Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/June 24
June 24: Battle of Carabobo Day in Venezuela (1821); Midsummer Day in Northern Europe, Fête nationale du Québec (Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day) in Québec, Canada.
- 1314 - Scotland regained independence as forces led by Robert the Bruce defeated Edward II of England in the Battle of Bannockburn (pictured).
- 1894 - Italian anarchist Sante Geronimo Caserio assassinated Marie François Sadi Carnot, President of the French Third Republic, after Carnot delivered a speech at a public banquet in Lyon, France.
- 1947 - First widely-reported post-World War II sighting of UFOs: American businessman and pilot Kenneth Arnold saw nine luminous disks in the form of saucers flying above the U.S. state of Washington near Mount Rainier.
- 1948 - The Soviet Union blocked access to the American, British, and French sectors of Berlin, cutting off all rail and road routes going into Soviet-controlled territory in Germany.