This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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                               By Scott Labrecque 
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Births:  
 
05/24/  15 Julius Caesar Germanicus, Roman commandant 
05/24/1544 William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism

05/24/1610 Giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer 
05/24/1619 Philip Wouwerman, painter 
05/24/1677 Alexandre de Villenueve, composer 
05/24/1736 Juan de Sesse y Balaguer, composer 
05/24/1743 Jean-Paul Marat, France, revolutionist 
05/24/1751 Charles Emanuel II, King of Sardina (1796-1802) 
05/24/1753 Oliver Cromwell, Burlington NJ, black who served with Washington 
05/24/1754 Giacomo Conti, composer 
05/24/1767 Joseph Ignaz Schnabel, composer 
05/24/1781 Louis-Fran‡ois Dauprat, composer/horn player 
05/24/1794 William Whewell, British philospher (History of Inductive Science) 
05/24/1803 Karel LJL Bonaparte, Corsican/French prince of Canino/Musignano 
05/24/1807 Cornelis E van Koetsveld, vicar/literature 
05/24/1807 Thomas Duncan, painter 
05/24/1810 Abraham Geiger, theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism 
05/24/1811 Charles Clark, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1877 
05/24/1816 Emanuel Leutze, US, painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware) 
05/24/1816 Robert Seaman Granger, (Union Army Bvt Major general, died in 1894) 
05/24/1819 Victoria Alexandrine, Queen of Great Britain (1837-1901) 
05/24/1831 Richard Hoffman, composer 
05/24/1838 Paul Laband, German lawyer 
05/24/1840 Frederick Walker, painter 
05/24/1841 Charles Napier Henry, painter 
05/24/1841 Tito Mattei, pianist/composer 
05/24/1850 Ernest Albert Waterlow, water-color painter 
05/24/1852 Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, author/politician 
05/24/1854 Louis Mountbatten, admiral (WW I) 
05/24/1855 Arthur Wing Pinero, British playwright 
05/24/1858 Johan C Braakensiek, political cartoonist (Green Amsterdammer) 
05/24/1866 Armando Frid, Argentina, live until July 28 1990 (124 years) 
05/24/1870 Jan C Smuts, philosopher/general/premier South-Africa (1919..48) 
05/24/1870 Jan Christian Smuts, proponnent of Commonwealth & League of Nations 
05/24/1878 Lillian M Gilbreth, engineer (CIOS Gold Medal-1954) 
05/24/1881 Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer 
05/24/1882 Creighton Hale, actor (Gorilla Man, Way Down East) 
05/24/1886 Paul Paray, Le Tr‚port Normandy, conductor/composer (Artemis Trouble

05/24/1891 Benedictus H Dancer, botanist 
05/24/1891 William F Albright, US old testament scholar/archaeologist 
05/24/1893 W H Walter Baade, German/US astronomer (Andromeda) 
05/24/1895 Samuel I Newhouse, US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour)

05/24/1898 Kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando) 
05/24/1899 Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times) 
05/24/1903 Aram Katchaturian, Armenian composer, (Earth) 
05/24/1903 Hilding Hallnas, composer 
05/24/1904 George Formby, [William Hoy Booth], British singer/comic 
05/24/1904 Kenneth Buckley, British rear-admiral 
05/24/1905 Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965

05/24/1905 Zdenek Blazek, composer 
05/24/1906 Edmund Sargant, solicitor 
05/24/1906 John Mayo, director-general (Help the Aged) 
05/24/1908 Kresimir Fribec, composer 
05/24/1909 Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca) 
05/24/1909 Wilbur Mills, (Rep-D-Ark)/involved with Fanne Foxe 
05/24/1910 Margers Zarins, composer 
05/24/1910 Nils-Eric Fougstedt, composer 
05/24/1912 Joan Hammond, British operatic soprano 
05/24/1912 Joseph Anthony (Deuster), US director/actor (Matchmaker, Tomorrow) 
05/24/1913 Audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936) 
05/24/1914 Clifford Irving, Chairman (Isle of Man Govt) 
05/24/1914 Lilli Palmer, [Peiser], Germany, actress (Gentle Sex, Lotte in Weima

05/24/1916 Roden Cutler, Governor (New South Wales) 
05/24/1917 Derek Hodgson, British high court judge 
05/24/1917 Lord Campbell of Alloway, QC 
05/24/1918 Coleman A Young, civil rights leader (Mayor-D-Detroit) 
05/24/1918 D V Jennings, solicitor 
05/24/1922 Sadao Bekku, composer 
05/24/1923 Paul Bramley, oral surgeon 
05/24/1923 Siobhan McKenna, Ireland, stage actress (Saint Joan) 
05/24/1925 Francois J [Frank] le Roux, chief whip of S Afr Conserv Party 
05/24/1925 Mai Zetterling, director/actress (Frieda, Quartet, Lost People) 
05/24/1927 John Kelly Jr, US, sculls (Oly-bronze-1956)/brother of Grace Kelly 
05/24/1927 Martinus J Mentz, South African Conservative parliament leader 
05/24/1927 Timothy Beven, CEO (Barclays Bank) 
05/24/1928 Peter Griffiths, MP 
05/24/1928 Stanley Baxter, British comic 
05/24/1928 William Trevor, Brit writer (Children of Dynmouth, Fools of Fortune)

