Talk: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 Quebec, 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.

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