battle of Beaver Dam - British & Indian forces defeat US forces |
1817 |
1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast |
1821 |
Battle of Carabobo; Bolívar defeats royalists outside Caracas |
1841 |
Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx |
1843 |
Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside ghetto in Italy |
1846 |
Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished |
1853 |
Gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce |
1859 |
Battle of Solferino, Northern Italy: a French Army under Napoleon III and Sardinian Army under Victor Emmanuel II overcame the Austrian Army under Emperor Franz Joseph I. |
1861 |
Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries |
1861 |
Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from Union |
1863 |
Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac |
1866 |
Second Battle at Custozza: the Austrian Imperial army, joined by the Venetian Army decisively defeated the Italian army, despite the Italians' strong numerical advantage. |
1880 |
First performance of "O Canada," the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français. |
1881 |
200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla, Mexico |
1882 |
NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty |
1884 |
John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention |
1885 |
British government of Salisbury forms |
1885 |
Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st US black bishop |
1894 |
Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years |
1894 |
Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio. |
1897 |
Hail injures 26 in Topeka, Kansas |
1898 |
American troops drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas, Cuba |
1900 |
Dutch Social-Democratic Workers' party & Socialistenbond merge |
1901 |
1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris |
1901 |
Jewish National Fund starts |
1902 |
King Edward VII develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation. |
1903 |
Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist |
1909 |
15th US Golf Open: George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood GC NJ |
1910 |
50th British Golf Open: James Braid shoots a 299 at St Andrews Scot |
1911 |
17th US Golf Open: John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago GC in Ill |
1913 |
53rd British Golf Open: J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake |
1914 |
King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent |
1916 |
Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract. |
1917 |
Russian Black Sea fleet mutinies at Sebastopol |
1920 |
Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR |
1922 |
AFPA changes name to NFL, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears |
1923 |
Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied |
1924 |
59th British Golf Open: Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake |
1928 |
32nd US Golf Open: Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill |
1928 |
With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada. |
1930 |
1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC |
1930 |
Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium |
1931 |
USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty |
1932 |
Coup ends absolute monarchy in Thailand |
1936 |
Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4 |
1936 |
Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in Natl Youth Adm |
1938 |
500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania |
1939 |
Pan Am's 1st US to England flight |
1940 |
France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II |
1941 |
Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated |
1941 |
Germans advanced into Russia & took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk & Kaunas |
1942 |
US Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered |
1942 |
Africa Korps invades Egypt |
1943 |
Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg |
1945 |
Schermerhorn government forms |
1945 |
The Moscow Victory Parade takes place. |
1946 |
11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisc (state 24-hr record) |
1946 |
Georges Bidault elected premier of France |
1947 |
29th PGA Championship: Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow CC Detroit |
1947 |
Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold |
1947 |
Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career |
1947 |
Jim Ferrier wins PGA golf tournament |
1948 |
Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey |
1948 |
Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade |
1949 |
"Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC) |
1949 |
A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog, arrested in Scheveningen, Netherlands |
1949 |
Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board |
1950 |
Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open |
1950 |
French government of Bidault resigns |
1950 |
NY Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple |
1951 |
Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations |
1953 |
KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
"John Murray Anderson's Almanac" closes at Imperial NYC after 229 perf |
1955 |
Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff) |
1956 |
"Steve Allen Show" returns on NBC-TV |
1956 |
2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge |
1956 |
WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1957 |
"I Love Lucy" last airs on CBS-TV |
1957 |
The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States. |
1960 |
Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's |
1961 |
"Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 97 perfs |
1961 |
Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby" |
1961 |
Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait |
1962 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament |
1962 |
Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest NY Yankee game in history |
1963 |
1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London |
1963 |
Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government |
1963 |
Zanzibar granted internal self-government by Britain |
1964 |
FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages |
1964 |
In South Africa, the 90-Days Act commences, providing for any person to be detained, without trial, for 90 days; further, the person could be re-arrested under the same law for another 90 days |
1966 |
Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die |
1966 |
Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I |
1967 |
Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus |
1967 |
Zaire adopts constitution |
1968 |
14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post |
1968 |
Australia all out for 78 v England at Lord's |
1968 |
Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion |
1968 |
Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleve 14-3 |
1968 |
Joe Frazier TKOs Manuel Ramos in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
1968 |
Resurrection City in Wash DC closed permanently |
1970 |
"Catch 22" opens in movie theaters |
1970 |
Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs |
1970 |
Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4 |
1970 |
US Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
1972 |
"Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6 |
1972 |
Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force) |
1972 |
Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention |
1972 |
Danie Malan, South African athlete, sets a new world record in the 1000m event in Munich |
1972 |
The Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill 3 British Army soldiers in a land mine attack near Dungiven, County Derry |
1973 |
Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8" |
1973 |
Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open |
1974 |
India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins |
1974 |
Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired |
1975 |
Eastern 727 crashes at JFK Airport NY, kills 113 |
1975 |
Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors) |
1976 |
1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany |
1976 |
A Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, outside Cape Town, South Africa, is burnt down; part of the broader resistance against the oppressive new Bantu Education policy of Afrikaans as a teaching medium in their schools |
1977 |
IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976 |
1977 |
Josiah Mutabuzi Isaya Kibira is the first African to be elected president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) |
1979 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open |
1979 |
Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland & steals his 1st base |
1980 |
Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million |
1982 |
Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat |
1982 |
Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16) |
1982 |
Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR) |
1982 |
US Supreme Court rules president can't be sued for actions in office |
1983 |
7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB |
1983 |
Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters |
1984 |
Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265 |
1984 |
Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic |
1985 |
18th Space Shuttle Mission (51-G)-Discovery 5 returns to Earth |
1985 |
Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F |
1986 |
Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years |
1986 |
US Senate approves "tax reform" |
1986 |
In Britain, Foreign Office Minister Lynda Chalker, meets Oliver Tambo, president of the African National Congress to discuss means of ending Apartheid without violence |
1987 |
CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold |
1987 |
Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak |
1988 |
Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves |
1988 |
Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak |
1989 |
Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th & 40th consecutive bases |
1990 |
Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International |
1991 |
NHL adopts instant-replay & tenth of second clock in final minute |
1992 |
Billy Joel gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville High School at 43 |
1992 |
Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball |
1992 |
Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel |
1992 |
John Gotti begins life sentence in jail |
1993 |
Arab terrorist group planning bombing of Holland and Lincoln Tunnels caught |
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. |
1994 |
1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting |
1994 |
Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning |
1995 |
Stanley Cup: NJ Devils sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games |
1995 |
South Africa's Springboks beat New Zealand's All Blacks 15-12 to win the Rugby Wold Cup in Johannesburg |
1997 |
Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom |
1997 |
USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies |
1997 |
Mark McGwire hits a 538 foot home run |
1997 |
Seat Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Oakland A's but loses |
2001 |
47th LPGA Championship won by Karrie Webb |
2002 |
The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history. |
2004 |
Capital punishment is declared unconstitutional in New York |
2007 |
The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours. |
2009 |
Mike Babcock is named head coach of Team Canada for the 2010 Winter Olympics (they would win the gold medal) |
2010 |
John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in tennis history. |
2012 |
Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt |
2012 |
Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time |
2013 |
The Chicago Blackhawks defeat the Boston Bruins to win the NHL Stanly Cup Finals |
2014 |
Sidney Crosby wins the Hart Memorial Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award for the 2014 NHL season |
2016 |
76ers Take LSU's Simmons With the No. 1 Pick in NBA Draft |
2016 |
Brexit vote - Leave ahead with 53.7 percent after first 10 counting areas: PA data |
2016 |
Oil prices dive as Britain votes to leave EU |
2016 |
Sterling plunges to 31-year low, biggest ever fall, as UK votes Brexit |
2016 |
Britain votes to leave European Union |
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