Today in History
June 24
June 24
217 BC |
Carthaginian forces led by Hannibal destroy a Roman army under consul Gaius Flaminius in a battle at Lake Trasimene in central Italy. | |
1314 | Scottish forces, led by Robert the Bruce, win an overwhelming victory against English King Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn. | |
1340 | The English fleet defeats the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast. | |
1497 | Explorer John Cabot lands in North America in present-day Canada. | |
1509 | Henry VIII is crowned King of England. | |
1664 | The colony of New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, is founded. | |
1647 | Margaret Brent, demands a voice and a vote for herself in the Maryland colonial assembly. | |
1675 | King Philip’s War begins. | |
1812 | Napoleon crosses the Neman River and invades Russia. | |
1859 | At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army, led by Napoleon III, defeats the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I. | |
1861 | Federal gunboats attack Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia. | |
1862 | U.S. intervention saves the British and French at the Dagu Forts in China. | |
1896 | Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Harvard University. | |
1910 | The Japanese army invades Korea. | |
1913 | Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace. | |
1931 | The Soviet Union and Afghanistan sign a treaty of neutrality. | |
1940 | France signs an armistice with Italy. | |
1941 | President Franklin Roosevelt pledges all possible support to the Soviet Union. | |
1943 | Royal Air Force Bombers hammer Muelheim, Germany, in a drive to cripple the Ruhr industrial base. | |
1948 | The Soviet Union begins the Berlin Blockade, America responds with the Berlin Airlift. | |
1953 | John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announce their engagement. | |
1955 | Soviet MIG’s down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait. | |
1964 | The Federal Trade Commission announces that, starting in 1965, cigarette makers must include warning labels about the harmful effects of smoking. | |
1970 | The U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution | |
Born on June 24 | ||
1813 | Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman. | |
1842 | Ambrose Bierce, American writer and satirist (The Friend’s Delight, The Devil’s Dictionary). | |
1848 | Brooks Adams, American historian, son of Charles Francis Adams (The Law of Civilization and Decay). | |
1883 | Victor Francis Hess, physicist. | |
1895 | Jack Dempsey, American boxer and world heavyweight champion. | |
1901 | Harry Partch, composer. | |
1912 | Norman Cousins, editor of the Saturday Review. | |
1915 | Fred Hoyle, British mathematician and astronomer. | |
1916 | John Ciardi, poet. | |
1930 | Claude Chabrol, French film director (The Cousins, Madame Bovary). |
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