All Events

Historical Events on June 24

  • Great Siege of Gibraltar

    1779

    American Revolutionary War: The Great Siege of Gibraltar begins.

  • French invasion of Russia

    1812

    Napoleonic Wars: Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman river beginning the invasion of Russia.

  • Serbia

    1913

    Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.

  • Montreal

    1918

    First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.

  • Plaek Phibunsongkhram

    1939

    Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the country's third prime minister.

  • Operation Collar (commando raid)

    1940

    World War II: Operation Collar, the first British Commando raid on occupied France, by No 11 Independent Company.

  • First Amendment to the United States Constitution

    1957

    In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.

  • Tiananmen Square protests of 1989

    1989

    Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

  • Julia Gillard

    2010

    Julia Gillard assumes office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.

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