June 24

National

•   Azerbaijan - Day of the engineering industry workers.
•   Latvia ,   Estonia - Yanov day .
•   Lithuania - Kupala .
•   Peru ,   Bolivia ,   Ecuador - Inti Raymi and Indian Day ^[2] .
•   Scotland - Independence Day ^[3] .
•   Ecuador - San Juan Bautista ^[4] .

Regional

•   Canada ,   Quebec - The National Holiday of Quebec .
•   Russia , Chuvashia - Day of the Republic of Chuvashia ^[5] .

  Religious

  Catholicism

• Christmas of John the Baptist .

  Orthodoxy ^{[6] [7]}

• the memory of the Apostles Bartholomew (Nathaniel) and Barnabas (Josiah) (I);
• Rev. Barnabas of Vetluzhsk (1445);
• the transfer of the relics of St. Ephrem of Novotorzhsky , archimandrite (1572);
• The Cathedral of the Rev. Fathers of Pskovo-Pechersk (a passing celebration in 2018);
• celebrations in honor of the icons of the Mother of God:
  • Abulska ;
  • “It is worthy to eat” (Milya) (X).

Name Day

• Catholic: Danuta , John .
• Orthodox: Barnabas , Bartholomew , Ephraim .

See also: Category: June 24 Events

Until the XIX century

• 1314 - at the Battle of Bannockburn the Scottish king Robert Bruce defeated the army of the English king Edward II , restoring the independence of his country.
• 1497 - John Cabot discovered Canada ( Newfoundland ).
• 1571 - The city of Manila was founded in the Philippines by Basque Miguel López Legaspi .
• 1667 - The Second Anglo-Dutch War : the Reid on the Medway of the Dutch fleet under the command of Mihail de Ruiter ended in triumph. He became one of the worst defeats of the English fleet and brought the end of the war closer.
• 1717 - On the day of St. John, representatives of the English Masonic lodges gathered in the beer-house "Gus and Spit" and established the Great Lodge of England - the union of all the lodges that were available. Freemasonry took shape as an organized movement.
• 1793 - The French Convention adopted the first democratic constitution (which was never enacted). France proclaimed a republic.
• 1795 - Catherine II established the Podolsk province of the Russian Empire .

XIX century

• 1812 - Napoleon's army, crossing the Neman River , invaded the territory of the Russian Empire . The Patriotic War of 1812 began .
• 1812 - received in the evening by Alexander I at the festival, which Russian officers gave in his honor in the vicinity of Vilna , reports of the beginning of the crossing of the French army across the Neman River .
• 1880 - the song “ Oh Canada ” is publicly performed for the first time.
• 1893 - Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen went to the North Pole on the ship "Fram" ("Forward").
• 1894 - at a congress in Paris , convened on the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin , decisions were made to form the IOC and hold the Olympic Games once every four years.
• 1899 - the port city of Polyarny is founded on the Kola Peninsula (now the city of Polyarny). During the Great Patriotic War was the main base of the Northern Fleet.

XX century

• 1901 - The first exhibition of 19-year-old Barcelona-based artist Pablo Ruiz Picasso opened in Paris .
• 1916 - the first time the contract amount of a Hollywood star was a seven-digit number. America's Beloved Mary Pickford has signed a contract with Paramount Pictures for $ 1,040,000.
• 1925 - in Berlin, the Reichstag building was seized by a crowd of investors, whose savings were burned during post-war hyperinflation in Germany.
• 1930 - The first use of the radar to detect aircraft (Anacostia, DC).
• 1931 - An article by Maxim Gorky “On anti-Semites” was published in Pravda .
• 1934 - the capital of Ukraine moved from Kharkov to Kiev .
• 1935 - The first children's railway in the USSR opened in Tbilisi .
• 1937 - A plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU (b) interrupted the speech of one of the leaders of the Comintern, Osip Pyatnitsky , who demanded that the NKVD stop repressions (the next day, the head of the NKVD, N. Yezhov, announced Pyatnitsky as an agent of the Tsarist secret police).
• 1940
  • For the first time television cameras were used to highlight a political event - a congress of Republicans who elected their candidate for the presidential elections in the United States .
  • The first issue of the newspaper Politički vjesnik (now Vjesnik ), which was the main source of information on the actions of the partisans, was published in Zagreb, Croatia .
• 1941 - Soviet Information Bureau began to give reports on hostilities.
• 1945 - Victory Parade on Red Square . The parade was hosted by Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K. Zhukov . The parade was commanded by Marshal of the Soviet Union K. K. Rokossovsky . The parade culminated in the throwing of Nazi standards and banners to Lenin's mausoleum .
• 1948 - the beginning of the blockade of West Berlin by the Soviet Union .
• 1951 - Commercial color television ( CBS ) began.
• 1959 - in Moscow N. S. Khrushchev promised the Vice-President of the United States Richard Nixon to show “ fucking mother ”.
• 1963
  • In the studio BBC in the English capital city of London for the first time demonstrated home video recorder .
  • The opening of the World Congress of Women in Moscow .
• 1973 - Leonid Brezhnev during a visit to the United States announced that the cold war was over.
• 1982
  • Soyuz-T-6 was launched with the first French astronaut on board ( Jean-Loup Chretien ).
  • The incident with Boeing 747 over Java : after passing through a cloud of volcanic ash from a Boeing 747 aircraft , all engines failed. At an altitude of 3000 meters, they were able to launch, and the airliner safely reached the Halim airport in Jakarta .
• 1990 - the last concert of Viktor Tsoi and the group " Kino ", held at the Luzhniki Stadium .
• 1994 - At the session of the EU Council at the highest level, held on the island of Corfu ( Corfu ), President Yeltsin of the Russian Federation signed the “Agreement on Partnership and Cooperation between the Russian Federation and the European Union”, which entered into force on December 1, 1997 . In accordance with it, the Council of Cooperation between Russia and the EU, which is the main coordinating body at the ministerial level, and other joint bodies were created.
• 2010 - For the first time, a woman - Julia Gillard became the new leader of the Labor Party in Australia and the prime minister of the country ^[8] .

