June 24 - Holidays and Observances

Holidays and Observances

• Bannockburn Day (Scotland)
• Battle of Carabobo Day (Venezuela)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Nativity of St. John the Baptist
  • June 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of the Caboclo (Amazonas State, Brazil)
• Discovery Day, observed on the nearest Monday (Newfoundland and Labrador)
• Earliest day on which Mother's Day can fall, while June 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in June. (Kenya)
• Feast of Raḥmat (Bahá'í Faith)
• Inti Raymi, a winter solstice festival and a New Year in the Andes of the Southern Hemisphere (Sacsayhuamán)
• St John's Day and the second day of the Midsummer celebrations (although this is not the astronomical summer solstice, see June 20) (Roman Catholic Church, Northern Europe), and its related observances:
  • Jaanipäev (Estonia)
  • Jāņi (Latvia)
  • Midsummer Day (England)
  • National Holiday (Quebec)
  • Saint Jonas' Festival or Joninės (Lithuania)
  • Sânziene (western Carpathian Mountains of Romania)
  • Fors Fortuna (Roman Empire)