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.

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  Robert Bruce addressing his troops at the Battle of Bannockburn
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  Marie François Sadi Carnot
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  Fragment of "La Batalla de Carabobo", by Martín Tovar y Tovar
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  Flag of Quebec
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  Humber Bridge
• "O Canada"
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  Title page of a 1559 Book of Common Prayer
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  Manila Cathedral
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  Jiang Zemin
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  Julia Gillard

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
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.	unsourced sections
1596 – Led by Cornelis de Houtman, the first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reached Banten on Java.	date not in either article
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.	Lot of unsourced paragraphs
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
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 009 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
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.	Missing page numbers
* 1973 – A fire was started at the UpStairs Lounge, a gay bar in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S., causing 32 deaths.	Tagged for trivia
Mustafa I |b|1591|	Article says "around 1600"

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 completely destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of Sluys.
• 1559 – The 1559 Book of Common Prayer, a major component of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, is legally introduced as the liturgy of the Church of England.
• 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: Led by Napoleon, the French Grande Armée crossed the Neman, beginning their invasion of Russia.
• 1880 – "O Canada", the present-day national anthem of Canada, was first performed in Quebec City during a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day banquet.
• 1932 – A group of military officers and civilians engineered a bloodless coup in Siam, ending the absolute rule of the Chakri dynasty.
• 1937 – The U.S. Navy's first two fast battleships, North Carolina and Washington, of the North Carolina class, were respectively ordered from the New York and Philadelphia Naval Shipyards.
• 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.
• 1989 – Following the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party appointed Jiang Zemin (pictured) as general secretary in place of Zhao Ziyang.
• 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.
• Born/died this day: | Edward de Vere |d|1604| John Hampden |d|1643|Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui |b|1694| Jean-Baptiste de Boyer|b|1704| Ernst Heinrich Weber |b|1795| Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener |b|1850| Hastings Rashdall |b|1858| Kapiʻolani|d|1899| Carolyn S. Shoemaker |b|1929| Minor White |d|1976V. V. Giri |d|1980| Jasmin Moghbeli |b|1983| Lisa|b|1987|Lionel Messi |b|1987| Mick Aston|d|2013

Notes

• Miller v. California appears on June 21, so Roth v. U.S. should not appear in the same year

June 24

Julia Gillard

• 1374 – An outbreak of dancing mania, in which crowds of people danced themselves to exhaustion, began in Aachen (in present-day Germany) before spreading to other parts of Europe.
• 1717 – The first Grand Lodge of Freemasonry, the Premier Grand Lodge of England, was founded in London.
• 1724 – On the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Bach led the first performance of Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, the third cantata of his chorale cantata cycle.
• 1943 – Amid racial tensions, U.S. Army military police shot and killed a black serviceman after a confrontation at a pub in Bamber Bridge, England.
• 2010 – Julia Gillard (pictured) 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.

• William Arnold (b. 1587)
• Matthew Thornton (d. 1803)
• John Lloyd Cruz (b. 1983)
• Rodrigo (d. 2000)

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