Holidays Calendar for June 24, 2016

Battle of Carabobo Day is a Venezuelan public holiday celebrated on June 24. It honors both the key battle in the Venezuelan War of Independence and the nativity of Saint John the Baptist. It is also referred to as Army Day.

The Nativity of St John the Baptist is a Christian feast day that celebrates the birth of a major religious figure in Christianity, John the Baptist. It is celebrated on June 24.

World UFO Day is an annual awareness day that celebrates the alleged existence of unidentified flying objects and extraterrestrial life. The observance has two possible dates: June 24 to commemorate the Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting and July 2 to commemorate the Roswell UFO incident. Both of these UFO sightings occurred in 1947.

History is one of the most important sciences because without knowing our past we cannot predict and shape our future. World History Day is celebrated annually on June 24 to recognize the importance of history in our lives.

Rosé is probably one of the world’s most misunderstood and underrated wine styles. A lot of people believe rosé to be an inexpensive summertime wine that doesn’t have much to offer. However, in reality rosé is just as versatile as red or white wine. International Rosé Day is celebrated annually on the fourth Friday of June to educate the general public about this amazing style of wine and dispel common misconceptions about it.

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National Midwife Day (Hari Bidan Nasional) is celebrated in Indonesia annually on June 24. It was established to highlight the contribution of midwifes to healthcare and foster unity and sisterhood among Indonesian midwives.

Arbor Day in Nicaragua is celebrated on the last Friday in June. It was officially established by the government in 1971 and has been observed every year ever since. However, the celebration dates back to 1929, when June 1 of that year was set aside as the day to honor Nicaraguan forests.

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Inti Raymi is a traditional winter solstice celebration in Peru. It was originally held on the actual day of the winter solstice in the Southern Hemisphere (June 21), but the celebration was eventually moved to the feast day of Saint John the Baptist, June 24.

On June 24, Brazilians celebrate Caboclo Day (Dia do Caboclo). This is an annual observance that honors one of the country’s ethnic groups. This date is an official public holiday in the state of Amazonas.

Bannockburn Day is a Scottish observance held on June 24 every year. It commemorates a significant Scottish victory in the First War of Scottish Independence that is considered an important landmark in Scottish history.

On June 24, the Canadian province of Quebec celebrates its National Day. It is an official public holiday in Quebec, and its celebration is sometimes even greater in scale than that of Canada Day, a federal holiday and the national day of the entire country.

Manila Day is an official holiday in the National Capital Region of the Philippines. It is celebrated on June 24 to commemorate the arrival of the Spanish conquistador Miguel López de Legazpi and the founding of Spanish Manila in 1571.

June 24 is National Pralines Day. Praline, perhaps, is the most complex term in confectionery, because it may refer to anything.

The last Friday of June is a perfect day to support your favorite local food truck by purchasing something delicious from it because it is National Food Truck Day. This amazing holiday has been celebrated annually since 2016.

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St John's Day is the feast day of Saint John the Baptist observed by the Catholics and some Protestants in many countries on June 24. This religious holiday is strongly connected with the pre-Christian Midsummer celebrations.

The International Day for Women in Diplomacy is a United Nations observance held annually on June 24. It was created to highlight the contributions of women to diplomacy, which have historically been overlooked.

Take Your Dog to Work Day is an annual event typically held on a Friday following Father's Day (the third Sunday in June). It was created by Pet Sitters International (PSI), the largest educational for professional pet sitters in the world.

