May 24

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May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). There are 221 days remaining.

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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

1153 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.
1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 - Magnus Ladulås crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1430 - Joan of Arc is captured by the forces of the Duke of Burgundy.
1487 - Imposter Lambert Simnel is crowned as "King Edward VI" at Dublin.
1595 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1621 - Protestant Union formally dissolved.
1626 - Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
1668 - Glen Cove, New York is founded.
1689 - The Act of Toleration passes the English Parliament protecting Protestants (Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded).
1738 - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day
1787 - The United States Constitutional Convention is convened after a quorum of delegates arrives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1798 - Irish nationalists rebel against British forces, believing that French troops were going to invade Ireland.
1822 - Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
1830 - Mary had a little lamb by Sarah Hale is published.
1844 - The first electric telegram is sent by Samuel F. B. Morse, from Baltimore, Maryland, to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".
1846 - Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
1856 - John Brown and his men murder five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas
1861 - American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge in New York is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1895 - Henry Irving becomes the first personage from the theatre to be knighted.
1899 - The first public parking garage in the United States is opened in Boston, Massachusetts.
1900 - Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
1911 - The New York Public Library opened.
1915 - World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
1921 - The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
1929 - The Cocoanuts, the first film to star the Marx Brothers, opens.
1930 - Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
1940 - Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1941 - World War II: In the North Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the HMS Hood killing all but three crewmen on what was the pride of the Royal Navy.
1943 - Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer in Auschwitz concentration camp.
1949 - The Soviet Union ends the 11-month Berlin Blockade.
1956 - In Lugano, Switzerland, Lys Assia wins the first Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland singing "Refrain".
1958 - United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1961 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1962 - American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1968 - Students set fire to the Paris bourse.
1968 - FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
1974 - After a nine-year run, the Dean Martin Show airs for the last time.
1976 - London to Washington, DC Concorde service begins.
1980 - The International Court of Justice calls for the release of United States embassy hostages in Tehran.
1981 - First International Women's Day for Disarmament
1988 - Section 28 is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
1989 - Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded a six-figure sum in damages after winning a libel action against Private Eye.
1990 - A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both.
1991 - Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1992 - The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
1993 - Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
1993 - Microsoft unveils Windows NT.
2000 - Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2001 - Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
2001 - Wedding hall collapse in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel's worst-ever civil disaster.

Births

15 BC - Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commander (d. AD 19)
AD 1494 - Pontormo, Italian painter (d. 1557)
1522 - John Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)
1544 - William Gilbert, English scientist (d. 1603)
1616 - John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, (d. 1682)
1671 - Gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)
1686 - Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist and engineer (d. 1736)
1689 - Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (d. 1769)
1738 - King George III of the United Kingdom (d. 1820)
1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
1794 - William Whewell, English philosopher (d. 1866)
1810 - Abraham Geiger, German rabbi and scholar (d. 1874)
1810 - Charles Clark, Governor of Mississippi (d. 1877)
1816 - Emanuel Leutze, German-born painter (d. 1868)
1819 - Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
1836 - Joseph Rowntree, British social reformer (d. 1925)
1854 - John Riley Banister, American law officer and cowboy (d. 1918)
1855 - Arthur Wing Pinero, English playwright (d. 1934)
1863 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
1870 - Jan Christian Smuts, Prime Minister of South Africa (d. 1950)
1870 - Benjamin Cardozo, American jurist (d. 1938)
1878 - Lillian Moller Gilbreth, American engineer (d. 1972)
1886 - Paul Paray, French conductor and composer (d. 1979)
1891 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar (d. 1971)
1899 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player
1899 - Henri Michaux, French poet
1905 - Michail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1909 - Wilbur Mills, American politician (d. 1992)
1914 - Lilli Palmer, German-born actress (d. 1986)
1925 - Mai Zetterling, Swedish-born entertainer (d. 1994)
1926 - Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor
1928 - William Trevor, Irish writer
1930 - Hans-Martin Linde, German conductor
1934 - Jane Byrne, Mayor of Chicago
1936 - Harold Budd, American musician
1938 - Tommy Chong, Canadian-born actor and comedian
1940 - Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
1941 - Bob Dylan, American singer and songwriter
1943 - Gary Burghoff, American actor
1944 - Arthur Brown, English musician
1944 - Patti LaBelle, American singer
1945 - Priscilla Presley, American actress
1946 - Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska, Russian-born Polish athlete
1949 - Jim Broadbent, English actor
1953 - Alfred Molina, English actor
1955 - Rosanne Cash, American singer
1960 - Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
1962 - Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (d. 2003)
1963 - Joe Dumars, American basketball player
1964 - Adrian Moorhouse, British swimmer
1965 - John C. Reilly, American actor
1966 - Eric Cantona, French footballer
1967 - Heavy D, American rapper and actor
1972 - Greg Berlanti, American television writer and producer
1973 - Dermot O'Leary, English television presenter
1973 - Bartolo Colón, Dominican Major League Baseball player
1973 - Ruslana, Ukraininan singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner
1979 - Tracy McGrady, American basketball player
1985 - Wayne Costello the Don, all around Balla
1988 - Billy Gilman, American singer

Deaths

1153 - King David I of Scotland (b. 1084)
1351 - Abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco
1425 - Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362)
1456 - Ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396)
1543 - Nicolas Copernicus, Polish astronomer (b. 1473)
1612 - Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English statesman and spymaster (b. 1563)
1627 - Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet (b. 1561)
1725 - Jonathan Wild, English criminal (b. 1683)
1734 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1749 - Graf Valentin Potocki, Polish nobleman (burned at the stake)
1879 - William Lloyd Garrison, American abolitionist, writer, and publisher (b. 1805)
1881 - Samuel Palmer, English artist (b. 1805)
1883 - Abdel Kadir, Algerian leader (b. 1808)
1933 - Percy C. Mather, missionary
1947 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (b. 1878)
1949 - Aleksey Shchusev, Russian architect (b. 1873)
1950 - Archibald Wavell, American general (b. 1883)
1959 - John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
1963 - Elmore James, American musician (b. 1918)
1969 - Willy Ley, German-born rocket scientist (b. 1906)
1974 - Duke Ellington, American composer and musician (b. 1899)
1981 - George Jessel, American actor (b. 1898)
1995 - Harold Wilson, British statesman and prime minister (b. 1916)
1996 - John Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1905)
1997 - Edward Mulhare, Irish actor (b. 1923)
1999 - Owen Hart, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1965)
2003 - Lady Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)
2004 - Henry Ries, American photographer (b. 1917)
2005 - Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist and resistance figher (b. 1913)

Holidays and observances

Canada: Victoria Day, on this date or the Monday before it. In Quebec, it is known as "National Patriots' Day" (Journée nationale des patriotes).
Bermuda: Bermuda Day
Eritrea: National Day
Bulgaria: Sts. Cyril and Methodius Day
Saint Sarah is celebrated in Carmague, France by the Roma or Gypsies.