June 24th
Holidays and Festivals
Manila Day (Manila)
Midsummer Day (England)
National Holiday (Quebec)
Battle of Carabobo Day (Venezuela)
St John's Day * (See Below)
Day of the Caboclo (Amazonas State, Brazil)
Jaanipäev (Estonia)
Swim a Lap Day
Celebration of the Senses
St. John's Day (Ireland)
Saint Jonas' Festival or Jonines (Lithuania)
Penzance, the Golowan Festival (Cornwall, UK), also known as Penzance Golowan June 23rd through 28th.
Jāņi (Latvia), June 23rd and 24th
Ivan Kupala Day (Ukraine, Belarus and Russia), also known as Kupala Night or the Feast of St. John the Baptist. The night of June 23rd and the Day of June 24th.
Feast of Ramat (Bahá'í Faith)
Christian Feast Day of John the Baptist (Nativity)
Jaanipäev Tallinn (Estonia), also known as the Midsummer Celebrations, June 21st through 24th
* Glastonbury Festival 2010 Glastonbury, UK June 23 – 27 (2of5) (2010) End of June
* St John's Day and the second day of the Midsummer celebrations (not the real summer solstice, see June 20) (Roman Catholic Church, Northern Europe)
Fête de la Romarin Translation: Rosemary Day (French Republican) The Sixth day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here's to a guy who is never blue,
Here's to a buddy who is ever true,
Here's to a pal, no matter what the load,
Who never Declines, just one for the road."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Wet Pussy
1 Part Vodka
1 Part Peach Schnapps
1 Part Cranberry Juice
Shake and Strain Into a Cocktail Glass
Wine of The Day
Daniel Gehrs (2007) Cabernet Sauvignon
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Central Coast
$25
Beer of The Day
Lumberyard Imperial Red
Brewer - Beaver St. Brewery Flagstaff, AZ
Style - Imperial Red Ale
Joke of The Day
A young English boy finds a kilt and wears it for a laugh. He goes to his mum and says "Look mum I'm Scottish". She freaks and slaps him across the head. "I can't believe you just said that, go and tell your gran what you just said" The boy goes to his gran and says "Look gran I'm Scottish! ".
She freaks and slaps him across the head. "I can't believe you just said that, go tell your dad what you just said" The boy goes to his dad and says "Look dad - I'm Scottish. His dad goes ballistic - takes off his belt and gives him a good thrashing. Then he says to him - "I can't believe you just said that, now how do you feel"? The boy says - "I've only been Scottish for 5 minutes and I hate you English bastards already"
- In Celebration of MidSummer Day
Quote of The Day
1
"Abstainer: a weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure."
- Ambrose Bierce (June 24th 1842 to after December 26, 1913), an American editorialist.
2
"Brandy, n. A cordial composed of one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan."
- Ambrose Bierce
June Observances
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month
Aquarium Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Black Music Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Corn and Cucumber Month
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Dairy Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fight the Filthy Fly Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
Home Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
International Surf Music Month
Lane Courtesy Month
Lemon and Mango Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Adopt a Cat Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Candy Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Family Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also September)
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Awareness Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Lady Lawyers Month
National Migraine Awareness Month
National Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
National R.O.S.E. Month
National Rescue a Cat Month
National Rivers Month
National Safety Month
National Smile Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Student Safety Month
National Tire Safety Month
Okra & Pluot and Aprium Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Turkey Lovers' Month
Vision Research Month
Women's Golf Month
World Infertility Month
World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere)
Observances this Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week, Last Full Week in June
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week, Last Full Week in June
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week, Week of June 26th
Appreciate Your Plumbing, Heating, and
Cooling Professionals Week, Fourth Week in June
Last day of Dragaica fair (Buzau, Romania) June 10th through 24th
Eye Safety Awareness Week, Last Week in June
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week, Last Week in June
Historical Events on June 24th
451 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
843 Vikings destroy Nantes
972 Battle of Cedynia, the first documented victory of Polish forces, takes place.
1128 Battle of São Mamede, near Guimarães:Portuguese forces led by Alfonso I defeat 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 "official independence" in 1139, after the Battle of Ourique.
1298 Rindfleish Persecutions-Jews of Ifhauben Austria massacred
1314 The Battle of Bannockburn concludes with a decisive victory of the Scottish forces led by Robert the Bruce in the First War of Scottish Independence, though England did not recognise Scottish independence until 1328 with the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton.
1322 Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time
1340 Battle at Lock, English fleet beats France/Genuezen, 10-30,000 killed
1340 Battle of Sluys, The French fleet is almost destroyed by the English Fleet commanded in person by Edward III of England in the Hundred Years' War.
1374 A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
1396 Crusaders under earl of Nevers reach Vienna
1397 Sultan Bajezid I release caught crusaders free, for ransom
1441 Eton College founded by Henry VI
1441 King Henry VI founds Eton College.
1472 Zoe Paleologa departs Rome for Moscow
1497 Cornish traitors Michael An Gof and Thomas Flamank are executed at Tyburn, London.
1497 John Cabot lands in North America at Newfoundland, the first European exploration of the region since the Vikings, claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia).
