Historical Events for 24th June 2024

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1396 - Crusaders under Earl of Nevers reach Vienna
1664 - Colony of New Jersey founded when Duke of York grants Lord Berkeley and Sir George Carteret ownership of land between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers
1692 - Kingston, Jamaica, founded after Port Royal at mouth of the harbour destroyed by an earthquake
1750 - Jesuit priest hold first mass in The Little Chapel in Tadoussac, New France (built 1747, now the oldest surviving church in North America)
1843 - Vincenzo Soliva decrees no Jew can live outside a ghetto in Italy
1900 - Dutch Social-Democratic Workers' party and Socialistenbond merge
1953 - KSWS (now KOBR) TV channel 8 in Roswell, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1974 - India is dismissed for 42 in 17 overs in 2nd Test defeat to England at Lord's; lowest total in country's Test cricket history; Chris Old 5-21, Geoff Arnold 4-19
1986 - Guy Hunt elected 1st Republican governor of Alabama in 112 years
1989 - Jiang Zemin appointed the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

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