Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 24
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This is a list of selected June 24 anniversaries that appears on the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition may be controversial, or on a day that is or soon will be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors.June 24: Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821); Midsummer Day in Northern Europe; Fête nationale du Québec (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day) in Quebec, Canada
- 1314 – Scotland regained independence as forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II of England in the Battle of Bannockburn (pictured).
- 1894 – Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio assassinated Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic, after Carnot delivered a speech at a public banquet in Lyon, France.
- 1947 – First widely-reported post-World War II sighting of UFOs: American businessman and pilot Kenneth Arnold saw nine luminous disks in the form of saucers flying above the U.S. state of Washington near Mount Rainier.
- 1948 – The Soviet Union blocked access to the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin, cutting off all rail and road routes going into Soviet-controlled territory in Germany.
