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Historical events & facts — June 24
What happened on June 24?
On June 24, 1314, the Scottish army of King Robert I Bruce decisively defeated the English army of King Edward II at the Battle of Bannockburn — the greatest military victory in Scottish history. The battle, in which the Scots used "schiltron" pike formations to resist the English cavalry, secured the independence of Scotland recognised in the Treaty of Edinburgh-Northampton (1328).
On June 24, 1947, American pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing nine bright disc-shaped flying objects over Mount Rainier, Washington, giving birth to the term "flying saucer" — though Arnold actually described their motion, not their shape — and to the modern UFO (unidentified flying object) phenomenon. Since then, UFO sightings have multiplied across the world.
On June 24, 1821, Simón Bolívar's army defeated Spanish forces at the Battle of Carabobo, securing the independence of Venezuela. The battle, fought on the Venezuelan plains, was one of the most decisive in the Latin American wars of independence. June 24 is today Venezuelan Army Day in commemoration of this definitive victory.
Notable birthdays — June 24
Famous people born on June 24
Elizabeth of Denmark, Electress of Brandenburg
Elizabeth of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden was a Danish princess who became Electress of Brandenburg as the wife of Joachim I Nestor, Elector of Brandenburg. She was the daughter of King Hans of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, and Christina of Saxony.
Jean Metzinger
Jean Dominique Antony Metzinger was a major 20th-century French painter, theorist, writer, critic and poet, who along with Albert Gleizes wrote the first theoretical work on Cubism. His earliest works, from 1900 to 1904, were influenced by the neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat and Henri-Edmond Cross.
William Penney, Baron Penney
William George Penney, Baron Penney, was an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics at the Imperial College London and later the rector of Imperial College London. He had a leading role in the development of High Explosive Research, Britain's clandestine nuclear programme that started in 1942 during the Second World War which produced the first British atomic bomb in 1952.
John Ciardi
John Anthony Ciardi was an American poet, translator, and etymologist.
James B. Edwards
James Burrows Edwards was an American politician and administrator from South Carolina. He was the first Republican to be elected governor of South Carolina since the post-Civil War Reconstruction era in the 1870s. He later served as the U.S. secretary of energy under Ronald Reagan.
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