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Events on June 24

• 1038 The oldest dated bell in Germany, the Lullus Bell, is cast in Bad Hersfeld.
• 1535 After a siege lasting almost one and a half years, troops of Bishop Franz von Waldeck take the city of Münster, where the Anabaptists led by Bernd Rothmann, Jan van Leiden, Heinrich Krechting, Bernd Krechting and Bernd Knipperdolling have established the Anabaptist kingdom of Münster, and begin a bloodbath in the city.
• 1859 In the Battle of Solferino, Napoleon III defeats Austria. Under the impression of the conditions after the battle, Henry Dunant founds the International Committee of the Aid Societies for the Care of the Wounded, which would later become the Red Cross. The Battle of San Martino also takes place on the same day.
• 1922 The German Foreign Minister Walther Rathenau is assassinated by members of the right-wing extremist secret society Organisation Consul. He was denounced by the political right because of his Jewish ancestors and because of the signing of the Treaty of Rapallo with Soviet Russia.
• 1933 The National Socialist German Reich under Adolf Hitler bans Jehovah's Witnesses. Throughout the entire period of National Socialism, the persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses continues, above all because of their pacifism and refusal to give the Hitler salute.
• 1948 The Berlin Blockade begins with the Soviet Union cutting off West Berlin's power supply and all road and rail traffic as well as inland shipping between Berlin and the Western zones.
• 1952 The first issue of the BILD newspaper appears with a total circulation of 250,000 copies.
• 1958 In the Battle of Gothenburg in the semi-final of the Football World Cup in Sweden, the host team defeats Germany 3:1 at the Nya Ullevi Stadium. The match, played with excessive brutality, places a lasting strain on the sporting relations between the two countries.
• 1966 The Beatles begin their tour of Germany.
• 1995 In Berlin, after more than twenty years of preparation, the art installation Wrapped Reichstag by the artist duo Christo and Jeanne-Claude is presented.
• 2004 After the German team's elimination in the group stage of the 2004 European Football Championship in Portugal, Rudi Völler as head coach and Michael Skibbe as assistant coach of the German national football team resign from their posts.
• 2023 During Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine, a military mutiny by the Wagner group occurs on Russian territory, during which military installations of the Russian Armed Forces in Rostov-on-Don are occupied.

Born on June 24

• 1882 Carl Diem, German sports official and sports scientist
• 1883 Victor Franz Hess, Austrian-American physicist and Nobel Prize winner
• 1904 Kurt Kusenberg, German art critic and writer
• 1911 Juan Manuel Fangio, Argentine racing driver
• 1930 Claude Chabrol, French film director
• 1942 Arthur Brown, British rock singer
• 1954 Eugen Ruge, German writer, director and translator
• 1973 Alexander Beyer, German actor
• 1981 Juliette Greco, German actress
• 1992 David Alaba, Austrian football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „24. Juni“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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