Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 24
June 24: Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821), Fête nationale du Québec (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day) in Québec, Canada
- 1128 - Alfonso I of Portugal fought the Battle of São Mamede, the first step toward Portuguese independence.
- 1314 - Scotland regained independence as forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II of England in the Battle of Bannockburn (pictured).
- 1440 - Eton College in Berkshire, England, was founded by King Henry VI to provide free education to poor students who would then go on to King's College, Cambridge.
- 1535 - The Anabaptist state of Münster was conquered and subsequently disbanded.
- 1597 - The first Dutch voyage to the East Indies reached Bantam on Java.
- 1947 - First widely-reported post-WWII sighting of UFOs: Kenneth Arnold saw nine luminous disks in the form of saucers flying above the U.S. state of Washington.