June 24

Today in History
• 1128 - Afonso I of Portugal defeats army of his mother Theresa
• 1314 - Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
• 1322 - Jews are expelled from France for 3rd time
• 1441 - Eton College founded in England by Henry VI
• 1497 - John Cabot claims parts of North America for England
• 1648 - Cossacks slaughter 2,000 Jews and 600 Polish Catholics in Ukraine
• 1664 - Colony of New Jersey founded
• 1717 - 1st Free Masons' grand lodge founded in London


Holidays - Traditional and Obscure
• ARRL Field Day
• Farmer Day
• International St. Johns Day
• Inti Raymi
• Jani
• National Summersgiving Day
• Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day
• St John's Day (Venezuela)

Birthdays
• 1244 - Hendrik I, the Child, 1st count of Hessen, 1256-1308
• 1546 - Robert Parsons, English jesuit, A Letter Disclosure
• 1619 - Rijcklof Volckertsz van Goens, governor-general, Netherlands East Indies
• 1771 - E I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist, Du Pont
• 1797 - John Hughes, archbishop, founded Fordham University in the Bronx
• 1839 - Gustavus Franklin Swift, founded Swift and Co
• 1850 - Horatio Herbert Kitchener, England, original Order of Merit member
• 1852 - Victor Adler, Austrian Foreign minister, 1918