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This is a list of selected June 24 anniversaries that appear in 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 might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

To report an error when this appears on the Main Page, see Main Page errors. Please remember that this list defers to the supporting articles, so it is best to achieve consensus and make any necessary changes there first.

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Blurb Reason
Midsummer Day in Northern Europe; refimprove
1128Alfonso I fought the Battle of São Mamede, the first step toward Portuguese independence from Galicia. unreferenced
1314 – In the decisive battle in the First War of Scottish Independence, Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated English troops under Edward II near Bannockburn, Scotland. refimprove
1340Hundred Years' War: The English fleet commanded by King Edward III almost totally destroyed the French fleet at the Battle of Sluys. refimprove
1535 – Count Franz von Waldeck took Münster from the Anabaptists, ending the Münster Rebellion. missing citations
1597 – The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reached Bantam on Java. need to verify date
1894Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio fatally stabbed Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic, after Carnot delivered a speech at a public banquet in Lyon, France. refimprove
1945 – The Soviet Red Army held a victory parade in Moscow to celebrate the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II. date not cited
1947 – In one of the first widely reported unidentified flying object sightings in the United States, 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. POV language
1948Cold War: 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. refimprove section
1957 – The U.S. Supreme Court delivered its decision in Roth v. United States, ruling that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. no footnotes

Eligible

June 24: Nativity of St. John the Baptist in Christianity; Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821); National Holiday/Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec, Canada

The North Carolina class battleship Washington after the Second World War

  • 1374 – An outbreak of dancing mania, wherein crowds of people danced themselves to exhaustion, took place in Aachen (present-day Germany), before spreading to other cities and countries.
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