On This Day for June 24 - Russia invaded by Napoleon and his Grand Army, Jack Dempsey is featured, and more

Created: 2020-06-24 10:03 Updated: 2020-06-24 10:03 Notebook: On this Day in History

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June 24

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Jack Dempsey

Jacques-Louis David: Napoleon in His Study

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1812

Russia invaded by Napoleon and his Grand Army

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2010: Australian politician Julia Gillard was sworn in as Australia's first female prime minister. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Australia.]

1987: Football (soccer) player Lionel Messi, one of the game's premier players, was born in Argentina. [ Take our quiz about all things football.]

1948: The Berlin blockade intensified when the Soviet Union announced that the Western Allied powers no longer had any rights in Berlin .

1932: The Promoters Revolution, a bloodless coup, overthrew Prajadhipok, the king of Thailand, ending the absolute monarchy in that country and initiating the so-called Constitutional Era. [ Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about Thailand.]

1859: The Battle of Solferino, the last engagement of the second War of Italian Independence, was fought in Lombardy. [Match the battle with the war in our quiz.]

Simón Bolívar, detail of an engraving by C.G. Childs.

1821: South American patriots under Simón Bolívar defeated Spanish royalists on the plains near Caracas, Venezuela, in the Battle of Carabobo. [Test your knowledge of Latin American history.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1987

Lionel Messi
Argentine-born football player

1979

Mindy Kaling
American actress, comedian, and author

1895

Jack Dempsey
American boxer

1842

Ambrose Bierce
American author

1532

Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester
English noble