| 72091 | June 24 | Event | 1981 – The Humber Bridge is opens to traffic, connecting Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. It would be the world's longest single-span suspension bridge for 17 years. |
| 72092 | June 24 | Event | 1982 – "The Jakarta Incident": British Airways Flight 9 flies into a cloud of volcanic ash thrown up by the eruption of Mount Galunggung, resulting in the failure of all four engines. |
| 72093 | June 24 | Event | 1989 – Jiang Zemin succeeds Zhao Ziyang to become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. |
| 72094 | June 24 | Event | 1995 – "Rugby World Cup final": South Africa defeats New Zealand, Nelson Mandela presents Francois Pienaar with the Webb-Ellis trophy in an iconic post-apartheid moment. |
| 72095 | June 24 | Event | 2002 – The Igandu train disaster in Tanzania kills 281, the worst train accident in African history. |
| 72096 | June 24 | Event | 2004 – In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional. |
| 72097 | June 24 | Event | 2010 – John Isner of the United States defeats Nicolas Mahut of France at Wimbledon, in the longest match in professional tennis history. |
| 72098 | June 24 | Event | 2010 – Julia Gillard assumed office as the first female Prime Minister of Australia. |
| 72099 | June 24 | Event | 2012 – Lonesome George, the last known individual of Chelonoidis nigra abingdonii, a subspecies of the Galápagos tortoise, dies. |
| 72100 | June 24 | Event | 2013 – Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is found guilty of abusing his power and having sex with an underage prostitute, and is sentenced to seven years in prison. |
| 72101 | June 24 | Birth | 1244 – Henry I, Landgrave of Hesse (d. 1308) |
| 72102 | June 24 | Birth | 1257 – Robert de Vere, 6th Earl of Oxford, England noblemen (d. 1331) |
| 72103 | June 24 | Birth | 1314 – Philippa of Hainault (d. 1369) |
| 72104 | June 24 | Birth | 1343 – Joan of Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373) |
| 72105 | June 24 | Birth | 1386 – John of Capistrano, Italian priest and saint (d. 1456) |
| 72106 | June 24 | Birth | 1485 – Johannes Bugenhagen, Polish-German priest and reformer (d. 1558) |
| 72107 | June 24 | Birth | 1519 – Theodore Beza, French theologian and scholar (d. 1605) |
| 72108 | June 24 | Birth | 1532 – Robert Dudley, 1st Earl of Leicester, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Warwickshire (d. 1588) |
| 72109 | June 24 | Birth | 1532 – William IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1573) |
| 72110 | June 24 | Birth | 1535 – Joanna of Austria, Princess of Portugal (d. 1573) |
| 72111 | June 24 | Birth | 1542 – John of the Cross, Spanish mystic and saint (d. 1591) |
| 72112 | June 24 | Birth | 1546 – Robert Persons, English-Italian priest and author (d. 1610) |
| 72113 | June 24 | Birth | 1587 – William Arnold, English-American settler (d. 1675) |
| 72114 | June 24 | Birth | 1661 – Hachisuka Tsunanori, Japanese daimyo (d. 1730) |
| 72115 | June 24 | Birth | 1663 – Jean Baptiste Massillon, French bishop (d. 1742) |
| 72116 | June 24 | Birth | 1687 – Johann Albrecht Bengel, German-Lutheran clergyman and scholar (d. 1757) |
| 72117 | June 24 | Birth | 1694 – Jean-Jacques Burlamaqui, Swiss author and theorist (d. 1748) |
| 72118 | June 24 | Birth | 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d'Argens, French philosopher and author (d. 1771) |
| 72119 | June 24 | Birth | 1753 – William Hull, American general and politician, 1st Governor of Michigan Territory (d. 1825) |
| 72120 | June 24 | Birth | 1755 – Anacharsis Cloots, Prussian-French activist (d. 1794) |