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
- 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.
- 1830 –Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
- 1832 –The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
- 1846 –Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
- 1856 –John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
- 1921 –The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1967 –Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
- 1973 –Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords.
- 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.
- 1991 –Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
- 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.
- 2001 –The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200
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