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
- 109 –Roman emperor Trajan inaugurates the Aqua Traiana, an aqueduct that channels water from Lake Bracciano, 40 km north-west of Rome.
- 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.
- 972 –Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
- 1314 –First War of Scottish Independence: the Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory by Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce, though England did not recognize Scottish independence until 1328 with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.
- 1340 –Hundred Years’ War: Battle of Sluys – The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by King Edward III.
- 1374 –A sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
- 1571 –Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.
- 1597 –The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).
- 1622 –Battle of Macau: The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau.
- 1812 –Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon’s Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.
- 1813 –Battle of Beaver Dams: a British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.
- 1916 –Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 2002 –The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
- 2004 –In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
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