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This Day in History

  • 2013 Died: Emilio Colombo, Italian politician, Prime Minister of Italy from 1970 to 1972 and active in European politics. He was appointed in 2003 to bean Italian senator for life, this seat he held till his death.
  • 2013 Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was found guilty of power abuse and having sex with an underage prostitute. He was sentenced to 7 years in prison.
  • 2012 Died Lonesome George, the last known individual of Pinta giant tortoise. Most of the tortoise of this species were wiped out due to hunting by the mid of the 20th century. The last single male Lonesome George was discovered on Pinta Island in 1971.
  • 2010 Julia Gillard assumed office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia.
  • 1987 Died: Jackie Gleason, American actor and singer, best known for his visual and verbal comedy style. His most notable works were The Hustler, Smokey and the Bandit series, The Honeymooners.
  • 1967 Born: Richard Z. Kruspe, German guitarist, best known as a co-founding member and guitarist of German band Rammstein and founder of an alternative metal band Emigrate.
  • 1953 Born: William E. Moerner, American chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate for discovery of method in which fluorescence in individual molecules is steered by light.
  • 1950 Born: Nancy Allen, American actress, cancer activist. She began acting in the mid-1970 and gained world recognition in the 1980s for roles in Strange Invaders, The Philadelphia Experiment, Poltergeist, Limit Up, and the RoboCop trilogy.
  • 1948 The Soviet Union started Berlin blockade, making overland travel between West Germany and West Berlin impassible.
  • 1947 Born: Peter Weller, American actor and director, best known as the title character in blockbuster hits RoboCop and RoboCop 2. He also appeared in Mighty Aphrodite, The New Age, Naked Lunch etc.
  • 1935 Died: Carlos Gardel, Argentinian singer-songwriter and actor, the most prominent figure in the history of tango. He died in an airplane crash on the top of his career, becoming an archetypal tragic hero mourned throughout Latin America.
  • 1932 The People's Party of Thailand (then-Siam) instigated a bloodless revolution. It ended the absolute power of King Prajadhipok and changed the system of the country to constitutional monarchy.
  • 1927 Born: Martin Lewis Perl, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Physics laureate for discovery of the tau lepton, an elementary particle similar to the electron.
  • 1922 Died: Walther Rathenau, German businessman and politician, served as Foreign Minister of Germany during the Weimar Republic. Rathenau's assassination strengthened the republic and his death was perceived by many as a martyr-like sacrifice for democracy.
  • 1916 Mary Pickford, Canadian-American actress, became the first female film star to sign a million dollar contract.
  • 1909 Died: Sarah Orne Jewett, American author and poet, best remembered for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine. She is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism.
  • 1908 Died: Grover Cleveland, American politician, the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, the only one politician to become President of the USA twice.
  • 1893 Born: Roy O. Disney, American businessman, together with his younger brother Walt Disney he co-founded Walt Disney Productions, now known as The Walt Disney Company.
  • 1883 Born: Victor Francis Hess, Austrian-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate for discovery of cosmic rays.
  • 1842 Born: Ambrose Bierce, American journalist and author, best known for compiling a satirical lexicon dictionary, The Devil's Dictionary.
  • 1835 Born: Johannes Wislicenus, German chemist, best known for his work in early stereochemistry. He was the first to discover substances with different physical properties but with an identical chemical structure.
  • 1821 The Battle of Carabobo, the decisive battle in the war of independence of Venezuela from Spain, was won by Venezuelan General Simón Bolívar. The victory in the battle eventually led to the independence of Venezuela.
  • 1812 Napoleon's Grande Armée crosses the Neman River beginning the invasion of Russia.
  • 1795 Died: William Smellie, Scottish master printer, naturalist and encyclopedist, known as the first editor of the the Encyclopædia Britannica.
  • 1795 Born: Ernst Heinrich Weber, German physician and psychologist, one of the founders of experimental psychology. His studies on sensation and touch along with his emphasis on good experimental techniques gave way to new directions and areas of study for future psychologists, physiologists, and anatomists.
  • 1793 France adopted its first Republican Constitution.
  • 1637 Died: Nicolas-Claude Fabri de Peiresc, French astronomer. He maintained a wide correspondence with scientists and was a successful organizer of scientific inquiry. He researched, among other issues, a determination of the difference in longitude of various locations in Europe, around the Mediterranean, and in North Africa.
  • 1571 Spanish navigator Miguel Lopez de Legazpi founded Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines.
  • 1519 Died: Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Italian wife of Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara. She was often cast as a femme fatale, a tole she portrayed in many artworks and novels.
  • 1398 Died: Hongwu Emperor of China, the founder and the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, that ruled China for 276 years.