See Category: Born June 24

Until the XIX century

• 1695 - Martin van Meitens (died 1770 ), Austrian portrait painter of the Baroque era.
• 1771 - Eleter DuPont (died 1834 ), French industrialist, founder and first president of DuPont .
• 1795 - Ernst Weber (died 1878 ), German psychophysiologist and anatomist.
• 1796 - Jan Chechot (d. 1847 ), Polish poet and Belarusian folklorist.

XIX century

• 1816 - Peter Boklevsky (died 1897 ), Russian graphic artist, illustrator.
• 1819 - Peter Shmelkov (died 1890 ), Russian artist, cartoonist and satirist.
• 1828 - Axel Gadolin (died 1892 ), a Finnish and Russian scientist in the field of artillery weapons, metalworking, mineralogy and crystallography.
• 1838 - Jan Matejko (died 1893 ), Polish artist.
• 1842 - Ambrose Beers (died 1914 ), American writer and journalist.
• 1850 - Horace Herbert Kitchener (d. 1916 ), British Field Marshal, Count .
• 1852
  • Victor Adler (died 1918 ), one of the leaders of the Austrian Social Democracy .
  • Friedrich Löffler (died 1915 ), German bacteriologist and hygienist, one of the founders of medical microbiology.
• 1875 - Robert Garrett (died 1961 ), American athlete, first Olympic champion in shot put and discus throwing, two-time champion and 4-time winner of the first Olympiad ( 1896 ).
• 1881 - Grigory Kotovsky (assassinated in 1925 ), revolutionary, hero of the Civil War in Russia , Soviet military and politician.
• 1883
  • Victor Franz Hess (d. 1964 ), Austrian and American physicist, Nobel laureate (1936).
  • Ekaterina Roshchina-Insarova (died 1970 ), Russian dramatic actress.
• 1888 - Nikolai Smolich (d. 1968 ), Ukrainian actor, theater director, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1897 - Nikolai Suetin (died 1954 ), Soviet porcelain painter, master of design, graphics and painting.

XX century

• 1905 - Georgia Hale (died 1985 ), American silent film actress.
• 1906 - Hans Yarai (died 1990 ) Austrian writer, singer, theater and film actor.
• 1908 - Marina Ladynina (died 2003 ), actress of theater and cinema, People’s Artist of the USSR.
• 1908 - Tullio Pinelli (d. 2009 ), Italian writer and screenwriter.
• 1909 - William Penny (d. 1991 ), English physicist, head of the British atomic bomb program.
• 1911
  • Ernesto Sabato (d. 2011 ), Argentine writer, essayist, painter and physicist.
  • Juan Manuel Fangio (d. 1995 ), Argentine race car driver, 5-time world champion in the Formula 1 class.
• 1912 - Sergei Filippov (d. 1990 ), comedian of theater and cinema, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1913 - Pavel Usovnichenko (died 1962 ), Soviet theater and film actor.
• 1914 - Jan Karsky (d. 2000 ), member of the Polish Resistance Movement, Righteous Among the Nations .
• 1915 - Sir Fred Hoyle (d. 2001 ), English astrophysicist, cosmologist and science fiction writer.
• 1920 - Vladimir Kharitonov (d. 1981 ), Russian Soviet songwriter.
• 1923 - Marc Riboud (d. 2016 ), French photographer, photojournalist, reportage master.
• 1927 - Martin Pearl (d. 2014 ), American physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1995).
• 1930 - Claude Chabrol (d. 2010 ), French film director.
• 1932 - David McTaggart (died 2001 ), Canadian activist, founder of the global environmental movement Greenpeace .
• 1938 - Boris Lagutin , Soviet boxer, two-time Olympic champion, two-time European champion.
• 1940
  • Vittorio Storaro , Italian-American cameraman.
  • Henriette Yanovskaya , Chief Director of the Moscow Youth Theater , People's Artist of Russia.
• 1944 - Jeff Beck , British virtuoso guitarist, composer, 7-time Grammy Award winner .
• 1945 - Colin Blanstone , British singer and composer, vocalist of The Zombies .
• 1947
  • Peter Weller , American film actor.
  • Mick Fleetwood , British rock musician, drummer, one of the founders of the group " Fleetwood Mac ".
• 1948 - Patrick Mauraz , Swiss keyboardist and composer, member of the groups Yes , The Moody Blues .
• 1949 - John Illsley , British musician, bass guitarist of the blues-rock band Dire Straits .
• 1950 - Nancy Allen , American actress.
• 1961 - Kurt Smith , British rock musician, singer, songwriter, member of the duet " Tears for Fears ".
• 1963 - Yuri Kasparyan , Soviet and Russian rock musician, guitarist of the Kino group.
• 1968 - Boris Gelfand , Soviet and Israeli chess player, grandmaster.
• 1976 - Elena Perova , Russian singer, musician, actress, TV presenter, ex-soloist of the Lyceum and Amega groups.
• 1987 - Lionel Messi , Argentine footballer.

