June 24 ::: Project ETERNITY

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June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining.

Events

1100-1899

1128 - Battle of St.Mamede, near Guimarães. Portuguese forces led by Afonso I beat his mother D.Teresa and D.Fernão Peres de Trava. After this battle, the future king calls himself "Prince of Portugal", the first step towards independence in 1143.

1314 - Battle of Bannockburn. Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce beat Edward II of England. Scotland regains its independence.

1374 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aix-la-Chapelle, Prussia, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

1441 - Eton College founded.

1497 - John Cabot lands on North America, either at Newfoundland or Cape Breton; first European discovery of the region since the Vikings.

1497 - Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank executed at Tyburn, London

1509 - Henry VIII crowned King of England.

1534 - Jacques Cartier makes the European discovery of Prince Edward Island.

1535 - The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.

1597 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reaches Bantam (on Java).

1604 - Edward De Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford dies. Leading candidate for true authorship of the Shakespeare canon.

1662 - Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macao.

1664 - The colony of New Jersey is founded.

1692 - Kingston, Jamaica founded.

1793 - First republican constitution in France adopted.

1812 - Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins.

1859 - Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns). Sardinia and France defeat Austria in northern Italy.

1861 - Tennessee becomes the 11th and last state to secede from the US.

1880 - First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.

1894 - The IOC decides to hold the Olympic Games every four years.

1900-1999

1901 - First exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work opens.

1910 - Japan invades Korea.

1913 - Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.

1915 - The steamer Eastland capsizes in Chicago. 800 people die.

1916 - Mary Pickford becomes first film star to get million dollar contract.

1918 - First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.

1918 - The giant cannon Big Bertha begins bombardments on Paris

1932 - A military coup ends the absolute power of the king of Siam (Thailand).

1940 - France and Italy sign an armistice.

1941 - The Germans capture Vilna, Brest-Litovsk, and Kaunas.

1945 - The U.S.S.R. capture the Free Republic of Schwarzenberg.

1946 - Georges Bidault becomes Prime Minister of France

1947 - First known sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold, flying over Washington, notices nine luminous disks in the form of saucers.

1948 - Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.

1957 - The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obsecnity is not protected by the First Amendment.

1963 - Zanzibar is granted internal self-government by the UK.

1974 - The UPC label is used for the first time to ring up purchases at a supermarket.

1975 - An Eastern Airlines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.

1983 - Sally Ride, first female American astronaut, returns to earth.

1983 - Yasir Arafat banned from Damascus.

1993 - Yale computer science professor Dr. David Gelernter loses the sight in one eye, the hearing in one ear, and part of his right hand after receiving a mailbomb from the Unabomber.

1996 - Michael Johnson breaks the world record in the 400 metres with a time of 19.66 seconds

1999 - The guitar which Eric Clapton recorded Layla is sold at auction for the astounding price of $497,500.