June 24 is the 175th day of the year (176th in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 190 days left until the end of the year.

Railways

• June 24, 1940 The Çamlık-Aziziye railway tunnel is opened near Izmir.

Olaylar

• 1441 – King of England VI. Henry founded Eton College.
• 1542 – Spanish explorer Francisco de Orellana named the river “Woman warrior (Amazon)” because it was attacked by the Icamiaba Indians on the banks of the Amazon River in South America, describing its ruler as “women warriors” .
• 1645 – The Ottoman army, leaving Istanbul with 348 warships and transport ships, landed on the island of Crete.
• 1859 – Battle of Solferino: The Austrian Empire loses its war against an alliance of France and the Kingdom of Sardinia. The Swiss businessman Jean Henry Dunant, who followed this war, started the process of creating the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
• 1894 – The International Olympic Committee decides to organize the Olympic Games every four years.
• 1901 – The works of Pablo Picasso are exhibited for the first time.
• 1910 – Japan invades Korea.
• 1916 – World War I: The Battle of the Somme begins with a week of artillery fire against German lines in France.
• 1917 – At the meeting held in Aleppo with the participation of Turkish and German commanders (including Mustafa Kemal Pasha) under the chairmanship of Enver Pasha, it was decided to create a “Lightning Army Group” under the command of General Falkenhein.
• 1935 – The law of the General Directorate of Administration of Electrical Works is accepted.
• 1936 – The Turkish national basketball team played their first game against Greece, winning 49-12.
• 1938 – The law on the establishment of the Turkish Cereal Board is accepted.
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• 1947 – An American reported seeing objects flying in the sky, claiming the objects looked like saucers. The press began to use the term “flying saucer” for the first time.
• 1961 – The first convoy of workers to Germany leaves. The labor dispatch protocol was signed between Turkey and West Germany on June 13, and attempts have been made to prevent private organizations from sending workers without contracts.
• 1967 – Istanbul university students protest the visit of the U.S. 6th Fleet.
• 1973 – Eamon de Valera, 90, resigns as President of Ireland.
• 1976 – “Best Film Award” at the 13th Golden Orange Film Festival, directed by Atıf Yılmaz Mad joseph got the movie.
• 1982 – Start of the trial of the Association for Peace with 44 defendants.
• 1983 – Yasser Arafat is banned from entering Damascus.
• 1983 – Space Shuttle Challenger completes its space mission and returns to Earth with Sally Ride, the first female astronaut sent into space by the United States.
• 1989 – Bulgarian oppression of the Turkish minority and forced migration were protested at the “Bulgarian Telin Rally” held in Taksim Square.
• 1992 – The Turkish Confederation of Public Employees Trade Unions (Turkey Kamu-Sen) is established.
• 2001 – At the Special Olympics European Football Championship in Poland, the mentally disabled national team became champion.

births

• 1491 – VIII. Henry, King of England (died 1547)
• 1542 – John of the Cross, Spanish Carmelite priest, mystic (died 1591)
• 1788 – Silvio Pellico, Italian patriot, poet and playwright (died 1854)
• 1806 Julius von Leypold, German painter (died 1874)
• 1842 – Ambrose Bierce, American journalist and author (died 1914)
• 1852 – Victor Adler, Austrian socialist (died 1918)
• 1883 – Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics (died 1964)
• 1890 – Milunka Savić, Serbian woman soldier and folk hero (died 1973)
• 1895 – Jack Dempsey, American heavyweight boxing champion (died 1983)
• 1895 – Robert von Ranke Graves, English scholar, poet and novelist (died 1985)
• 1900 – Raphael Lemkin, Polish lawyer (died 1959)
• 1905 – Georgia Hale, American actress of the silent movie era (died 1985)
• 1906 Pierre Fournier, French cellist (died 1986)
• 1911 – Ernesto Sabato, Argentine writer (died 2011)
• 1912 – Mary Wesley, English writer (died 2002)
• 1917 – César Boutteville, French chess player (died 2015)
• 1923 – Cesare Romiti, Italian economist and businessman (died in 2020)
• 1924 – Kurt Furgler, Swiss politician (died 2008)
• 1930 – Claude Chabrol, French director (died 2010)
• 1934 – Ferdinand Biwersi, former German football referee (died 2013)
• 1935 – Juan Bautista Aguero, former Paraguayan footballer (died 1935)
• 1938 – Ebulfez Elçibey, Azerbaijani politician and 2nd President of Azerbaijan (d. 2000)
• 1938 Lawrence Block, American writer
• 1939 – Samed Behrengi, Azeri-Iranian teacher and writer of children’s stories and folktales (died 1967)
• 1941 – Erkin Koray, Turkish musician
• 1941 – Julia Kristiva, theorist of Franco-Bulgarian literature, psychoanalyst, writer and philosopher
• 1942 – Mick Fleetwood, English musician and actor (Fleetwood Mac)
• 1942 – Eduardo Frei Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean politician
• 1944 – Jeff Beck, English musician
• 1947 – Peter Weller, American actor and director
• 1949 – John Illsey, English musician
• 1953 – Garry Shider, American musician and guitarist (died 2010)
• 1955 – Sadi Güven, Turkish judge
• 1957 – Angela Roy, German actress and director
• 1960 – Siedah Garrett, American singer and songwriter
• 1961 – Iain Glen, Scottish film and theater actor
• 1962 – Christine Neubauer, German actress and presenter
• 1962 – Gökhan Hotamışlıgil, Turkish academic and medical doctor
• 1964 – Can Doğan, Turkish theater artist
• 1964 – Serap Aksoy, Turkish actress of theater, cinema and television series
• 1967 – Richard Kruspe, German musician
• 1968 – Boris Gelfand, Israeli chess grandmaster and chess writer
• 1969 – Sissel Kyrkjebø, Norwegian soprano
• 1972 – Robbie McEwen, retired Australian road cyclist
• 1973 – Alexander Beyer, German actor
• 1973 – Onur Ünlü, Turkish screenwriter, director, producer, poet, musician and actor
• 1974 – Sinan Shamil Sam, Turkish professional boxer (died 2015)
• 1977 – Francine Jordi, Swiss singer
• 1978 – Juan Roman Riquelme, Argentine footballer
• 1978 – Emppu Vuorinen, Finnish musician and songwriter
• 1980 – Cicinho, Brazilian actor
• 1980 – Minka Kelly, American actress
• 1982 – Joanna Kulig, Polish film and television actress
• 1986 – Harrison Afful, Ghanaian football player
• 1986 – Solange Knowles, American dancer, singer and sister of Beyonce Knowles
• 1987 – LiSA, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1987 – Lionel Messi, Argentinian football player
• 1988 – Micah Richards, English football player
• 1990 – Richard Sukuta-Pasu, German football player
• 1992 – David Alaba, Austrian national football player
• 1992 – Isaac Kiese Thelin, Swedish national football player
• 2000 – Nehuén Pérez, Argentine footballer

