SomeFacts | June 24

On this day - June 24

Mursili II launches a campaign against the Kingdom of Azzi-Hayasa.

109 — Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct ...

474 — Julius Nepos forces Roman usurper Glycerius to abdicate the ...

637 — The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland ...

843 — The Vikings sack the French city of Nantes.

972 — Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish ...

1128 — Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães: Forces led by Afonso I ...

1230 — The Siege of Jaén begins, in the context of the Spanish ...

1314 — First War of Scottish Independence: The Battle of Bannockburn ...

1340 — Hundred Years' War: Battle of Sluys: The French fleet is ...

1374 — A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in ...

1497 — John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the ...

1509 — Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen ...

1535 — The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.

1540 — English King Henry VIII commands his fourth wife, Anne of ...

1571 — Miguel López de Legazpi conquers Manila for Spain, modern day ...

1593 — The Dutch city of Geertruidenberg held by the Spanish, ...

1604 — Samuel de Champlain encounters the mouth of the Saint John ...

1622 — Battle of Macau: The Dutch make a failed attempt to capture ...

1663 — The Spanish garrison of Évora capitulates, following the ...

1717 — The Premier Grand Lodge of England is founded in London, the ...

1724 — On the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Bach leads the first ...

1762 — Battle of Wilhelmsthal: The British-Hanoverian army of ...

1779 — American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar ...

1793 — The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.

1812 — Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the ...

1813 — Battle of Beaver Dams: A British and Indian combined force ...

1821 — Battle of Carabobo: Decisive battle in the war of independence ...

1859 — Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia ...

1866 — Battle of Custoza: An Austrian army defeats the Italian army ...

1880 — First performance of O Canada at the Congrès national des ...

1894 — Assassination of the French President, Sadi Carnot by Sante ...

1913 — Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.

1916 — Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a ...

1918 — First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.

1922 — The American Professional Football Association is renamed the ...

1932 — A bloodless revolution instigated by the People's Party ...

1938 — Pieces of a meteorite land near Chicora, Pennsylvania. The ...

1939 — Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the ...

1940 — World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando ...

1943 — US military police attempt to arrest a black soldier in Bamber ...

1945 — The first Victory Day Parade takes place on Red Square in ...

1947 — Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting ...

1948 — Cold War: Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes ...

1949 — The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring ...

1950 — Apartheid: In South Africa, the Group Areas Act is passed, ...

1954 — First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass: Viet Minh ...

1957 — In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that ...

1960 — Venezuelan President Rómulo Betancourt is injured in an ...

1963 — The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.

1973 — The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar ...

1975 — Eastern Air Lines Flight 66 encounters severe wind shear and ...

1981 — The Humber Bridge opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and ...

1982 — "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 009 ...

1989 — Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General ...

1994 — A Boeing B-52 Stratofortress crashes at Fairchild Air Force ...

1995 — Rugby World Cup: South Africa defeats New Zealand and Nelson ...

2002 — The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst ...

2004 — In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.

2010 — Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime ...

2010 — At Wimbledon, John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas ...

2012 — Death of Lonesome George, the last known individual of ...

2013 — Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found ...

2021 — The Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida ...

2022 — In Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, the U.S. ...

2023 — The Wagner Group led by Yevgeny Prigozhin launches an ...