June 24th (2012) was a Sunday. It's the 174th day of the year (175th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 191 days left to the end of the year.
Historical Events for 24th June, 2012
» Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies.
June 24th Famous Deaths for 2012
» Darrel Akerfelds, American baseball player and coach (b. 1962)
» Gad Beck, German educator and author (b. 1923)
» Gu Chaohao, Chinese mathematician and academic (b. 1926)
» Jean Cox, American tenor (b. 1922)
» Youssef Dawoud, Egyptian actor (b. 1938)
» Lonesome George, Ecuadorian tortoise (b. 1910)
» Miki Roqué, Spanish footballer (b. 1988)
» Ann C. Scales, American lawyer, educator, and activist (b. 1952)
June 24th Holidays in History
» Battle of Bannockburn known as Bannockburn Day (Scotland)
» Battle of Carabobo or Battle of Carabobo Day (Venezuela)
» Christian Feast Day:
» Nativity of St. John the Baptist
» June 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
» Caboclo or Day of the Caboclo (Amazonas (Brazilian state) e.g Amazonas State, Brazil)
» Discovery Day, observed on the nearest Monday (Newfoundland and Labrador)
» Inti Raymi, a winter solstice festival and a New Year in the Andes of the Southern Hemisphere (Sacsayhuamán)