1509 Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are crowned King and Queen of England.
1522 Battle at La Bicocca, Emperor Karel V beats France
1522 Portuguese Antonio de Brita signs treaty island of Ternate Molukkas
1527 Gustaaf I begins Reformation in Sweden, taking RC possessions
1529 Zurich & catholic kantons sign Peace of Kappel
1535 Anabaptists Protestants conquered & disbanded
1535 The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered by Hessische troops and disbanded.
1540 Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1571 Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founds Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.
1572 5 clergymen of Enkhuizen, hanged
1597 The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies, Cornelis de Houtman's fleet reaches Bantam, West Java
1604 Samuel de Champlain discovers the mouth of the Saint John River, site of Reversing Falls and the present day city of Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada.
1610 Battle at Klushino: King Sigismund II beats Russia & Sweden
1619 Tsar Michails father Filaret becomes patriarch of Moscow
1647 Lord Baltimore's niece ejected requesting vote at Maryland Council
1648 Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews & 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
1658 French fleet recaptures Duinkerk
1662 The Dutch attempt but fail to capture Macau (Macau Day).
1664 The colony of New Jersey is founded.
1690 King Willem III's army lands at Carrickfergus Ireland [OS=June 14]
1692 Kingston, Jamaica is founded.
1717 The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.
1748 The Kingswood School is opened by John Wesley and his brother Charles Wesley in Bristol. The school later moved to Bath.
1778 David Rittenhouse observes a total solar eclipse in Philadelphia
1793 The first republican constitution in France is adopted.
1794 Bowdoin College is founded.
1795 US & Great Britain sign Jay Treaty, 1st US extradition treaty
1806 English under commodore Popham/col Beresford reach Buenos Aires
1812 Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning his invasion of Russia.
1813 Battle of Beaver Dams, A British and Indian combined force defeat the U.S Army.
1817 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1821 The Battle of Carabobo takes place, Bolívar defeats royalists outside of Caracas. It is the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain.
1841 Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
1843 Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside of ghetto in Italy
1846 Residency tax on Jews of Hungary abolished
1853 Gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce
1859 Battle of Solferino (Battle of the Three Sovereigns), Sardinia and France defeat Austria in Solferino, northern Italy.
1861 Battle of Mathias Point, VA-US attacks Confederate batteries
1861 Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
1863 Planning an invasion of Pennsylvania, Lee's army crosses Potomac
1866 2nd Battle at Custozza, an Austrian army defeats the Italian army during the Austro-Prussian War.
1880 First performance of O Canada, the song that would become the national anthem of Canada, at the Congrès national des Canadiens-Français.
1881 200 drown as train runs off bridge near Cuautla Mexico
1882 NL expels umpire Richard Higham for dishonesty
1884 John Lynch is 1st black elected chairman of Republican convention
1885 British government of Salisbury forms
1885 Samuel David Ferguson becomes 1st US black bishop
1894 Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1894 Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.
1897 Hail injures 26 in Topeka Kansas
1898 American troops, drive Spanish forces from La Guasimas Cuba
1900 Dutch Social-Democratic Worker's party & Socialistenbond merge
1901 First exhibition of Pablo Picasso, 19, work opens in Paris.
1901 Jewish National Fund starts
1902 King Edward VII develops appendicitis, delaying his coronation.
1903 Russia prohibits meetings dealing with Zionist
1908 Yanks replace Clark Griffith with Kid Elberfeld as manager who is destined to have worse won-lost pct of any Yankee mgr 27-71 (.276)
1909 15th US Golf Open, George Sargent shoots a 290 at Englewood GC NJ
1910 50th British Golf Open, James Braid shoots a 299 at St Andrews Scot
1911 17th US Golf Open, John McDermott shoots a 307 at Chicago GC in Ill
1913 53rd British Golf Open, J H Taylor shoots a 304 at Hoylake Hoylake
1913 Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
1914 King Peter I of Serbia names son Alexander the Prince-regent
1916 Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.
1916 The Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line, World War I.
1917 Russian Black Sea fleet mutiny at Sebastopol
1918 First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
1920 Chuvash Autonomous Region forms in RSFSR
1922 The American Professional Football Association formally changed it's name to the National Football League, Chicago Staleys become Chicago Bears.
1923 Pope Pius XI speaks against allies occupying Ruhrgebied
1924 59th British Golf Open, Walter Hagen shoots a 301 at Hoylake Hoylake
1928 32nd US Golf Open, Johnny Farrell shoots a 294 at Olympia Fields Ill
1928 With declining business, the Great Gorge and International Railway (New York Ontario) begins using one-person crews on trolley operations in Canada.
1930 1st radar detection of planes, Anacostia DC
1930 Ground is broken for construction of Cleveland Stadium
1931 USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
1932 A bloodless Revolution instigated by the People's Party ends the absolute monarchy power of King Prajadhipok of Siam (Thailand).
