📜 This Day in History
June 24
474Western Roman emperor Glycerius, who was not recognized by his Eastern counterpart Leo I, was forced to abdicate.- 1374An outbreak of dancing mania, in which crowds of people danced themselves to exhaustion, began in Aachen (in present-day Germany) before spreading to other parts of Europe.
- 1812Napoleonic Wars: Led by Napoleon, the French Grande Armée crossed the Neman, beginning their invasion of Russia.
- 1937The U.S. Navy's first two fast battleships, North Carolina and Washington, of the North Carolina class, were respectively ordered from the New York and Philadelphia Naval Shipyards.
- 1989Following the Tiananmen Square massacre, the 13th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party appointed Jiang Zemin as general secretary in place of Zhao Ziyang.
- 2021A portion of a 12-story condominium building collapsed in Surfside, Florida, United States, killing 98 people and injuring 11 others.
