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 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 221 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is May 11, 2025 – a Saturday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,748,044,800 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 269 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 4,537 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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May 24 Historical Events
- 1621 –The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
- 1689 –The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
- 1798 –The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
- 1822 –Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
- 1830 –Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.
- 1901 –Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
- 1940 –Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
- 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.
- 1994 –Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
- 2002 –Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty.
Who were born on May 24?
- 1689 –Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (d. 1769)
- 1936 –Harold Budd, American composer and poet
- 1940 –Joseph Brodsky, Russian-born poet, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)
- 1949 –Tomaž Pisanski, Slovenian mathematician
- 1960 –Doug Jones, American actor
- 1960 –Kristin Scott Thomas, English actress
- 1964 –Liz McColgan, British runner
- 1967 –Steve McDonald, American bassist (Redd Kross)
- 1972 –Joanna Wiśniewska, Polish discus thrower
- 1980 –Cecilia Cheung, Hong Kong actress and singer
Who died on May 24?
- 1792 –George Brydges Rodney, 1st Baron Rodney, British naval officer (b. 1718)
- 1876 –Georgi Benkovski, Bulgarian revolutionary (b. 1843)
- 1881 –Samuel Palmer, English artist (b. 1805)
- 1941 –Lancelot Holland, British admiral (b. 1887)
- 1945 –Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (b. 1892)
- 1972 –Ismail Yasin, Egyptian comedian and actor (b. 1915)
- 1979 –Sir Ernest Bullock, English organist and composer (b. 1890)
- 2000 –Kurt Schork, American reporter (b. 1947)
- 2006 –Jesus Ledesma Aguilar, Mexican convicted killer (b. 1963)
- 2006 –Michał Życzkowski, Polish technician (b. 1930)
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