1936 Joe DiMaggio becomes 5th to hit 2 HRs in 1 inn, Yanks beat Browns 18-4
1936 Mary McLeod Bethune named director of Negro Affairs in Natl Youth Adm
1938 Pieces of a meteor, estimated to have weighed 450 metric tons when it hit the Earth's atmosphere and exploded, land near Chicora, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh.
1939 Pan Am's 1st US to England flight
1939 Siam was renamed to Thailand by Plaek Pibulsonggram, the third prime minister.
1940 France signs an armistice with Italy during WW II
1941 Entire Jewish male population of Gorzhdy Lithuania, exterminated
1941 Germans advanced into Russia & took Vilna, Brest-Litovsk & Kaunas
1942 Admiral Ernest King orders Tulagi (Solomon Island) reconquered
1942 Africa Corps occupy Egypt
1943 Allies begin 10-day bombing on Hamburg
1945 Schermerhorn government forms
1945 The Moscow Victory Parade takes place.
1946 11.72" (29.77 cm) of rainfall at Mellen Wisc (state 24-hr record)
1946 Georges Bidault elected premier of France
1947 29th PGA Championship, Jim Ferrier at Plum Hollow CC Detroit
1947 Jackie Robinson swipes home for 1st of 19 times in his career
1947 Jim Ferrier wins PGA golf tournament
1947 Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
1948 Republican Natl Convention in Phila nominates NY gov Thomas Dewey
1948 Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West with West Berlin impossible.
1949 A M de Jong's murderer, Ton van Gog arrested in Scheveningen Neth
1949 Cargo airlines 1st licensed by US Civil Aeronautics Board
1949 The first Television Western, Hopalong Cassidy, is aired on NBC starring William Boyd.
1950 Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins LPGA Western Women's Golf Open
1950 French government-Bidault resigns
1950 NY Giant Wes Westrum hits 3 HRs & a triple
1951 Persian army takes over nationalized oil installations
1953 KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" closes at Imperial NYC after 229 perf
1955 Harmon Killebrew hits his 1st HR (off Billy Hoeff)
1956 "Steve Allen Show," returns on NBC-TV
1956 2nd LPGA Championship won by Marlene Hagge
1956 WISC TV channel 3 in Madison, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1957 "I Love Lucy," last airs on CBS-TV
1957 In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment .
1960 Geoff Griffin takes a hat-trick South Africa v England Lord's
1961 "Happiest Girl in the World" closes at Martin Beck NYC after 97 perfs
1961 Beatles record "If You Love Me Baby"
1961 Iraq demands dominion over Kuwait
1962 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA J E McAuliffe Golf Tournament
1962 Jack Reed's 22nd-inning HR wins longest NY Yankee game in history
1963 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1963 Levi Eshkol forms Israeli government
1963 The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
1964 FTC rules health warnings must appear on all cigarette packages
1966 Bombay-NY Air India flight crashes into Mont Blanc (Switz), 117 die
1966 Period of relative peace following WW II exceeds that following WW I
1967 Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Sacerdotalis coelibatus
1967 Zaire adopts constitution
1968 14th LPGA Championship won by Sandra Post
1968 Australia all out for 78 v England at Lord's
1968 Deadline for redeeming silver certificate dollars for silver bullion
1968 Jim Northrup hits 2 grand-slammers to help Tigers beat Cleve 14-3
1968 Joe Frazier TKOs Manuel Ramos in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1968 Resurrection City in Wash DC closed permanently
1970 "Catch 22" opens in movie theaters
1970 Bobby Murcer ties record of 4 consecutive HRs
1970 Reds play final game at Cincinnati's Crosley Field, beat Giants 5-4
1970 Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1972 "Troglodyte (Cave Man)" by Jimmy Castor Bunch peaks at #6
1972 Wake Island becomes unincorporated territory of US (US Air Force)
1972 Yvonne Braitwaite Burke becomes 1st black chair in Dem convention
1973 Marlene Raymond (15), limboes under a flaming bar at 6 1/8"
1973 Susie Berning wins LPGA Heritage Village Golf Open
1974 India all out for 42 in Lord's Test cricket in 77 mins
1974 Steve Busby retires 1st 9 White Sox to set AL record with 33 consecutive batters retired
1975 An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.
1975 Moon tremor perceived (hit by Taurid meteors)
1976 1975 movie "Rocky Horror Picture Show" released in Germany
1977 IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1979 Rickey Henderson debuts for Oakland & steals his 1st base
1980 Affirmed wins $500,000 Hollywood Cup, 1st horse to win $2 million
1981 The Humber Bridge is opened to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years.
1982 British Airways Flight 9, sometimes referred to as "the Jakarta incident", flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines.
1982 Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat
1982 Jean-Loup Chretien, 1st spacionaut, 2 others, lift off (Soyuz T-16)
1982 Soyuz T-6 Launch (USSR)
1982 Supreme Court rules pres can't be sued for actions in office
1983 7th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 2 lands at Edwards AFB
1983 Don Sutton becomes 8th pitcher to strikeout 3,000 batters
1984 Joe Morgan sets career HR mark for 2nd basemen with #265
1984 Laurie Rinker wins LPGA Boston Five Golf Classic
1985 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 51-F
1985 18th Space Shuttle Mission STS-51-G Space Shuttle Discovery completes its mission, best remembered for having Sultan bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the first Arab and first Muslim in space, as a Payload Specialist.