Armed

• 444 – Cyril of Alexandria, Father of the Church and Doctor (born in 375)
• 1241 – II. Ivan Asen, Emperor of Bulgaria from 1218 to 1241 under the Second Bulgarian Empire
• 1398 – Zhu Yuanzhang, founder and first emperor of the Ming dynasty (born 1328)
• 1407 – Theodoros I Paleologos, despot of the Peloponnese from 1383 until his death on June 24, 1407 (despot) (born in 1355)
• 1860 – Jérôme Bonaparte, younger brother of Napoleon I (born in 1784)
• 1908 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (born 1837)
• 1909 – Sara Orne Jewett, American writer (born 1849)
• 1922 – Alexander Antonov, member of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, later leader of Tambov’s uprising against the Soviet regime (born 1888)
• 1922 – Walther Rathenau, politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs during the Weimar Republic (born 1867)
• 1935 – Carlos Gardel, Argentine tango singer (born 1890)
• 1936 – Alice Davenport, American actress (born 1864)
• 1943 – Otto Rühle, German Marxist (born 1874)
• 1952 – George Pearce, Australian politician (born 1870)
• 1958 – Herbert Brenon, Irish director (born 1880)
• 1960 – İsmail Hakkı Tonguç, Turkish educator and founder of village institutes (born 1893)
• 1987 – Jackie Gleason, American actor and musician (born 1916)
• 1993 – Archie Williams, African-American athlete and trainer (born 1915)
• 1997 – Brian Keith, American actor (born 1921)
• 2000 – Güven Erkaya, Turkish soldier and 16th commander of the naval forces (born 1938)
• 2002 – Pierre Werner, Prime Minister of Luxembourg (born in 1913)
• 2007 – Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler (born 1967)
• 2011 – Tomislav Ivić, Croatian football player and coach (born 1933)
• 2012 – Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician, educator and scientist (born 1926)
• 2012 – Lonesome George, last Galapagos giant tortoise (born 1910)
• 2012 – Miki Roqué, former Spanish footballer (born 1988)
• 2013 – Emilio Colombo, Italian diplomat and politician (born 1920)
• 2014 – Ramón José Velásquez, Venezuelan historian, journalist, lawyer and politician (born in 1916)
• 2014 – Eli Wallach, American actress (born in 1915)
• 2016 – Asım Can Gündüz, Turkish guitarist (born 1955)
• 2017 – Véronique Robert, Franco-Swiss war correspondent (born 1962)
• 2018 – Costance Adams, American architect and author (born 1964)
• 2018 – Stanley Anderson, American actor (born 1939)
• 2018 – Frank Heart, American computer engineer (born 1929)
• 2018 – Josip Pirmajer, former Slovenian footballer (born 1944)
• 2018 – Pavel Vransky, II. Czech soldier in World War II (born 1921)
• 2019 – Jeff Austin, American mandolinist and singer (born 1974)
• 2019 – Billy Drago, American professional television and film actor (born 1945)
• 2019 – Yekaterina Illarionova Dyomina, Russian military doctor (born 1925)
• 2019 – Jörg Stubner, former German professional football player (born 1965)
• 2020 – Gösta Ågren, Finnish writer and poet (born 1936)
• 2020 – Marc Fumaroli, French writer and specialist in French literature (born in 1932)
• 2020 – Mohammed Yasin Mohammed, Iraqi weightlifter (born 1963)