June 24
| 1314 | Scottish forces, led by Robert the Bruce, win an overwhelming victory against English King Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn. | |
| 1340 | The English fleet defeats the French fleet at Sluys, off the Flemish coast. | |
| 1497 | Explorer John Cabot lands in North America in present-day Canada. | |
| 1509 | Henry VIII is crowned King of England. | |
| 1664 | The colony of New Jersey, named after the Isle of Jersey, is founded. | |
| 1647 | Margaret Brent, demands a voice and a vote for herself in the Maryland colonial assembly. | |
| 1675 | King Philip's War begins. | |
| 1812 | Napoleon crosses the Nieman River and invades Russia. | |
| 1859 | At the Battle of Solferino, also known as the Battle of the Three Sovereigns, the French army, led by Napoleon III, defeats the Austrian army under Franz Joseph I. | |
| 1861 | Federal gunboats attack Confederate batteries at Mathias Point, Virginia. | |
| 1862 | U.S. intervention saves the British and French at the Dagu forts in China. | |
| 1896 | Booker T. Washington becomes the first African American to receive an honorary MA degree from Harvard University. | |
| 1910 | The Japanese army invades Korea. | |
| 1913 | Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria following border disputes over Macedonia and Thrace. | |
| 1931 | The Soviet Union and Afghanistan sign a treaty of neutrality. | |
| 1940 | France signs an armistice with Italy. | |
| 1941 | President Franklin Roosevelt pledges all possible support to the Soviet Union. | |
| 1943 | Royal Air Force Bombers hammer Muelheim, Germany, in a drive to cripple the Ruhr industrial base. | |
| 1948 | The Soviet Union begins the Berlin Blockade, America responds with the Berlin Airlift. | |
| 1953 | John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier announce their engagement. | |
| 1955 | Soviet MIG's down a U.S. Navy patrol plane over the Bering Strait. | |
| 1964 | The Federal Trade Commission announces that, starting in 1965, cigarette makers must include warning labels about the harmful effects of smoking. | |
| 1970 | The U.S. Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution |
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