1986 Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1986 US Senate approves "tax reform"
1987 CFL's Montreal Alouettes fold
1987 Salt Lake City Trappers begin pro baseball record 29 consec win streak
1988 Cleve pitcher Doug Jones sets record of 14 consecutive saves
1988 Red Sox begin AL record 23rd consecutive home win streak
1989 Cards Vince Coleman steals record 39th & 40th consecutive bases
1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1991 NHL adopts instant-replay & tenth of second clock in final minute
1992 Billy Joel, gets an honorary diploma from Hicksville HS at 43
1992 Commissioner Fay Vincent permanently bans Steve Howe from baseball
1992 Eddie Antar, CEO (Crazy Eddies), $74 m stock fraud caught in Israel
1992 John Gotti begins life sentence in jail
1993 Arab terror group plans bombing of Holland/Lincoln Tunnels caught
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.
1994 1st French "all news" TV (LCI) begins broadcasting
1994 A United States Air Force B-52 aircraft crashes at Fairchild Air Force Base, killing all four members of its crew.
1994 Jeff Bagwell of Astros is 28th to hit 2 HRs in an inning
1994 Sally Fields files for divorce from 2nd husband Alan Greisman
1995 Stanley Cup, NJ Devils sweep Detroit Red Wings in 4 games
1997 Mark McGwire hits a 538 foot home run
1997 Melissa Drexler, 18, charged with killing her baby during her prom
1997 Seat Mariner Randy Johnson strikes out 19 Oakland A's but loses
1997 USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies
2002 The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history.
2004 In New York state, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional.
2007 The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours.
2010 John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in tennis history.
2012 Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time
2012 Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood becomes President of Egypt
2013 Chicago Blackhawks defeat Boston Bruins 4-2 to win the Stanley Cup
2014 Rebels in Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire
2014 Sidney Crosby wins the Hart Memorial Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award for the 2014 NHL season
2015 Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price wins the 2014-15 Hart Trophy as the NHL's MVP
2016 British Prime Minister David Cameron resigns after the UK votes to leave the EU
Born on June 24th
1244 Hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen (1256-1308) (d. 1308)
1322 Johanna, duchess of Brabant/Limburg (Joyful Entry)
1343 Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373)
1386 Giovanni da Capistrano, Italian saint (d. 1456)
1485 Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (d. 1558)
1499 Johannes Brenz, German theologist (Dutch Brentians)
1519 Theodore Beza, French theologian (d. 1605)
1533 Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, English commander-in-chief in Netherlands (d. 1588)
1535 Joan of Spain, queen consort of Portugal (d. 1573)
1542 Juan de la Cruz (de Yepes), Spanish Carmelet, poet, and saint
1542 St. John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite mystic and poet (d. 1591)
1546 Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (A Letter Disclosure) (d. 1610)
1561 Rombout Hogerbeets, lawyer/pension minister of Leiden
1572 Jan Campanus, composer
1587 William Arnold, English, pioneer settler of Providence Plantation (d. 1675)
1590 Samuel Ampzing, poet (Taelbericht der Neth Spellinge)
1619 Rijcklof Volckertsz van Goens, governor-general (Neth East Indies)
1663 Jean Baptiste Massillon, French churchman (d. 1742)
1669 Francois van Aerssen, Dutch vice-admiral (Suriname/Algeria)
1687 Johann Albrecht Bengel, German scholar (d. 1757)
1694 Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss political theorist (d. 1748)
1704 Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French writer (d. 1771)
1746 Jean Baptiste Rochefort, composer
1747 Johann Melchior Dreyer, composer
1762 Johann Paul Wessely, composer
1771 E I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont)
1774 François Nicolas Benoît, Baron Haxo, French general (d. 1838)
1777 John Ross, British naval officer and explorer (d. 1856)
1795 Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878)
1797 John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx
1803 George James Webb, English-born composer (d. 1887)
1804 Stephan L Endlicher, Austrian priest/botanist
1804 Willard Richards, American religious leader (d. 1854)
1808 Anna Caroline Oury, composer
1811 John Archibald Campbell, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Assistant Secratary of War (Confederacy) (d. 1889)
1813 Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman and reformer (Independent) (d. 1887)
1820 Henry Rootes Jackson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1898)
1822 Birkett Davenport Fry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1891)
1825 Grand Duchess Alexandra Nikolaevna of Russia (d. 1844)
1826 George Goyder, surveyor-general of South Australia (d. 1898)
1832 Edward Harland, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1915)
1838 Gustav von Schmoller, German economist (Lectern Socialism)
1839 Gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift & Co
1840 Louis Brassin, composer
1842 Ambrose Bierce, American writer and satirist (Devil's Dictionary, Nuggets & Dust) (disappeared c. 1914)
1847 Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer
1848 Brooks Adams, US philosopher (Theory of Social Revolutions)
1850 Horatio Herbert Kitchener, English original Order of Merit member, British field marshal (d. 1916)
1852 Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister (1918)
1860 Mercedes of Orleans, queen of Spain (d. 1878)
1873 Thomas Carl Whitmer, composer
1877 Aleksei M Remizov, Russian writer (Iveren)
1879 Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancer
1882 Athanase David, Canadian politician and businessman (d. 1953)
1882 Carl Diem, German Olympic official (d. 1962)
1883 Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1964)
1886 George Shiels, Northern Irish dramatist (d. 1949)
1888 Gerrit T Rietveld, Dutch architect (Juliana Hall, Sonsbeek Pavillion) (d. 1964)
1891 Irving Pichel, Pitts PA, actor/director (Mme Butterfly, Oliver Twist)
1893 Roy O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company (d. 1971)
1895 Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", American heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26) (d. 1983)
