May 24

May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (145th in leap years). There are 221 days remaining.

Events:

• 1844 - First telegram? sent by Samuel Morse from Baltimore? to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".
• 1883 - [Brooklyn Bridge]? is opened.
• 1899 - United States' first public parking garage? opens in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1940 - First successful single-rotor helicopter? flight (see [Igor Sikorsky]?).
• 1943 - [Josef Mengele]? becomes chief medical in Auschwitz.
• 1993 - Eritrea becomes independent of Ethiopia.
• 1993 - Microsoft introduces Windows NT.

Births:

• 15 [Julius Caesar Germanicus]?
• 1544? [William Gilbert]?
• 1605 [Nikita Minin]?
• 1610 [Giovanni Battista Chinelli]?
• 1619 [Philips Wouwerman(s)]?
• 1650 [John Churchill]?
• 1677 [Alexandre de Villenueve]?
• 1736 [Juan de Sesse y Balaguer]?
• 1738 [George III]?
• 1743 [Jean-Paul Marat]?
• 1751 [Charles Emanuel II]?
• 1753 Oliver Cromwell
• 1754 [Giacomo Conti]?
• 1767 [Joseph Ignaz Schnabel]?
• 1781 [[Louis-François Dauprat]]
• 1794 [William Whewell]?
• 1803 [Charles Bonaparte]?
• 1807 [Cornelis E van Koetsveld]?
• 1807 [Thomas Duncan]?
• 1810 [Abraham Geiger]?
• 1811 [Charles Clark]?
• 1816 Emanuel Leutze
• 1816 [Robert Seaman Granger]?
• 1819 [Victoria Alexandrine]?
• 1831 [Richard Hoffman]?
• 1838 [Paul Laband]?
• 1840 [Frederick Walker]?
• 1841 [Charles Napier Henry]?
• 1841 [Tito Mattei]?
• 1850 [Ernest Albert Waterlow]?
• 1852 [Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham]?
• 1854 [Louis Mountbatten]?
• 1855 [Arthur Wing Pinero]?
• 1858 [Johan C Braakensiek]?
• 1866 [Armando Frid]?
• 1870 [Jan Christian Smuts]?
• 1878 [Lillian Moller Gilbreth]?
• 1881 [Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky]?
• 1882 [Creighton Hale]?
• 1886 [Paul Paray]?
• 1891 [Benedictus H Danser]?
• 1891 [William F Albright]?
• 1893 [Walter Baade]?
• 1895 [Samuel I. Newhouse]?
• 1898 [Kathleen Hale]?
• 1899 [Suzanne Lenglen]?
• 1903 [Aram Katchaturian]?
• 1903 [Hilding Hallnas]?
• 1904 [George Formby]?
• 1904 [Kenneth Buckley]?
• 1904 [Patrick Johnson]?
• 1905 [Mikhail Sholokhov]?
• 1905 [Zdenek Blazek]?
• 1906 [Edmund Sargant]?
• 1906 [John Mayo]?
• 1908 [Kresimir Fribec]?
• 1908 [Michael Roberts]?
• 1909 [Guillermo Diaz-Plaja]?
• 1909 [[Louis Fürnberg]]
• 1909 [Wilbur Mills]?
• 1910 [Margers Zarins]?
• 1910 [Nils-Eric Fougstedt]?
• 1912 [Joan Hammond]?
• 1912 [Joseph Anthony Deuster]?
• 1913 [Audrey Brown]?
• 1913 [Willi Daume]?
• 1914 [Clifford Irving]?
• 1914 [George Tabori]?
• 1914 [Lilli Palmer]?
• 1916 [Roden Cutler]?
• 1917 [Derek Hodgson]?
• 1917 [Lord Campbell of Alloway]?
• 1917 [Theodore Hesburgh]?
• 1918 [Coleman A Young]?
• 1918 [D V Jennings]?
• 1922 [Sadao Bekku]?
• 1923 [Paul Bramley]?
• 1923 [Siobhan McKenna]?
• 1925 [[François J [Frank] le Roux]]
• 1925 [Mai Zetterling]?
• 1926 [Len Maddocks]?
• 1927 [John Kelly Jr]?
• 1927 [Martinus J Mentz]?
• 1927 [Timothy Beven]?
• 1928 [Peter Griffiths]?
• 1928 [Stanley Baxter]?
• 1928 [William Trevor]?
• 1930 [Hans-Martin Linde]?
• 1930 [Ivor Richardson]?
• 1932 [Arnold Wesker]?
• 1932 [Elaine Malbin]?
• 1932 [Graham Arnold]?
• 1932 [James Anderton]?
• 1932 [Terence Heiser]?
• 1933 [Christopher Staughton]?
• 1933 [Hemchandra Tukaram Dani]?
• 1933 [[Joaquín Vaquero Turcios]]
• 1933 [Tony Mullett]?
• 1934 [Jane Byrne]?
• 1936 [Harold Budd]?
• 1938 [Glen Hall]?
• 1938 [Tommy Chong]?
• 1939 [Dixie Carter]?
• 1939 [Gert J Schutte]?
• 1940 [Joseph Brodsky]?
• 1941 [Andres Garcia]?
• 1941 [Baroness Hollis of Heigham]?
• 1941 Bob Dylan
• 1941 [Brian Dennis]?
• 1941 [Konrad Boehmer]?
• 1941 [Martin Mogg]?
• 1941 [Tony Valentino]?
• 1942 [Ali Bacher]?
• 1942 [Derek Quinn]?
• 1942 [Sarah Dash]?
• 1943 [Frank Oz]?
• 1943 [Gary Burghoff]?
• 1943 [James Levine]?
• 1944 [Arthur Brown]?
• 1944 [Patti LaBelle]?
• 1945 [Priscilla Presley]?
• 1945 [Richard Ottaway]?
• 1945 [Steven Norris]?
• 1946 [Irina Kirszenstein Szewinska]?
• 1946 [Jeremy Treglown]?
• 1946 [Steve Upton]?
• 1947 [Luke Rittner]?
• 1947 [Mike Reid]?
• 1949 [John Illsley]?
• 1950 [Jo Ann Washam]?
• 1951 [Pat Bradley]?
• 1951 [Rob Baker]?
• 1951 [Ronald A Parise]?
• 1953 [Alfred Molina]?
• 1953 [[Nell [Laura] Campbell]]
• 1955 [Rosanne Cash]?
• 1955 [Thad Ackel]?
• 1956 [Helen Terry]?
• 1957 [John G Rowland]?
• 1959 [George Glanos]?
• 1960 [Pete Metzelaars]?
• 1962 [Bev Lidyoff]?
• 1962 [Dorothy Trapp]?
• 1963 [Gene Anthony Ray]?
• 1963 [Horace Holden Jr]?
• 1963 [Joe Dumars]?
• 1963 [Ken Ftach]?
• 1964 [Adrian Moorhouse]?
• 1964 [Elizabeth McColgan]?
• 1964 [Pat Verbeek]?
• 1965 [Chris Jorgis]?
• 1966 [Tommy Turner]?
• 1966 [Tony Jones]?
• 1967 [Heavy D]?
• 1967 [Margaret Crowley]?
• 1967 [Steve McDonald]?
• 1968 [Jerry Dipoto]?
• 1969 [Martin McCague]?
• 1969 [Rich Robinson]?
• 1970 [Jeff Zgonina]?
• 1970 [Nick Castaneda]?
• 1970 [Tommy Page]?
• 1971 [Paul Ragusa]?
• 1971 [Troy Barnett]?
• 1972 [Danny Bautista]?
• 1972 [Petra Schwarz-Ritter]?
• 1972 [Tito Paul]?
• 1972 [Viktor Ujcik]?
• 1973 [Karim Alami]?
• 1973 [Ville Peltonen]?
• 1974 [Ace Custis]?
• 1974 [Marcus Coleman]?
• 1974 [Maria Alejandra Vento]?
• 1974 [Natalie Neaton]?
• 1975 [Katie King]?
• 1978 [Jade Winter]?
• 1979 [Tracy McGrady]?
• 1980 [Billy Sullivan]?
• 1981 [Shelby Lyons]?
• 1982 [Baby Boy Samane]?
• 1983 [Daniel Connolly]?
• 1996 [Matthew Eappen]?

