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
- 1276 –Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
- 1689 –The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
- 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.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
- 1895 –Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
- 1900 –Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
- 1915 –World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 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).
- 1940 –Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
- 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.
- 1956 –Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha’s Parinibbāna.
- 1956 –The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland
- 1960 –Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
- 1961 –Cyprus joins the Council of Europe.
- 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.
- 2000 –Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
- 2001 –The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200
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