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, featured list 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 -
Flag of Quebec -
Humber Bridge -
O Canada (use: {{DYK Listen|O Canada instrumental 1916.ogg|O Canada}})
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821); | refimprove |
| 1128 – Alfonso I fought the Battle of São Mamede, the first step toward Portuguese independence from Galicia. | unreferenced |
| 1314 – In the decisive battle in the First War of Scottish Independence, Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated English troops under Edward II near Bannockburn, Scotland. | refimprove section |
| 1340 – Hundred Years' War: The English fleet commanded by Edward III almost totally destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of Sluys. | refimprove |
| 1535 – Count Franz von Waldeck took Münster from the Anabaptists, ending the Münster Rebellion. | refimprove |
| 1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reached Bantam on Java. | need to verify date (Cornelis de Houtman article says June 27) |
| 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. | empty section, ibid |
| 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. | POV language |
| 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 delivered its decision in Roth v. United States, ruling that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. | no footnotes |
Eligible
- 1374 – An outbreak of dancing mania, wherein crowds of people danced themselves to exhaustion, took place in Aachen (present-day Germany), before spreading to other cities and countries.
- 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.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The French Grande Armée under Napoleon crossed the Neman River, marking the start of their invasion of Russia.
- 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.
- 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.
June 24: Nativity of St. John the Baptist (Christianity); Day of the Holy Spirit (Eastern Christianity, 2013); National Holiday/Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec, Canada
- 1571 – Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi established a council to govern the city of Manila, now the capital of the Philippines.
- 1717 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge, the Premier Grand Lodge of England, was founded in London.
- 1880 – "O Canada" (audio featured), today the national anthem of Canada, was first performed in Quebec City, Quebec, during a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day banquet.
- 1937 – The United States' first two "fast battleships", the North Carolina class, were ordered from the New York and Philadelphia Naval Shipyards.
- 1994 – A United States Air Force B-52 Stratofortress based at Fairchild Air Force Base in Spokane County, Washington, crashed, killing all four crew members, and later providing a case study on the importance of compliance with safety regulations.