May 24 Events |
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| May 24th, 2008 (May 24 2008) | Event | Emperor s Cup of SumoFirst European to win itKaloyan Mahlyanov | |
| May 24th, 2008 (May 24 2008) | Event | New Bengaluru International Airport opens in Bangalore, India. It replaced the old HAL Bangalore International Airport. | |
| May 24th, 2004 (May 24 2004) | Event | Communications in North Korea: North Korea bans mobile phones. | |
| May 24th, 2002 (May 24 2002) | Event | Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty. | |
| May 24th, 2001 (May 24 2001) | Event | Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest. | |
| May 24th, 2001 (May 24 2001) | Event | The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel s worst-ever civil disaster. | |
| May 24th, 2001 (May 24 2001) | Event | The Democrats gain control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an independent. | |
| May 24th, 2000 (May 24 2000) | Event | Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. | |
| May 24th, 1999 (May 24 1999) | Event | Venezuela enters the Antarctic Treaty System. | |
| May 24th, 1994 (May 24 1994) | Event | Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison. | |
| May 24th, 1993 (May 24 1993) | Event | Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia. | |
| May 24th, 1992 (May 24 1992) | Event | The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests. | Gene Ray Quotes |
| May 24th, 1991 (May 24 1991) | Event | Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel. | Solomon Quotes |
| May 24th, 1990 (May 24 1990) | Event | A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both. | |
| May 24th, 1989 (May 24 1989) | Event | Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded a six-figure sum in damages after winning a libel action against Private Eye. | |
| May 24th, 1988 (May 24 1988) | Event | Section 28 is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom. | |
| May 24th, 1982 (May 24 1982) | Event | Liberation of Khorramshahr, Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq War. | |
| May 24th, 1980 (May 24 1980) | Event | 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. | |
| May 24th, 1976 (May 24 1976) | Event | The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins. | |
| May 24th, 1973 (May 24 1973) | Event | Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords. | |
| May 24th, 1970 (May 24 1970) | Event | The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union. | |
| May 24th, 1968 (May 24 1968) | Event | FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City. | |
| May 24th, 1962 (May 24 1962) | Event | Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. | |
| May 24th, 1961 (May 24 1961) | Event | American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus. | |
| May 24th, 1961 (May 24 1961) | Event | Cyprus enters the Council of Europe. | |
| May 24th, 1958 (May 24 1958) | Event | United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service. | |
| May 24th, 1956 (May 24 1956) | Event | Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha s Parinibbana. | |
| May 24th, 1949 (May 24 1949) | Event | The Soviet Union ends the 11-month Berlin Blockade. | |
| May 24th, 1943 (May 24 1943) | Event | Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp. | Josef Mengele Quotes |
| May 24th, 1941 (May 24 1941) | Event | 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. | |
| May 24th, 1940 (May 24 1940) | Event | Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight. | |
| May 24th, 1930 (May 24 1930) | Event | Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight). | |
| May 24th, 1921 (May 24 1921) | Event | The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens. | |
| May 24th, 1915 (May 24 1915) | Event | World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary. | |
| May 24th, 1901 (May 24 1901) | Event | Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales. | |
| May 24th, 1900 (May 24 1900) | Event | Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State. | |
| May 24th, 1895 (May 24 1895) | Event | Henry Irving becomes the first personage from the theatre to be knighted. | |
| May 24th, 1883 (May 24 1883) | Event | The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction. | |
| May 24th, 1881 (May 24 1881) | Event | Turkey cedes Thessaly and Arta back to Greece. | |
| May 24th, 1861 (May 24 1861) | Event | American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia. | |
| May 24th, 1856 (May 24 1856) | Event | John Brown and his men murder five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. | |
| May 24th, 1846 (May 24 1846) | Event | Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey. | Zachary Taylor Quotes |
| May 24th, 1844 (May 24 1844) | Event | Samuel F. B. Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a Bible quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland. | |
| May 24th, 1832 (May 24 1832) | Event | The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference. | |
| May 24th, 1830 (May 24 1830) | Event | "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is published. | |
| May 24th, 1830 (May 24 1830) | Event | The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail Road between Baltimore, Maryland and Ellicott s Mills, Maryland. | |
| May 24th, 1822 (May 24 1822) | Event | Battle of Pichincha: Antonio Jose de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito. | |
| May 24th, 1798 (May 24 1798) | Event | Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins. | |
| May 24th, 1738 (May 24 1738) | Event | John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day. | John Wesley Quotes |
| May 24th, 1689 (May 24 1689) | Event | The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded. | |
| May 24th, 1626 (May 24 1626) | Event | Peter Minuit buys Manhattan. | |
| May 24th, 1621 (May 24 1621) | Event | The Protestant Union is formally dissolved. | |
| May 24th, 1595 (May 24 1595) | Event | Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library. | |
| May 24th, 1487 (May 24 1487) | Event | Lambert Simnel is crowned as "King Edward VI" at Dublin, Ireland. | |
| May 24th, 1276 (May 24 1276) | Event | Magnus Ladulas is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral. | |
| May 24th, 1218 (May 24 1218) | Event | The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. | |
