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Today in History – June 24

217 BC – The Battle of Lake Trasimene, a Roman defeat in the Second Punic War between Carthaginians under Hannibal and the Romans under the consul Gaius Flaminius.

Battle of Lake Trasimeno 217 BC

2010 – A 30 ft. long concrete panel above the exit to a parking garage at Milwaukee’s O’Donnell Park fell as a group of people were walking below, killing a 15 year-old boy and injuring two others.

Wall collapse kills boy