Notable Historical Events on May 24th
May 24th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1086 |
Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III |
1153 |
Malcolm IV becomes King of Scots |
1218 |
The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. |
1276 |
Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral. |
1300 |
King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured |
1370 |
Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV |
1487 |
Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin |
1595 |
Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library. |
1621 |
The Protestant Union is formally dissolved. |
1653 |
German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria |
1658 |
Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought |
1660 |
English king Charles II visits Netherlands |
1667 |
French troops attack into Southern Netherlands |
1689 |
English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants |
1697 |
English King William III travels through northern Europe |
1726 |
-26] People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax |
1738 |
John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day. |
1775 |
John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress |
1798 |
Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins. |
1809 |
Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war |
1815 |
George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia |
1818 |
General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida |
1822 |
Battle of Pichincha, Bolívar secures independence of Quito from Spain |
1824 |
Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee |
1829 |
Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate |
1830 |
"Mary Had A Little Lamb" is published |
1830 |
1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland) |
1832 |
The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference. |
1844 |
Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph message) |
1846 |
General Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in Mexican War |
1847 |
German explorer Ludwig Leichhardt is awarded the Patron's Medal by the Royal Geographical Society, London in recognition of 'the increased knowledge of the great continent of Australia' gained by his Moreton Bay-Port Essington journey |
1854 |
Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston |
1854 |
Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in US founded by John Miller Dickey and Sarah Emlen Cresson |
1856 |
Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas |
1861 |
Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops |
1861 |
Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war" |
1862 |
Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time |
1862 |
Westminster Bridge across Thames opens |
1866 |
Berkeley, California named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne) |
1870 |
Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US |
1873 |
Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit" premieres in Paris |
1877 |
5th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:45.5 |
1878 |
CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston |
1879 |
7th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Harold wins in 2:40.5 |
1881 |
Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die |
1881 |
Turkey cedes Thessaly and Arta back to Greece. |
1883 |
Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland |
1884 |
Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People's Party in US |
1887 |
Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants E Afr Association at East African harbors |
1890 |
Caprivi succeeds Bismarck as chancellor of Germany |
1890 |
Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma |
1890 |
Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London |
1895 |
Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight |
1899 |
1st auto repair shop opens (Boston) |
1900 |
34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21¼ |
1901 |
Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales. |
1902 |
Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain |
1902 |
Cleve's Bill Bradley is 1st ALer to hit a HR run in 4 consecutive games, not duplicated until Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918 |
1905 |
39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08 |
1908 |
Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election |
1908 |
John Masefields "Tragedy of Nan" premieres in London |
1909 |
Bristol University granted Royal Charter |
1915 |
Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations |
1916 |
Conscription begins in Britain |
1916 |
French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured |
1916 |
Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname |
1916 |
US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker |
1918 |
Cleveland Indians Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19) |
1918 |
Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19th inning |
1921 |
1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected |
1921 |
British Legion forms |
1921 |
Bulhoek Massacre of Israelites takes place near Queenstown when Colonel Theodore Truter, a police commissioner, leads 6 squadrons, a machine gun and an artillery detachment against the Israelite religious sect collected at their annual gathering on the land of their leader and prophet, Enoch Mgijima at Ntabalanga; the slaughter takes 10 minutes and costs 190 lives |
1922 |
Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6°C) |
1922 |
Russian-Italian trade agreement signed |
1926 |
Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4) |
1928 |
Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yanks beat A's 9-7 |
1928 |
Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again |
1929 |
Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings |
1930 |
1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson) |
1930 |
Bradman scores 252* Australia v Surrey, 290 mins, 29 fours |
1930 |
Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week |
1931 |
1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad |
1933 |
Dmitri Shostakovitch's Preludes premieres in Moscow |
1934 |
Colombia & Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia |
1935 |
1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1) |
1936 |
Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party |
1936 |
Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yanks beat A's 25-2 |
1940 |
1st night game at NY's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1) |
1940 |
1st night game at St Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2) |
1940 |
Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio |
1940 |
Dutch army demobilizes |
1940 |
German tanks reach Atrecht France |
1940 |
Hitler affirms Gen von Rundstedts "Stopbevel" |
1940 |
NY Giants rip Boston Bees 8-1 in 1st night game at Polo Grounds |
1941 |
Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3 survive |
1943 |
Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean |
1943 |
U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje |
1944 |
Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists |
1944 |
Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark |
1946 |
Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager |
1948 |
Benjamin Britten's "Beggar's Opera" premieres in Cambridge |
1951 |
Racial segregation in Wash DC restaurants ruled illegal |
1951 |
US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests) |
1953 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus |
1954 |
1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM |
1954 |
Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit |
1954 |
German airline Lufthansa forms |
1954 |
IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour |
1956 |
Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna. |
1957 |
Anti-American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan |
1957 |
Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia |
1958 |
"New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 432 perfs |
1958 |
Cuban President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion |
1958 |
UP & International News Service merge into United Press International |
1959 |
1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills, Pa) |
1959 |
Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in Great Britain |
1960 |
1 millionth Dutch telephone installed |
1961 |
27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi |
1961 |
Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit |
1961 |
Cyprus joins the Council of Europe. |
1962 |
M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit |
1963 |
1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely |
1964 |
18th Tony Awards: Luther & Hello Dolly win |
1964 |
Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan Show |
1964 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Dallas Civitan Golf Open Invitational |
1964 |
Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn) |
1964 |
Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300 |
1965 |
Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional |
1966 |
"Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances |
1967 |
AFL grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals |
1968 |
Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days |
1968 |
Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession |
1968 |
French President Charles de Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse |
1968 |
FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City. |
1969 |
Beatles' "Get Back" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks |
1970 |
Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational |
1970 |
Peter Green quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult |
1970 |
The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union. |
1971 |
A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard |
1972 |
Glasgow Rangers wins 12th Europe Cup II at Barcelona |
1972 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1973 |
Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords. |
1974 |
Dean Martin Show last airs on NBC-TV |
1975 |
Dutch government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16 |
1976 |
1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC) |
1976 |
Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title in Munich |
1976 |
In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines. |
1977 |
USSR President Podgorny resigns |
1978 |
Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect |
1979 |
Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1980 |
"Rock Lobster" by B-52s hits #56 |
1980 |
Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages |
1980 |
Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 2 |
1981 |
Bobby Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indy 500 |
1981 |
Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain |
1981 |
Kathy Hite wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
1982 |
Liberation of Khorramshahr, Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq War. |
1983 |
Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria |
1983 |
Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students |
1984 |
"Wiz" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 13 performances |
1984 |
Det Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game |
1985 |
"View to a Kill" premieres in US |
1985 |
-25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die |
1986 |
Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel |
1986 |
Reginald Huffstetler trod water for 985 hrs |
1986 |
Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4 games to 1 |
1987 |
33rd LPGA Championship won by Jane Geddes |
1987 |
Indianapolis 500: Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indy 500 |
1988 |
John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute |
1988 |
Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe |
1988 |
Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals |
1988 |
Section 28 is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom (prohibiting promotion of homosexuality). Repealed 2001/2004 |
1989 |
"Indiana Jones & Last Crusade" premieres |
1989 |
AC Milan wins 34th Europe Cup 1 at Barcelona |
1989 |
French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice |
1989 |
NHL's NY Rangers fire GM & coach Phil Esposito |
1989 |
Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack |
1989 |
NY Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his 1st run of season |
1989 |
Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded £600,000 in damages after winning a libel action against satyrical magazine Private Eye (later reduced to £60,000 on appeal) . |
1990 |
Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 |
1990 |
A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both. |
1992 |
Indianapolis 500: Al Unser Jr.wins |
1992 |
Colleen Walker wins LPGA Corning Golf Classic |
1992 |
Pat Bradley wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament |
1992 |
Despite trailing 7-1, NY Yanks tie Milwaukee Brewers & then score 1 in 9th to avoid 5th straight extra inning game |
1993 |
Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war |
1993 |
Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement |
1993 |
Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers & 5 citizens in Turkey |
1994 |
Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash |
1996 |
"Spy Hard" starring Leslie Nielsen is released |
1997 |
Actor Tim Allen arrested for drunk driving in Mich |
1997 |
STS 84 (Atlantis 19), lands |
1997 |
Telstar-5 Proton Launch, Successful |
1998 |
Indianapolis 500: Eddie Cheever Jr wins in 3:26:40.524 (233.604 km/h) |
1999 |
Venezuela enters the Antarctic Treaty System. |
2000 |
Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. |
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 in Israel's worst-ever civil disaster. |
2001 |
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. |
2002 |
Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty. |
2004 |
North Korea bans mobile phones. |
2009 |
Indianapolis 500: Hélio Castroneves wins in 3:19:34.6427 (241.913 km/h) |
2013 |
Rafael Correa is sworn into a third term as President of Ecuador |
2014 |
Real Madrid defeat Atlético Madrid to win the 2014 UEFA Champions League |
2016 |
Baltimore police officer cleared over Freddie Gray death |
2018 |
China tells US 'now is the time' if it wants peace with North Korea |
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