Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 24
On June 24:
- Fête nationale du Québec (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day) - Official holiday of Quebec
- 1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England.
- 1597 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reached Bantam (on Java).
- 1910 - Japan annexed Korea.
- 1947 - First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, noticed nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.