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What Happened on May 24th This Day in History

Year	Name
2022	A mass shooting occurs at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, United States, resulting in the deaths of 21 people, including 19 children.
2019	Twenty-two students die in a fire in Surat (India).
2019	Under pressure over her handling of Brexit, British Prime Minister Theresa May announces her resignation as Leader of the Conservative Party, effective as of June 7.
2014	A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
2014	At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium.
2002	Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
2000	Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
1999	The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
1995	While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Harewood, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on board.
1994	Four men are convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993; each one is sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1993	Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
1993	Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo and five other people are assassinated in a shootout at Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla Guadalajara International Airport in Mexico.
1992	The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests.
1992	The ethnic cleansing in Kozarac, Bosnia and Herzegovina begins when Serbian militia and police forces enter the town.
1991	Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1988	Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted.
1982	Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
1981	Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
1976	The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine.
1967	Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
1967	Belle de Jour, directed by Luis Buñuel, is released.
1962	Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
1961	American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus.
1960	Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt.
1958	United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.
1956	The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.
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.
1944	Börse Berlin building burns down after being hit in an air raid during World War II.[3]
1941	World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
1940	Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
1940	Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico.
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.
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).
1915	World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
1900	Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
1883	The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
1873	Patrick Francis Healy becomes the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
1861	American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
1856	John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
1844	Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
1832	The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
1822	Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
1813	South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
1798	The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
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.
1689	The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting dissenting Protestants but excluding Roman Catholics.
1683	The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
1667	The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance.
1626	Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
1621	The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1607	One hundred-five English settlers under the leadership of Captain Christopher Newport established the colony called Jamestown at the mouth of the James River on the Virginia coast, the first permanent English colony in America.
1595	Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1567	Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.
1487	The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.
1276	Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1218	The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
919	The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.

Famous People Born on May 24

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Year	Name
1905	Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1984)
1936	Harold Budd, American composer and poet (d. 2020)
1887	Mick Mannock, Irish soldier and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 1918)
1909	Wilbur Mills, American banker and politician (d. 1992)
1966	Éric Cantona, French footballer, manager, and actor
1980	Jason Babin, American football player
1816	Emanuel Leutze, German-American painter (d. 1868)
1923	Siobhán McKenna, Irish actress (d. 1986)
1914	Lilli Palmer, German-American actress (d. 1986)
1974	Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player and coach

Famous People Deaths On May 24

Here is a list of some famous peope who died on May 24. For full list please click on the link above.

Date	Name
1941	Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)
1543	Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (b. 1473)
1991	Gene Clark, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944)
2003	Rachel Kempson, English actress (b. 1910)
2013	Helmut Braunlich, German-American violinist and composer (b. 1929)
1956	Martha Annie Whiteley, English chemist and mathematician (b. 1866)
1929	Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
1974	Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (b. 1899)
2015	Dean Carroll, English rugby player (b. 1962)
1843	Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician and academic (b. 1765)