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.
- 1626 –Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
- 1689 –The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
- 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.
- 1846 –Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
- 1861 –American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
- 1883 –The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
- 1915 –World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1921 –The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
- 1940 –Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
- 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.
- 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
- 1958 –United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
- 1961 –American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for “disturbing the peace” after disembarking from their bus.
- 1968 –FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
- 1976 –The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
- 1991 –Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
- 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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