June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 190 days remaining.
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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.
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.
1441This page is about the year 1441. See UN Security Council Resolution 1441 for the 2002 call for Iraq to disclose its WMD Events June 24 Eton College founded Revolt in Yucatan capital Mayapan; Maya civilization falls into warring city-states Deaths July 12 - Eton CollegeEton College is a public school (that is, an independent, fee-paying secondary school) for boys in Eton, Berkshire near Windsor in England. It boards approximately 1,200 boys between the ages of 13 and 18 who enjoy some outstanding facilities at a cost of founded.
1497Events May 10 Amerigo Vespucci allegedly leaves Cadiz for his first voyage to the New World. May 13 Pope Alexander VI excommunicates Girolamo Savonarola. May 20 John Cabot sets sail from Bristol on his ship the Mathew looking for a route to the west (othe - John CabotGiovanni Caboto (c. 1450 1499), known as John Cabot in the English language, was an Italian navigator and explorer who is popularly credited as the modern discoverer of Canada, or at least the region that would become that nation. He was born Giovanni Cab lands on North AmericaNorth America is the third largest continent in area and the fourth ranked in population. It is bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west by the North Pacific Ocea, either at NewfoundlandThis is about the island in Canada. For the Canadian province of Newfoundland see Newfoundland and Labrador. For other meanings of Newfoundland see Newfoundland (disambiguation). Newfoundland is a large island off the north-east coast of North America, an or Cape Breton; first European discovery of the region since the Vikings.
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.
