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)
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