June 24 Historical Events
The following events took place on June 24. The list is arranged in chronological order.
Found 55 events. Showing 31 - 55.
- 1916Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
- 1916World War I: The Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
- 1918First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
- 1932A bloodless revolution instigated by the People’s Party ends the absolute power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (now Thailand).
- 1938Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth’s atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania.
- 1939Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the country’s third prime minister.
- 1940World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11 Independent Company.
- 1947Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
- 1948Start of the Berlin Blockade: The Soviet Union makes overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impossible.
- 1949The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
- 1954First Indochina War: Battle of Mang Yang Pass: Viet Minh troops belonging to the 803rd Regiment ambush G.M. 100 of France in An Khê.
- 1957In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
- 1963The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
- 1967The worst caving disaster in British history takes six lives at Mossdale Caverns.
- 1973The UpStairs Lounge arson attack takes place at a gay bar located on the second floor of the three-story building at 141 Chartres Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. Thirty-two people die as a result of fire or smoke inhalation.
- 1981The Humber Bridge is opens 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.
- 1989Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
- 1995“Rugby World Cup final”: South Africa defeats New Zealand, Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb-Ellis trophy in an iconic post-apartheid moment.
- 2002The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
- 2004In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
- 2010John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history.
- 2010Julia Gillard assumed office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
- 2012Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies.
- 2013Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and having sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison.
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