Historical Events on June 24 (Part 2)

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• 2010 NBA Draft: Kentucky point guard John Wall first pick by Washington Wizards

• 2011 NHL Draft: Red Deer Rebels (WHL) center Ryan Nugent-Hopkins first pick by Edmonton Oilers
• 2012 Female athletes will be allowed to compete for Saudi Arabia at the Olympics for the first time
• 2013 Stanley Cup Final, TD Garden, Boston, MA: Chicago Blackhawks defeat Boston Bruins, 3-2 for 4-2 series victory; Blackhawks' 5th Championship
• 2014 Rebels in Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire
• 2014 Sidney Crosby wins the Hart Memorial Trophy and the Ted Lindsay Award for the 2014 NHL season
• 2015 Montreal Canadiens goaltender Carey Price wins the 2014-15 Hart Trophy as the NHL's MVP

• 2016 NHL Draft: ZSC Lions (NLA) center Auston Matthews first pick by Toronto Maple Leafs
• 2017 UN states Yemen cholera epidemic reached 200,000 cases, with 1,300 deaths. Worst cholera outbreak anywhere in the world.
• 2017 World record for highest altitude football match ever played at 18,799ft on Mount Kilimanjaro by women's international team

• 2018 Women drive for the first time in Saudi Arabia after ban is lifted
• 2019 El Salvador immigrant father and his 23-month-old daughter drown trying to cross the Rio Grande into the US with their photo causing widespread condemnation
• 2019 Greek Cypriot army officer Nicos Metaxas given seven life sentences for the murder of five women and two children in Nicosia
• 2019 Mysterious sickness affects 718 children with 152 deaths around Indian city of Muzaffarpur, previously thought due to lychee fruit but now unknown

• 2020 COVID-19 pandemic worsens dramatically in Yemen, the Arab world's poorest country, with 25% mortality according to the UN

• 2020 Russia celebrates its victory 75 years ago over Nazi Germany with huge military parade through Red Square in Moscow (delayed from May 9 due to pandemic)
• 2020 World Monetary fund predicts a deeper global recession with contraction of 4.9% (down from 3%), noting 2/3 of all countries used 11 trillion to support their economies
• 2021 Residential tower Champlain Towers South collapses at 1.30am in Surfside, Miami Beach, with 156 people missing (98 bodies eventually recovered)
• 2021 Second discovery of the remains of 761 people, mainly indigenous children announced at former Marieval Indian Residential School in Saskatchewan

• 2022 US Supreme Court overturns Roe v. Wade, eliminating constitutional right to choose abortion, in a 6-3 vote [1] [2]
• 2023 MLB Los Angeles Angels Mike Trout, Brandon Drury, and Matt Thaiss hit home runs on 3 consecutive pitches in 25-1 win over Rockies at Coor's Field in Denver, Colorado
• 2023 Opener Tammy Beaumont smashes 208 in the Ashes Test against Australia at Trent Bridge for the highest ever score by an Englishwoman in Test Cricket; Australia goes on to win by 89 runs

• 2024 Flooding across the US's Midwest affects 3 million people in Minnesota, Iowa, South Dakota and Nebraska, including completely cutting off Spencer, Iowa [1]
• 2024 Philadelphia Phillies turn rare 1-3-5 triple play, MLB's first since 1929, during 8-1 win over Tigers at Comerica Park in Detroit, Michigan
• 2024 Stanley Cup Final, Amerant Bank Arena, Sunrise, FL: Florida Panthers win their first title in franchise history defeating the Edmonton Oilers 2-1 in Game 7; MVP: Connor McDavid (Oilers C)
• 2024 Sudan has the largest number of displaced children in the world after a year of civil war, with nearly four million facing acute malnutrition, according to the UN [1]
• 2024 Wikileaks founder Julian Assange reaches deal with the US; pleading guilty to criminal charges but going free, after five years in a UK prison [1]

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