1897 Daniel K. Ludwig, American shipping magnate (d. 1992)
1899 Bruce Marshall, writer
1899 Chief Dan George, actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man. Smith!)
1900 Memphis Minnie, rocker
1900 Wilhelm Cauer, German mathematician (d. 1945)
1901 Harry Partch, American composer (Oedipus) (d. 1974)
1903 Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver
1904 Kurt Kusenberg, German writer (Wein Auf Lebenszeit)
1904 Phil Harris, American singer, songwriter and comedian (Anything Goes, Robin Hood) (d. 1995)
1906 Pierre Fournier, French violon cellist (Paris Conservatoire) (d. 1986)
1906 Willard Maas, American educator and experimental filmmaker (d. 1971)
1907 Arseny Tarkovsky, Russian poet (d. 1989)
1907 Jose de Lima Siquiera, composer
1908 Alfons Rebane, Estonian military officer (d. 1976)
1908 Guru Gopinath, Indian classical dancer (d. 1987)
1908 Hugo Distler, German composer (d. 1942)
1909 Milton Katims, NYC, conductor/violist (WOR-NYC)
1909 William G Penney, British physicist (1st British Atom Bomb)
1910 Denis Dowling, baritone
1911 Ernesto Sábato, Argentinian writer
1911 Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine Formula One driver and five-time World Driving Champion (d. 1995)
1912 Brian Johnston, British cricket commentator (BBC radio) & cake connoisseur (d. 1994)
1912 Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review)
1912 Selwyn Powell, art editor
1913 John Kubris, Czech resistance fighter
1913 Max van Praag, Dutch singer
1914 Pearl Witherington CBE, British World War II secret agent (d. 2008)
1915 Charles James Dunn, Japanese scholar
1915 Fred Hoyle, British astronomer, cosmologist (proposed steady-state universe theory) (d. 2001)
1916 John Ciardi, poet/critic (translated Dante)
1919 Al Molinaro, American Actor (Murray-Odd Couple, Al-Happy Days)
1920 Bernhard Krol, composer
1920 James Eric Storrar, fighter Pilot
1921 Billy Casper, golfer
1922 Aadje (Alida WM) Lyre, Dutch twin daughter of Prince Hendrik
1922 Rietje (Maria SC) Lyre, Dutch twin daughter of Prince Hendrik
1922 Roy Elihu Travis, NYC, composer (Passion of Dedipus)
1922 Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (d. 1988)
1923 Jack Carter, Bkln NY, comedian/actor (Amazing Dobermans, Octagon)
1924 Brian Bevan, Australian rugby league footballer (d. 1991)
1924 Kurt Furgler, member of the Swiss Federal Council (d. 2008)
1924 Ranasinghe Premadasa, president of Sri Lanka (1989-93)
1925 Len Jagger, English businessman/multi-millionaire
1927 Joseph Pierce Jr, horse trainer
1927 Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1930 Claude Chabrol, French film director
1930 Herbert C Klien, (Rep-D-New Jersey)
1930 William B. Ziff, Jr., American publishing executive (d. 2006)
1931 Billy Casper, American golfer, 3-time PGA Player of Year ('66, '68, '70)
1931 Leslie Cochran, Miami, Florida, peace activist and police critic, (d. 2012)
1932 David McTaggart, co-founder (Greenpeace)
1933 Sam Jones, American basketball player
1934 Bob Holthus, horse trainer
1934 Jean-Pierre Ferland, Québec singer
1935 Pete Hamill, Brooklyn, NY, journalist (NY Post)
1935 Terry Riley, American composer (Spectra)
1938 Boris Lagutin, USSR, light-middleweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
1938 Don Mincher, Huntsville, Alabama, Major League Baseball first baseman, (d. 2012)
1938 Lawrence Block, American writer
1938 Lowell Cross, composer
1939 HA Schult, German artist
1939 Henry Lawrence Garett III, Miami Fla, Sect of Navy (1989-92)
1939 Michael Gothard, English actor (d. 1992)
1940 Vittorio Storaro, cinematographer (Taxi, Little Buddha, Dick Tracy)
1941 Graham McKenzie, cricketer (prolific Australian pace bowler 1961-71)
1941 Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst, and novelist
1942 Arthur Brown, England, rocker (Fire) [or May 24]
1942 Gerhart Roth, writer
1942 Michele Lee, American actress and singer (Karen-Knots Landing, Love Bug)
1943 Georg Stanford Brown, Havana Cuba, actor (Terry Webster-Rookies)
1944 Arthur Brown, English musician
1944 Chris Wood, English musician (Traffic) (d. 1983)
1944 Jeff Beck, English musician, singer and guitarist (The Yardbirds)
1944 John "Charlie" Whitney, English guitarist (Family, Streetwalkers, Axis Point)
1945 Betty Stove, Netherlands, tennis player (US Doubles 1972)
