What are the important events that happened on May 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
May 24: Facts & Myths About This Day
May 24 is the 144th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 221 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 11, 2023 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,684,886,400 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectatetracontatetragon’ day.
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Gemini is the zodiac 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 262 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 3,806 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 24 Historical Events
- 1276 –Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
- 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.
- 1844 –Samuel Morse sends the message “What hath God wrought” (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.
- 1856 –John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
- 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.
- 1968 –FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
- 1973 –Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the House of Lords.
- 1976 –The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins.
- 1981 –Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife and his presidential committee died in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha.
- 2004 –Communications in North Korea: North Korea bans mobile phones.
Who were born on May 24?
- 1830 –Alexei Savrasov, Russian painter (d. 1897)
- 1885 –Susan Sutherland Isaacs, English educational psychologist (d. 1948)
- 1911 –Barbara West, English survivor of the Titanic sinking (d. 2007)
- 1938 –Tommy Chong, Canadian-born actor and comedian
- 1949 –Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician
- 1968 –Mo Willems, American author and screenwriter
- 1971 –Kris Draper, Canadian ice hockey player (Detroit Red Wings)
- 1974 –Masahide Kobayashi, Japanese baseball player
- 1979 –Frank Mir, American UFC fighter
- 1989 –Andrew Jordan, British racing driver
Who died on May 24?
- 1632 –Robert Hues, English mathematician and geographer (b. 1553)
- 1734 –Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
- 1843 –Sylvestre François Lacroix, French mathematician (b. 1765)
- 1941 –Lancelot Holland, British admiral (b. 1887)
- 2000 –Kurt Schork, American reporter (b. 1947)
- 2008 –Dick Martin, American comedian (b. 1922)
- 2008 –Rob Knox, British actor (b. 1989)
- 2010 –Ray Alan, English ventriloquist & television entertainer (b. 1930)
- 2010 –Tapen Chatterjee, Bengali actor from India (b. 1937)
- 2011 –Huguette Clark, Heiress of the Clark Copper fortune, life-long reclusion from society (b. 1906)
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