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.
- 1822 –Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
- 1846 –Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
- 1883 –The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
- 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.
- 1940 –Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
- 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.
- 1943 –Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1948 –Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
- 1958 –United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
- 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.
- 1982 –Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
- 1988 –The fourth game of the 1988 Stanley Cup Finals between the Edmonton Oilers and the Boston Bruins had to end in a tie because of a power failure. The Oilers went on to win the Stanley Cup with a 6-3 victory in game 5.
- 1994 –Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
- 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.
- 2004 –Communications in North Korea: North Korea bans mobile phones.
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