1945 Colin Blunstone, English musician (The Zombies)
1945 George E Pataki, American politician (Gov-R-NY, 1995)
1945 Wayne Cashman, Canadian ice hockey player
1946 David Collenette, Canadian politician
1946 Ellison S Onizuka, American astronaut (STS 51C, 51L-Chalenger disaster) (d. 1986)
1946 Robert Reich, American politician, US Sec of Labor (Clinton) and political commentator
1947 Marianne Delgorge, singer/actress (Ice Cream Soda)
1947 Mick Fleetwood, English musician, drummer (Fleetwood Mac)
1947 Peter Weller, American actor (Robocop, Of Unknown Origin)
1947 Walter Willison, Monterrey Park California, actor (McDuff the Talking Dog)
1948 Patrick Moraz, Swiss keyboard player (Yes)
1949 John Illsley, English bassist (Dire Straits)
1950 Derrick "Duckie" Simpson, Kingston Jamaica, rocker (Black Uhuru)
1950 Leon J P M Frissen, Dutch MP (CDA)
1950 Mercedes R Lackey, American sci-fi author (Arrow's Fall, Magic's Pawn)
1950 Nancy Allen, American actress (Carrie, 1941, Robocop, Dress to Kill)
1951 David Rodigan, radio DJ/actor
1951 Ivar Formo, Norway, 50K cross country skier (Olympic-gold-1976)
1951 Raelene Boyle, Australia, sprinter (Oly-Silver-72)
1952 Stephen Pusey, British-born artist
1953 Ivo Lill, Estonian artist
1955 Betsy Randle, American actress
1955 Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Guru of Siddha Yoga
1955 Loren Lloyd Roberts, San Luis Obispo CA, PGA golfer (Nestle-1994, 95)
1956 Joe Penny, English actor
1957 Astro (Terrence Wilson), English vocalist (UB40-Red Red Wine)
1957 Mark Parkinson, American politician, 45th governor of Kansas
1958 Jean Charest, Premier of Québec
1958 John Tortorella, American ice hockey coach (New York Rangers)
1958 Tom Lister, Jr., American actor and former professional wrestler
1958 Victor M Gerena, NYC, security guard robbed $7 million (FBI wanted)
1959 Andy McClusky, rocker (Orchestal Manoeveres in the Dark-Electricity)
1959 Rob Delahaye, soccer player (MVV)
1960 Erik Poppe, Norwegian film director
1960 Juli Inkster, Santa Cruz CA, LPGA golfer (Dinah Shore-1984, 89)
1960 Karin Pilsäter, Swedish politician
1960 Nate Carr, Erie Pa, freestyle wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1960 Siedah Garrett, American singer
1960 Trisha Meili, the "Central Park Jogger"
1961 Bernie Nicholls, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1961 Curt Smith, English musician and songwriter, bassist (Tears for Fears)
1961 Dennis Danell, American musician (Social Distortion) (d. 2000)
1961 Iain Glen, Scottish actor
1961 Jim Laver Carter, Spring Lake NC, PGA golfer (1995 Anheuser-Busch)
1961 Natalya Shaposhnikova, USSR, sidehorse vaulter (Olympic-gold-1980)
1963 Anatoly Borisovich Jurkin, Russian writer
1963 Duval Love, NFL guard (Arizona Cardinals)
1963 Mike Wieringo, American comic book artist (d. 2007)
1963 Preki, Serbian-born American soccer player
1964 David Daniel, jockey
1964 Gary Suter, American ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Chicago Blackhawks, USA)
1965 Danielle Spencer, Bronx, actress (Dee Thomas-What's Happening)
1965 Patrick Jeffrey, Morristown NJ, diver (Olympics-5th-96)
1965 Shane Churla, Fernie, NHL right wing (LA Kings, NY Rangers)
1965 Uwe Krupp, German ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Colo Avalanche, Germany 98)
1966 Adrienne Shelly, American actress, director and screenwriter (d. 2006)
1966 Hope Sandoval, American singer-songwriter
1966 John Randle, Chicoutimi Que, golfer (1992 Canadian Tour Fall-3rd)
1967 Bill Huard, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1967 Crystal Carson, Spaulding NE, actress (Cartel, Julia-General Hospital)
1967 Janez Lapajne, Slovenian film director
1967 Jeff Cease, Nashville, guitarist (Black Crowes-Shake Your Money Maker)
1967 John Limniatis, Greek-Canadian footballer
1967 Olaf Hampel, WLAF offensive linebacker (Frankfurt Galaxy, Rhein Fire)
1967 Richard Zven Kruspe (Bernstein), German musician (Rammstein)
1967 Scott Oden, American writer
1967 Sherry Stringfield, American actress (Laura-NYPD Blue, ER)
1968 Alaa Abdelnaby, Egyptian-born basketball player
1969 Melissa Gurney, California, tennis player (Virginia Slims of SD, 1986)
1969 Sean Maye, 400m/800m runner
1969 Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian singer
1969 Todd Lewis, Flint Michigan, 10k runner
