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.
- 1689 –The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1970 –The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
- 1973 –Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords.
- 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.
- 1991 –Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
- 1994 –Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
- 2004 –Communications in North Korea: North Korea bans mobile phones.
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