About May 24
May 24, 2025 is the 144th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 221 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 269 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On May 24
- 1621 –The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
- 1689 –The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration 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 and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday.
- 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.
- 1895 –Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
- 1901 –Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
- 1921 –The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
- 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.
- 1956 –The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland
- 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.
- 1982 –Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
- 1989 –Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutcliffe, is awarded £600,000 in damages (later reduced to £60,000 on appeal) after winning a libel action against Private Eye.
- 1991 –Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
- 1992 –The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
- 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.
- 2004 –Communications in North Korea: North Korea bans mobile phones.
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