Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 24
This is a list of selected May 24 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Bottle of 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| ; Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Russia | refimprove section |
| ; Independence Day in Eritrea (1993) | advertisement, unreferenced section |
| 1487 – Impostor Lambert Simnel was crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, as "King Edward VI". | refimprove |
| 1738 – At a Moravian meeting in Aldersgate, London, John Wesley experienced a spiritual rebirth, leading him to launch the Methodist movement. | refimprove section |
| 1822 – Ecuadorian War of Independence: Troops led by Antonio José de Sucre secured the independence of Quito from Spain at the Battle of Pichincha. | no footnotes |
| 1830 – The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published as an original poem by Sarah Josepha Hale. | refimprove section |
| 1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the first common carrier and Class I railroad in the United States, opened for scheduled service. | refimprove section |
| 1930 – English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to successfully fly from England to Australia. | trivia |
| 1960 – Cordón Caulle in the Chilean Andes began to erupt, less than two days after the Valdivia earthquake struck the region. | unreferenced section |
| 1976 – In a wine competition in Paris, French judges shocked the wine industry by rating California wines higher than French ones. | refimprove |
| 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act of 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, was enacted. | lots of CN tags |
| 1999 – Former President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević was indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. | refimprove section |
| Germanicus (b. 15 BC) | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
Eligible
- 1689 – The Act of Toleration became law in England, granting freedom of worship to nonconformists under certain circumstances, but deliberately excluding Catholics.
- 1883 – New York City's Brooklyn Bridge opened – the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
- 1941 – Second World War: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser HMS Hood at the Battle of the Denmark Strait.
- 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: After five days of fighting, Egyptian forces finally captured the Israeli community of Yad Mordechai after the defenders had abandoned it.
- 1956 – The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland.
- 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.
- 1963 – United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy met with African American author James Baldwin in an unsuccessful attempt to improve race relations.
- 1970 – On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola Superdeep Borehole, eventually reaching 12,262 metres (40,230 ft), making it the deepest hole ever drilled and the deepest artificial point on the earth.
- 1982 – The port city of Khorramshahr was liberated by Iranian forces during the Iran–Iraq War after 575 days.
- 1991 – The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert operation to bring Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
- 2014 – A gunman opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people.
- Born/died: David I of Scotland (d. 1153) · Robert Hues (d. 1632) · Cathinka Buchwieser (b. 1789) · Jan Smuts (b. 1870) · Huguette Clark (d. 2011)
Notes
- Alan Shepard appears on May 5, so Scott Carpenter should not appear in the same year
- Israeli Declaration of Independence appears on May 14 and 1948 Arab–Israeli War appears on May 15, so Battle of Yad Mordechai should not appear in the same year
- 1960 Valdivia earthquake appears on May 22, so Puyehue-Cordón Caulle should not appear in the same year
- Elias Ashmole appears on May 23, so Ashmolean Museum should not appear in the same year
May 24: Aldersgate Day (Methodism)
- 1567 – The mentally ill King Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murdered five incarcerated nobles, including some members of the influential Sture family.
- 1683 – Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university museum, opened.
- 1913 – Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia (pictured) married Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover, one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I began fourteen months later.
- 1982 – The port city of Khorramshahr was liberated by Iranian forces during the Iran–Iraq War after 575 days.
- 2006 – An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film that has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and re-energizing the environmental movement, was released.
Marek Sobieski (b. 1628) · Princess Alexandrina Victoria of Kent (b. 1819) · Stormé DeLarverie (d. 2014)