See Category: Dead June 24

Until the XIX century

• 79 - Vespasian (r. 9 ), Roman emperor since 69 years (after Nero ).
• 1398 - Zhu Yuanzhang (b. 1328 ), Chinese emperor (from 1368), founder of the Ming dynasty .
• 1519 - Lucrezia Borgia (born 1480 ), Countess, illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI .
• 1795 - William Smelli (b. 1740 ), Scottish historian, encyclopaedist, compiler and editor-in-chief of the first edition of the British Encyclopedia .

XIX century

• 1846 - Jan Frans Willems (b. 1793 ), Flemish poet, philologist, historian, translator, politician.
• 1860 - Jerome Bonaparte (b. 1784 ), younger brother of Napoleon I Bonaparte .
• 1879 - Jean Joseph Augustin Ernest Favre , French physician, physiologist and educator; Doctor of Medicine, President of the ^[9] .
• 1883 - Valentin Korsch (b. 1828 ), Russian journalist, journalist, literary historian.
• 1894 - Marie Francois Sadi Carnot (b. 1837 ), French engineer and politician, President of France (1887-1894).

XX century

• 1908 - Grover Cleveland (b. 1837 ), 22nd and 24th President of the United States (1885-1889 and 1893-1897).
• 1922 - Walter Rathenau (b. 1867 ), German industrialist, foreign minister.
• 1924 - William James Pirry (b. 1847 ), Irish shipbuilder and businessman, creator of the Titanic.
• 1935 - Carlos Gardel (born 1887 or 1890 ), Argentinean singer, composer, actor, tango performer died.
• 1943 - Frederick Henry Evans (b. 1853 ), English photographer, master of architectural photography.
• 1950 - Ivan Shmelev (b. 1873 ), Russian writer , publicist, Orthodox thinker.
• 1952 - Ivan Klukvin (born 1900 ), Soviet theater and film actor.
• 1956 - Ivan Likhachev (b. 1896 ), People's Commissar of Mechanical Engineering .
• 1962 - Anatoly Mariengof (b. 1897 ), Russian imagist poet, art theorist, novelist, playwright, memoirist.
• 1963 - Vladimir Dykhovichny (b. 1911 ), Soviet satirist, playwright, poet, pop artist.
• 1969 - Willy Leigh (b. 1906 ), German and American researcher, writer, popularizer of science.
• 1976 - Imogen Cunningham (b. 1883 ), an outstanding American female photographer.
• 1978 - Mstislav Keldysh (b. 1911 ), Soviet scientist in the field of mathematics, mechanics, space science and technology, academician, three times Hero of Socialist Labor.
• 1980 - Boris Kaufman (b. 1903 ), French and American cameraman and director of Russian origin.
• 1982 - Elena Kruglikova (b. 1907 ), opera singer (lyric soprano), People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 1991 - Rufino Tamayo (b. 1899 ), Mexican artist.

XXI century

• 2004 - Athanasius Kochetkov (b. 1930 ), theater and film actor, People's Artist of the RSFSR.
• 2006 - Vyacheslav Marytchev (b. 1939 ), Russian politician, deputy of the State Duma of the 1st convocation.
• 2008
  • Leonid Gurwitz (b. 1917 ), American economist, Nobel laureate (2007).
  • Alla Kazanskaya (b. 1920 ), theater and film actress, theater teacher, People’s Artist of the RSFSR.
  • Viktor Kuzkin (b. 1940 ), Soviet hockey player, multiple world and Olympic champion.
• 2015 - Oleg Tvorogov (b. 1928 ), Soviet and Russian philologist- medievalist .

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• Do not tear the grass ^[10] .