About May 24
May 24, 2024 is the 145th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 221 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Gemini is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Emerald is the modern birthstone for this month. Sapphire is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 250 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 24
- 1218 –The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
- 1595 –Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
- 1626 –Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
- 1798 –The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
- 1846 –Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
- 1856 –John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
- 1895 –Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
- 1915 –World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1941 –World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the then pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
- 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.
- 1967 –Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
- 1976 –The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
- 1980 –The International Court of Justice calls for the release of United States embassy hostages in Tehran, Iran. The hostages would not be freed until the following January.
- 1981 –Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife and his presidential committee died in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
- 1988 –Section 28 of the United Kingdom’s Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
- 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.
- 2001 –Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
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