Deaths:

• 1144 Petronella?
• 1153? [David I]?
• 1543 [Nicolas Copernicus]?
• 1612 [Robert Cecil]?
• 1665 [Maria de Jesus de Agreda]?
• 1669? [Pieter Cuypers]?
• 1670 [Ferdinand II]?
• 1696? [Albertine Agnes]?
• 1751 [William Hamilton]?
• 1762 [Joseph Umstatt]?
• 1773 [Jan Zach]?
• 1792 [George Brydges]?
• 1792 [Jakob Lenz]?
• 1804 [Simon Style]?
• 1817 [[Juan Meléndez Valdés]]
• 1826 [Friedrich Fesca]?
• 1831 [Benjamin Carr]?
• 1844 [William Crockford]?
• 1848 [[Anette von Droste-Hülshoff]]
• 1850 [Jane Porter]?
• 1851 [Stanko Vraz]?
• 1861 [Elmer Ellsworth]?
• 1861 [James T Jackson]?
• 1871 [Francisco Salvador Daniel]?
• 1872 [Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld]?
• 1876 [Henry Kingsley]?
• 1879 [William Lloyd Garrison]?
• 1881 [Samuel Palmer]?
• 1894 [William Joseph Westbrook]?
• 1895 [Joseph Quinaux]?
• 1919 [Amado Nervo]?
• 1941 [Lancelot Holland]?
• 1943 [Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko]?
• 1948 [Alfred Kastner]?
• 1953 [Cor Hermus]?
• 1956 [Guy Kibbee]?
• 1959 [John Foster Dulles]?
• 1963 [Elmore James]?
• 1968 [Bernard Rogers]?
• 1969 [Mitzi Green]?
• 1972 [Asta Nielsen]?
• 1972 [Gavin Muir]?
• 1974 [Duke Ellington]?
• 1976 [Henk Lankhorst]?
• 1976 [Melle Oldeboerrigter]?
• 1979 [Jan Arvan]?
• 1981 [George Jessel]?
• 1981 [Jack Warner]?
• 1981 [[Jaime Roldós Aguilera]]
• 1986 [[Gunnar Björnstrand]]
• 1986 [Stephen Thorne]?
• 1986 [Yakima Canutt]?
• 1987 [Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold]?
• 1988 [James Hamilton]?
• 1988 [Tom Burtt]?
• 1989 [Herwig Hensen]?
• 1991 [Gene Clark]?
• 1992 [Joan Sanderson]?
• 1993 [Jesus Posadas Ocampo]?
• 1993 [Milton Thompson]?
• 1994 [Jean-Pierre Plooij]?
• 1994 [John Barrington Wain]?
• 1994 [Sandor Lakatos]?
• 1994 [Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky]?
• 1995 [Harold Wilson]?
• 1995 [Mike Pyne]?
• 1996 [Alexander Langsdorf]?
• 1996 [Harry Campion]?
• 1996 [Jack McCarthy]?
• 1996 [Jacob R Druckman]?
• 1996 [John Abbott]?
• 1996 [Joseph Mitchell]?
• 1997 [Edward Mulhare]?

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