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June 24

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French invasion of Russia

214 years ago

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1987

Lionel Messi

Turns 39

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844th

Francis of Assisi

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1182 · 844 yrs

Francis of Assisi

Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone (c. 1181 – 3 October 1226), known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans.

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ReligionDied aged 44

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1340 · 686 yrs

John of Gaunt

John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster (6 March 1340 – 3 February 1399), was an English prince, military leader and statesman. He was the fourth son (third surviving) of King Edward III, and the father of King Henry IV.

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PoliticsDied aged 58

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1542 · 484 yrs

John of the Cross

St. John of the Cross (Spanish: Juan de la Cruz; Latin: Ioannes a Cruce; né Juan de Yepes y Álvarez; 24 June 1542 – 14 December 1591) was a Spanish Catholic priest, mystic, and Carmelite friar.

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ReligionDied aged 49

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1591 · 435 yrs

Mustafa I

Mustafa I (Ottoman Turkish: مصطفى اول‎; Turkish: I. Mustafa; 1601 or 1602 – 20 January 1639) was twice the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 22 November 1617 to 26 February 1618, and from 20 May 1622 to 10 September 1623. He was the son of sultan Mehmed III and Halime Sultan.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 47

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1838 · 188 yrs

Jan Matejko

Jan Alojzy Matejko (Polish pronunciation:; also known as Jan Mateyko; 24 June 1838 – 1 November 1893) was a Polish painter, a leading 19th-century exponent of history painting, known for depicting nodal events from Polish history.

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ArtDied aged 55

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1850 · 176 yrs

Horatio Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener

Field Marshal Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener (24 June 1850 – 5 June 1916) was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. Kitchener came to prominence for his imperial campaigns, his involvement in the Second Boer War, and his central role in the early part of the First World War.

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MilitaryDied aged 65

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1883 · 143 yrs

Victor Francis Hess

Victor Franz Hess (German:; 24 June 1883 – 17 December 1964) was an Austrian–American experimental physicist who shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physics with Carl David Anderson for his discovery of cosmic rays.

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1904 · 122 yrs

Tadao Takayama

Tadao Takayama (高山忠雄, Takayama Tadao; June 24, 1904 – July 1, 1980) was a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

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1911 · 115 yrs

Juan Manuel Fangio

Juan Manuel Fangio (Spanish:, Italian:; 24 June 1911 – 17 July 1995) was an Argentine racing driver, who competed in Formula One from 1950 to 1958.

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1911 · 115 yrs

Ernesto Sabato

Ernesto Sabato (Spanish:; June 24, 1911 – April 30, 2011) was an Argentine novelist, essayist, painter, and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America".

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1915 · 111 yrs

Fred Hoyle

Sir Fred Hoyle (24 June 1915 – 20 August 2001) was an English astronomer. With Margaret and Geoffrey Burbidge and William Alfred Fowler, he formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis in the influential B2FH paper.

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ScienceWould be 111

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1925 · 101 yrs

Masanori Tokita

Masanori Tokita (Japanese 鴇田正憲, Tokita Masanori; June 24, 1925 – March 5, 2004) was a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team.

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1398 · 628 yrs

Hongwu Emperor

The Hongwu Emperor (21 October 1328 – 24 June 1398), personal name Zhu Yuanzhang, was the founding emperor of the Ming dynasty of China, reigning from 1368 to 1398.

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RoyaltyDied aged 69

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1519 · 507 yrs

Lucrezia Borgia

Lucrezia Borgia (18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519) was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She was a former governor of Spoleto.

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SportsDied aged 39

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1768 · 258 yrs

Marie Leszczyńska

Marie Leczinska (born Maria Karolina Zofia Felicja Leszczyńska; 23 June 1703 – 24 June 1768) was Queen of France as the wife of King Louis XV from their marriage on 4 September 1725 until her death in 1768.

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RoyaltyDied aged 65

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1908 · 118 yrs

Grover Cleveland

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837 – June 24, 1908) was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, serving from 1885 to 1889 and from 1893 to 1897. He was the first Democrat elected president after the American Civil War and the first U.S. president to serve nonconsecutive terms.

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PoliticsDied aged 71

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1935 · 91 yrs

Carlos Gardel

Carlos Gardel (born Charles Romuald Gardès; 11 December 1890 – 24 June 1935) was a French-born Argentine singer, composer and actor, and the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He was one of the most influential interpreters of popular music in the first half of the 20th century.

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MusicWould be 138

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1957 · 69 yrs

Alfred Döblin

Bruno Alfred Döblin (German:; 10 August 1878 – 26 June 1957) was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

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1987 · 39 yrs

Jackie Gleason

Herbert John Gleason (born Herbert Walton Gleason Jr.; February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987), known as Jackie Gleason, was an American comedian, actor, writer, and composer also known as "The Great One".

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FilmWould be 110

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2008 · 18 yrs

Leonid Hurwicz

Leonid Hurwicz (Polish pronunciation:; August 21, 1917 – June 24, 2008) was a Polish–American economist and mathematician, known for his work in game theory and mechanism design.

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ScienceWould be 109

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2013 · 13 yrs

Emilio Colombo

Emilio Colombo (Italian:; 11 April 1920 – 24 June 2013) was an Italian politician. A member of the Christian Democracy party, he served as Prime Minister of Italy from August 1970 to February 1972.

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PoliticsWould be 106

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2014 · 12 yrs

Eli Wallach

Eli Herschel Wallach ( EE-ly WOL-ək; December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television, and stage actor from New York City. Known for his character actor roles, his entertainment career spanned over six decades.

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FilmWould be 110

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2021 · 5 yrs

Benigno Aquino III

Benigno Simeon "Noynoy" Cojuangco Aquino III (locally; February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021), also known colloquially as PNoy, was the 15th president of the Philippines, serving from 2010 to 2016.

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PoliticsWould be 66

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Events5

1340 · 686 yrs

Battle of Sluys

The Battle of Sluys ( SLOYZ, Dutch:), was a naval battle fought on 24 June 1340 between England and France. It took place in the roadstead of the port of Sluys, on a since silted-up inlet between Zeeland and West Flanders.

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War

1812 · 214 yrs

French invasion of Russia

The French invasion of Russia, also known as the Russian campaign, the Second Polish War, and in Russia as the Patriotic War of 1812, was initiated by Napoleon with the aim of forcing the Russian Empire to comply with the continental blockade of the United Kingdom.

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War

1859 · 167 yrs

Battle of Solferino

The Battle of Solferino (referred to in Italy as the Battle of Solferino and San Martino) on 24 June 1859 was the climactic battle of the Second Italian War of Independence and resulted in the victory of the allied French army under Napoleon III and the Piedmont-Sardinian army under Victor Emmanuel II (together known…

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War

2018 · 8 yrs

2018 French Grand Prix

The 2018 French Grand Prix (formally known as the Formula 1 Pirelli Grand Prix de France 2018) was a Formula One motor race that took place on 24 June 2018 at the Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, France.

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Sports

2026 · 0 yrs

2026 Venezuela earthquakes

On 24 June 2026, doublet large strike-slip earthquakes affected northwestern and central Venezuela. The epicenter of the first earthquake was in Veroes Municipality, west of San Felipe, the capital city of Yaracuy.

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