Born on June 24
June 24 birthdays & history
If you were born on June 24, you share a birthday with Lionel Messi, Ambrose Bierce and Claudia Sheinbaum. June 24 babies are Cancer, with pearl as their birthstone and the rose as their birth flower. June 24 is the 176th day of the year in leap years (175th in other years).
Famous people born on June 24
- 1987Lionel Messi, Argentine footballer
- 1842Ambrose Bierce, American short story writer, essayist, and journalist
- 1962Claudia Sheinbaum, Mexican politician
- 1883Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1911Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine race car driver
- 1941Julia Kristeva, Bulgarian-French psychoanalyst and author
- 1927Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1911Ernesto Sabato, Argentine physicist and academic
- 1915Fred Hoyle, English astronomer and author
- 1992David Alaba, Austrian footballer
What happened on June 24
- 1724On the Feast of St. John the Baptist, Bach led the first performance of Christ unser Herr zum Jordan kam, BWV 7, the third cantata of his chorale cantata cycle.
- 1880"O Canada", the present-day national anthem of Canada, was first performed in Quebec City during a Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day banquet.
- 1913Greece and Serbia annul their alliance with Bulgaria.
- 1916Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to sign a million-dollar contract.
- 1918First airmail service in Canada from Montreal to Toronto.
- 1922The American Professional Football Association is renamed the National Football League.
- 1939The first of the Thai cultural mandates was issued, officially changing the country's name from Siam to Thailand.
- 1939Siam is renamed Thailand by Plaek Phibunsongkhram, the country's third prime minister.
- 1947Kenneth Arnold makes the first widely reported UFO sighting near Mount Rainier, Washington.
- 1949The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC.
- 1957In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment.
- 1963The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
Also observed on June 24
- Bannockburn Day (Scotland)
- Day of the Caboclo (Amazonas, Brazil)
- Inti Raymi, a winter solstice festival and a New Year in the Andes of the Southern Hemisphere (Sacsayhuamán)
- Fors Fortuna, ancient Roman festival to Fortuna
Questions, answered
What star sign is June 24?
People born on June 24 are Cancer. Their birthstone is pearl and their birth flower is the rose.
Which famous people were born on June 24?
Lionel Messi (1987), Ambrose Bierce (1842), Claudia Sheinbaum (1962), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Juan Manuel Fangio (1911), Julia Kristeva (1941) were all born on June 24.
What happened on June 24 in history?
Among other things: in 1949, The first television western, Hopalong Cassidy, starring William Boyd, is aired on NBC; in 1957, In Roth v. United States, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment; in 1963, The United Kingdom grants Zanzibar internal self-government.
Can I get a newspaper front page from June 24?
Yes. The Birthday Gazette makes a personalised vintage-style front page for any June 24 birth year, with their name in the headline, events, famous birthdays and typical US prices. The preview is free and the print files cost $9.
Events, birthdays and observances are adapted from Wikipedia contributors, “June 24”, English Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 (shortened and filtered). Ranking uses Wikidata (CC0). Sources.