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
- 1595 –Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
- 1621 –The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
- 1798 –The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
- 1830 –Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
- 1830 –The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland and Ellicott’s Mills, Maryland.
- 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.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
- 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.
- 1943 –Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
- 1960 –Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
- 1962 –Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
- 1976 –The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
- 1982 –Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1992 –The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
- 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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