What are the important events that happened on June 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
June 24: Facts & Myths About This Day
June 24 is the 176th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is June 11, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,653,120 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectaheptacontahexagon’ day.
Cancer is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Pearl is the modern birthstone for this month. Moonstone is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 219 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,203 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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June 24 Historical Events
- 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.
- 1622 –Battle of Macau: The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
- 1813 –Battle of Beaver Dams: a British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
- 1894 –Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
- 1913 –Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
- 1916 –World War I: the Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
- 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.
- 1947 –Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
- 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.
Who were born on June 24?
- 1485 –Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558)
- 1850 –Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, British field marshal (d. 1916)
- 1927 –Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel laureate
- 1939 –HA Schult, German artist
- 1950 –Nancy Allen, American actress
- 1958 –Kathy Troccoli, American singer
- 1979 –Craig Shergold, British internet folklore subject
- 1983 –Rebecca Cooke, British swimmer
- 1987 –Craig Henderson, New Zealand footballer
- 1989 –Apoorva Anwekar, Indian Born active in Raipur Chattisgarh (2PM)
Who died on June 24?
- 803 –Higbald, Bishop of Lindisfarne (birth year unknown)
- 1519 –Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara (b. 1480)
- 1520 –Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)
- 1803 –Matthew Thornton, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)
- 1894 –Marie François Sadi Carnot, French statesman (b. 1837)
- 1946 –Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
- 1989 –Hibari Misora, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1937)
- 2003 –Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (b. 1987)
- 2008 –Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1919)
- 2008 –Ira Tucker, American gospel singer (The Dixie Hummingbirds) (b. 1925)
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