About June 24
June 24, 2023 is the 175th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 231 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On June 24
- 972 –Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
- 1340 –Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
- 1497 –John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland leading the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings.
- 1571 –Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.
- 1604 –Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
- 1717 –The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
- 1793 –The first Republican constitution in France is adopted.
- 1813 –Battle of Beaver Dams: a British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
- 1821 –The Battle of Carabobo takes place. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
- 1866 –Battle of Custoza: an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
- 1894 –Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
- 1902 –King Edward VII of the United Kingdom develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
- 1918 –First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
- 1938 –Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
- 1947 –Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
- 1949 –The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
- 1963 –The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
- 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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