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.
- 1276 –Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
- 1626 –Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
- 1798 –The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
- 1822 –Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
- 1832 –The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
- 1844 –Samuel Morse sends the message “What hath God wrought” (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
- 1846 –Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
- 1856 –John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
- 1930 –Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
- 1935 –The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field.
- 1943 –Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1956 –The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland
- 1968 –FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
- 1970 –The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
- 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.
- 1982 –Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
- 1994 –Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
- 2002 –Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
- 2004 –Communications in North Korea: North Korea bans mobile phones.
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