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May 24
May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). There are 221 days remaining.
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Events
1100-1899
1900-1999
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1900 - Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
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1915 - World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
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1921 - Trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
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1929 - The Cocoanuts, the first film to star the Marx Brothers, opens.
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1930 - Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Australia becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).
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1940 - Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
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1941 - World War II: In the North Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the HMS Hood killing all but three crewmen on what was the pride of the Royal Navy.
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1943 - Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer in Auschwitz concentration camp.
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1956 - In Lugano, Switzerland, Lys Assia wins the first Eurovision Song Contest for Switzerland singing "Refrain".
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1958 - United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
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1961 - American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
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1962 - American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
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1968 - Students set fire to the Paris bourse.
- 1968 - The Gateway Arch, in St. Louis, Missouri, is dedicated.
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1974 - After a nine year run, the Dean Martin Show airs for the last time.
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1976 - The London to Washington, DC Concorde service begins.
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1980 - The International Court of Justice calls for the release of United States embassy hostages in Tehran.
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1988 - Section 28 is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
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1989 - Sonia Sutcliffe , wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded a six-figure sum in damages after winning a libel action against Private Eye.
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1991 - Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethopian Jews to Israel.
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1993 - Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
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1993 - Microsoft unveils Windows NT.
2000-2099
Births
1500-1899
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1544 - William Gilbert (d. 1603)
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1616 - John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale, (d. 1682)
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1619 - (baptised) Philips Wouwerman , Dutch Baroque painter (d. 1668)
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1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary (d. 1793)
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1794 - William Whewell, philosopher (d. 1866)
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1810 - Abraham Geiger, rabbi and scholar (d. 1874)
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1811 - Charles Clark, Governor of Mississippi
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1816 - Emanuel Leutze, painter of Washington Crossing the Delaware (d. 1868)
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1819 - Queen Victoria (d. 1901)
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1831 - Richard Hoffman , pianist
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1836 - Joseph Rowntree, British social reformer (d. 1925)
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1855 - Arthur Wing Pinero, playwright (d. 1934)
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1858 - Johan C Braakensiek , political cartoonist
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1863 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (d. 1938)
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1866 - Armando Frid (d. 1990)
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1870 - Jan Christian Smuts (d. 1950)
- 1870 - Benjamin Cardozo, US jurist (d. 1938)
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1878 - Lillian Moller Gilbreth, mother of modern management (d. 1972)
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1886 - Paul Paray, conductor, composer (d. 1979)
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1891 - William F. Albright, American archeologist and Biblical scholar (d. 1971)
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1899 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player
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1899 - Henri Michaux, French poet
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1991 - Jack Ostrand, Duke of Wellington
1900-1999
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1905 - Zdenek Blazek , composer (d. 1988)
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1909 - Wilbur Mills, United States politician (d. 1992)
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1910 - Nils-Eric Fougstedt (d. 1961)
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1912 - Joan Hammond , soprano
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1913 - Willi Daume , German Olympic organizer (d. 1996)
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1914 - Lilli Palmer , actress (d. 1986)
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1917 - John Robert Russell , Duke of Bedford (d. 2002)
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1922 or 1923 - Siobhan McKenna , actress (d. 1986)
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1925 - Mai Zetterling, entertainer (d. 1994)
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1926 - Stanley Baxter, actor
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1928 - William Trevor, writer
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1930 - Hans-Martin Linde, conductor
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1934 - Jane Byrne, former mayor of Chicago, Illinois
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1935 - Joan Micklin Silver , director, writer
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1936 - Harold Budd, musician
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1938 - Tommy Chong, actor, comedian
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1940 - Joseph Brodsky, poet
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1941 - Bob Dylan (aka Robert Allen Zimmerman)
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1942 - Derek Quinn , musician
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1943 - Gary Burghoff, actor
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1944 - Arthur Brown, musician
- 1944 - Patti LaBelle, singer
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1945 - Priscilla Presley, actress
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1946 - Irena Kirszenstein-Szewinska , Russian-born Polish athlete
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1949 - Jim Broadbent, actor
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1953 - Alfred Molina, actor
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1955 - Rosanne Cash, singer
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1960 - Kristin Scott Thomas, actress
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1962 - Bev Lidyoff , volleyball player
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1963 - Joe Dumars, basketball star
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1965 - John C. Reilly, actor
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1966 - Eric Cantona, French footballer
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1967 - Heavy D , rap musician, actor
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1972 - Greg Berlanti, American television writer and producer
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1973 - Dermot O'Leary , TV presenter
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1979 - Tracy McGrady, basketball player
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1988 - Billy Gilman , singer
Deaths
500-1899
1900-1999
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1903 - Marcel Renault , automobile racer
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1933 - Percy C. Mather, pioneer missionary to Eastern Turkestan
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1937 - Edward Dunne , mayor of Chicago, IL (b. 1853)
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1950 - Archibald Wavell, general (b. 1883)
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1959 - John Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State (b. 1888)
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1963 - Elmore James, blues musician (b. 1918)
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1969 - Willy Ley, rocket scientist (b. 1906)
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1974 - Duke Ellington, composer, musician (b. 1899)
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1981 - George Jessel, vaudevillian (b. 1898)
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1991 - Wilhelm Kempff, German conductor (b. 1895)
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1995 - Harold Wilson, British statesman and prime minister (b. 1916)
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1997 - Edward Mulhare, actor (b. 1923)
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Holidays and observances
Victoria Day is celebrated in Canada on this date or the Monday before it (in Quebec, it is known as Patriotes Day (Journée nationale des patriotes)). It is regarded as a public holiday.
Saint_Sarah is celebrated in Carmague , France by the Roma (gypsies).
Bermuda Day , National Day of Bermuda.
Eritrea, National Day
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Last updated: 02-10-2005 02:30:17
Last updated: 04-25-2005 03:06:01
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