About June 24
June 24, 2025 is the 175th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Cancer is the sun 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 238 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 24
- 637 –The Battle of Moira is fought between the High King of Ireland and the Kings of Ulster and Dalriada. It is the largest battle in the history of Ireland.
- 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.
- 1340 –Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
- 1509 –Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
- 1535 –The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
- 1793 –The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
- 1821 –The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
- 1859 –Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns): Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
- 1880 –First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
- 1894 –Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
- 1916 –Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.
- 1916 –World War I: the Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
- 1932 –A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People’s Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
- 1947 –Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
- 1957 –In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
- 1963 –The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
- 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.
- 1982 –“The Jakarta Incident”: British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
- 1985 –STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
- 2004 –In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
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