1970 Carlos Yancy, NFL cornerback (NE Patriots)
1970 Glenn Medeiros, American singer (Someday Love)
1971 Christopher Showerman, American actor
1971 Ji Jin Hee, South Korean actor
1971 LaMonte Coleman, NFL fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 Denis Zvegelj, Slovenian rower
1972 Jose Simon, WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Mitch Berger, punter (Minnesota Vikings)
1972 Robbie McEwen, Australian cyclist
1972 Shawn King, NFL defensive end (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1973 Alexander Beyer, German actor
1973 Jere Lehtinen, Espoo Fin, NHL right wing (Dallas Stars, Oly-bronze-98)
1973 Ji Jin Hee, South Korean actor
1973 Michael Cheever, corner (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1974 Adam Treu, guard/tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1974 Carrie Zarse, Chicago Il, diver (Olympics-96)
1975 Carla Gallo, American actress
1975 Marek Malik, Czech ice hockey player
1976 Brock Olivo, American football player
1976 Louisa Leaman, English author
1976 Tyce Routson, Bellevue Wash, diver (Olympics-96)
1977 Cas Jansen, Dutch actor
1977 Cliff Bayer, NYC, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1977 Dimosthenis Dikoudis, Greek basketball player
1977 Jeff Farmer, Australian footballer
1978 Ariel Pink, American musician
1978 Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen, Finnish guitarist (Nightwish)
1978 Juan Román Riquelme, Argentine footballer
1978 Luis García, Spanish footballer
1978 Pantelis Kafes, Greek footballer
1978 Shunsuke Nakamura, Japanese footballer
1979 Craig Shergold, British internet folklore subject
1979 Mindy Kaling, American actress and TV producer
1979 Petra Nemcová, Czechoslovakian-born model
1980 Andrew Jones, Australian racing driver
1980 Cicinho, Brazilian footballer
1980 Kelly Dutra, Miss Rhode Island Teen USA (1996)
1980 Liane Balaban, Canadian actress
1980 Minka Kelly, American actress
1982 Brian Fitzgerald, American writer
1982 Clint Bajada, Maltese television and radio presenter
1982 Jarret Stoll, Canadian ice hockey player
1982 Kevin Nolan, English footballer
1982 Mark Penney, Canadian film director
1983 John Lloyd Cruz, Filipino Actor
1983 Rebecca Cooke, British swimmer
1984 J.J. Redick, American basketball player
1985 Kyle Searles, American actor
1985 Yukina Shirakawa, Japanese gravure idol
1986 Kaitlin Cullum, LA California, actress (Libby Kelly-Grace Under Fire)
1986 Phil Hughes, American baseball player
1986 Solange Knowles, American singer
1986 Stuart Broad, English cricketer
1987 Arturo Lupoli, Italian footballer
1987 Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
1988 Nichkhun Horvejkul, Thai-American singer active in South Korea as part of a group called 2PM
1990 Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player (New York Rangers)
1993 Primera, an Andean condor, hatched at Cleve Zoo, 5th born in captivity
Died on June 24th
803 Higbald of Lindisfarne
1398 Hongwu Emperor of China (b. 1328)
1439 Duke Frederick IV of Austria (b. 1382)
1475 Albrecht von Eyb, German parson (Bamberg & Eichstattt)
1519 Lucrezia Borgia, Duchess of Ferrara, daughter of Pope Alexander (b. 1480)
1520 Hosokawa Sumimoto, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1489)
1572 Adrianus van Gouda, lay brother, hanged
1572 Cornelis van Diest, lay brother, hanged
1572 Daniel van Arendonck, clergyman, hanged
1572 Joannes van Naarden, priest, hanged
1572 Ludovicus Voets, priest, hanged
1604 Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, Lord Great Chamberlain of England (b. 1550)
1629 Carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/writer
1637 Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer (b. 1580)
1643 John Hampden, English politician (b. 1595)
1652 Andries Bicker, merchant/Amsterdam regent
1673 John of Paffenrode, ruler of Ghussigny/poet, dies in battle
1707 Kaspar von Stieler, German linguist/poet
1712 Simon van der Stel, Dutch gov of Cape Colony (1679-99)
1724 Johann Theile, German composer (Adam und Eva)
1766 Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, French soldier (b. 1678)
1778 Pieter Burmann the Younger (P Burman), Dutch philologist (b. 1714)
1803 Matthew Thornton, Irish-American physician, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1714)
1817 Thomas McKean, American attorney, signer of the Declaration of Independence (b. 1734)
1835 Andreas Vokos Miaoulis, Greek admiral and politician, commander of Greek naval forces in Greek War of Independence (b. 1769)
1882 Joseph Joachim Raff, German opera composer (Cavatine)
1891 Ann Sheppard Mounsey, composer
1894 M(arie) F(rançois) Sadi Carnot, President of France (1887-94), murdered (b. 1837)
1908 Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th President of the United States (1885-89, 93-97) (b. 1837)
1909 Sarah Orne Jewett, American writer (b. 1849)
1913 Frank Lynes, composer
1922 Walther Rathenau, German Minister of Foreign Affairs, killed by anti-semites (b. 1867)
1931 Xiang Zhongfa, Head of Chinese Communist Party (b. 1880)
1933 Sissieretta Joyner Jones, "Black Patti", US singer
1935 Carlos Gardel, Argentine singer (airplane crash) (b. 1890)
1936 Nandor Zsolt, composer
1938 "Digger" Robertson, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885)
1944 Rio Gebhardt, composer
1946 Louise Whitfield Carnegie, American philanthropist (b. 1857)
1947 Emil Seidel, Mayor of Milwaukee, Wisconsin (b. 1864)
1952 Lodewijk Mortelmans, composer
1959 Lou Bandy, Dutch revue-artist (Life Ain't Bad), commits suicide
1962 Lucile Watson, actress (Great Lie, Model Wife, Florian)
1968 Tony Hancock, British comedian (b. 1924)
1969 Maria Belgado, entertainer
1969 Ted Hecht, actor (Time to Kill, Song of India, Gangster)
1969 Willey Ley, US science writer
1971 Jack Good, actor (Father Goose)
1971 John Dunning, cricketer (4 Tests for NZ 1933-37)
1971 Kenneth Washington, actor (Sgt Baker-Hogan's Heroes)
1973 Mary Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, 2nd Wife)
1976 Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (b. 1883)
1977 André-Gilles Fortin, Canadian politician (b. 1943)
1978 Robert Charroux, French writer (b. 1909)
1984 Clarence Campbell, Canadian National Hockey League president (b. 1905)
1984 William Keighley, dir (Man who came to Dinner)
1987 Hophnie Hobah Hines Johnson, cricketer (3 Tests for WI)
1987 Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (Honeymooners) (b. 1916)
1991 Martin Rosenblatt, actor (Splitz, Annie Hall, NY Stories)
1991 Rufino Tamayo, Mexican painter (b. 1899)
1991 Sumner Locke Elliott, Australian-born American novelist (b. 1917)
1992 Juris Podnieks, cameraman/director (Commandant), drowns
1992 Tom Alexander, model/actor (Kurt-Forbidden Dance)
1992 Tony LeMans, singer/songwriter, dies in a car crash
1994 Leonarda da Vinci MacLaren, founder of the LSE
1995 Inshan Ali, cricketer (WI chinaman bowler 1971-77)
1995 John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer
1995 John Richard Brinsley Norton, landowner
1996 Quinton Hazell, businessman
1997 Brian Keith, American actor (Family Affair), commits suicide (b. 1921)
1997 Don Hutson, American athlete (b. 1913)
2000 David Tomlinson, English actor (b. 1917)
2000 Vera Atkins, Romanian-born British intelligence officer (b. 1908)
2002 Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (b. 1913)
2003 Vladimir Garin, Russian actor (b. 1987)
2004 Ifigeneia Giannopoulou, Greek songwriter (b. 1957)
2005 Hakham Yedidia Shofet, Former chief rabbi of Iran (b. 1908)
2005 Paul Winchell, American voice actor and ventriloquist (b. 1922)
2006 Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey (b. 1956)
2007 Byron Baer, American politician (b. 1929)
2007 Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1967)
2007 Derek Dougan, Northern Irish footballer (b. 1938)
2007 Natasja Saad, Danish reggae and dancehall artist (b. 1974)
2008 Gerhard Ringel, Austrian mathematician (b. 1919)
2008 Ira Tucker, American gospel singer (The Dixie Hummingbirds) (b. 1925)
2009 Ed Thomas, well-known high school football coach from Iowa (b. 1951)
2009 Roméo LeBlanc, 25th Governor General of Canada (b. 1927)
2011 Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football manager (b. 1933)
2012 Lonesome George, Pinta giant tortoise and rarest creature in the world (about 100yo)
2013 Emilio Colombo, 40th Prime Minister of Italy (b. 1920)
2013 Alan Myers, American rock drummer (Devo)
2014 Eli Wallach, American actor
2015 Mario Biaggi, American politician (Rep-D/R-NY, 1969-88)
2016 Bernie Worrell, US keyboardist (Funkadelic-Cosmic Slop)