05/24/1930 Hans-Martin Linde, composer 
05/24/1930 Ivor Richardson, Judge (NZ Court of Appeals) 
05/24/1932 Arnold Wesker, British playwright 
05/24/1932 Elaine Malbin, opera singer 
05/24/1932 Graham Arnold, artist 
05/24/1932 James Anderton, Chief constable of Manchester England 
05/24/1932 Terence Heiser, British senior civil servant 
05/24/1933 Christopher Staughton, British Lord Justice of Appeal 
05/24/1933 Tony Mullett, director-general (National Criminal Intelligence Servi

05/24/1934 Jane Byrne, (Mayor-D-Chic) 
05/24/1936 Harold Budd, composer 
05/24/1938 Tommy Chong, Edmonton, Alberta, comedian/actor (Cheech & Chong) 
05/24/1939 Gert J Schutte, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (GPV) 
05/24/1940 Joseph Brodsky, USSR, author (Less than 1, Nobel 1987) 
05/24/1941 Andres Garcia, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, actor (Tiger Shark) 
05/24/1941 Baroness Hollis of Heigham, history lecturer (U of East Anglia) 
05/24/1941 Bob Dylan, [Zimmerman], Minn, singer/songwriter (Blowin' in Wind) 
05/24/1941 Brian Dennis, composer 
05/24/1941 Konrad Boehmer, composer 
05/24/1941 Martin Mogg, governor (British Durham Prison) 
05/24/1941 Tony Valentino, rocker (Standells-Dirty Water) 
05/24/1942 Derek Quinn, guitarist (Freddie & Dreamers-I'm Telling You Now) 
05/24/1942 Sarah Dash, Trenton, NJ, rocker (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade) 
05/24/1943 Gary Burghoff, actor (Radar-M*A*S*H) 
05/24/1943 James Levine, British conductor 
05/24/1944 Arthur Brown, rock vocalist (Fire) 
05/24/1945 Priscilla Presley, Bkln NY, actress (Jenna-Dallas, Naked Gun) 
05/24/1945 Richard Ottaway, MP 
05/24/1945 Steven Norris, British MP 
05/24/1946 Irina Kirszenstein Szewinska, Lennigrad, long jumper (Oly-bronze-197

05/24/1946 Jeremy Treglown, English scholar/editor (TLS) 
05/24/1946 Steve Upton, rock drummer (Wishbone Ash-There's the Rub, Locked In) 
05/24/1947 Luke Rittner, sect-gen (Arts Council) 
05/24/1947 Mike Reid, Altoona Penn, country singer (Walk on Faith) 
05/24/1949 John Illsley, rocker (Dire Straits) 
05/24/1951 Pat Bradley, golfer (leader in LPGA career earnings) 
05/24/1951 Rob Baker, rocker (Red Rider) 
05/24/1953 Alfred Molina, actor (Enchanted April, Prick up your Ears) 
05/24/1953 Nell Campbell, [Laura], Sydney Australia, actress (Rocky Horror) 
05/24/1955 Patti LaBelle, [Holt], Phila Pa, singer (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade) 
05/24/1955 Rosanne Cash, Memphis Tn, country singer (Seven Year Ache, I Wonder)

05/24/1955 Thad Ackel, horse trainer 
05/24/1956 Helen Terry, rocker (Now You're Mine) 
05/24/1957 John G Rowland, (Rep-R-CT, 1985-  ) 
05/24/1959 George Glanos, horse trainer 
05/24/1962 Lois Ayres, [Sondra Stillman], XXX actress (Black Chill, Sin City) 
05/24/1963 Gene Anthony Ray, Harlem NY, actor (Leroy-Fame) 
05/24/1963 Joe Dumars, NBA guard (Detroit Pistons) 
05/24/1964 Adrian Moorhouse, British 100m breaststroker (Olympic-gold-1988) 
05/24/1965 Chris Jorgis, Palo Alto Calif, US badminton player (Olympic-92) 
05/24/1966 Tommy Turner, jockey 
05/24/1967 Steve McDonald, rocker (Redd Kross) 
05/24/1970 Thomas Alden Page, Glenridge NJ, rocker (New Kids-Hangin' Tough) 
05/24/1982 ?, heaviest known viable baby, South Africa (10.2 kg) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
05/24/1144 Petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies

05/24/1153 David I, King of Scotland, dies 
05/24/1543 Copernicus, allegedly sees 1st copy of De Revolutionibus &, dies 
05/24/1543 Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland 
05/24/1612 Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, dies 
05/24/1665 Maria de Jesus de Agreda [Maria Coronel], Spanish franciscans, dies 
05/24/1670 Ferdinand II, ruler of Toscane, dies at 59 
05/24/1696 Albertine Agnes, princess of Orange-Nassau, dies at 62 
05/24/1751 William Hamilton, of Gilbertsfield, poet, dies 
05/24/1762 Joseph Umstatt, composer, dies at 51 
05/24/1773 Jan Zach, composer, dies at 73 
05/24/1792 George Brydges, 1st baron Rodney/admiral, dies 
05/24/1792 Jakob M R Lenz, writer (That Soldier), dies 
05/24/1804 Simon Style, Fries medical/writer, dies at 73 
05/24/1817 Juan Mel‚ndez Vald‚s, Spanish lawyer/poet, dies at 63 
05/24/1826 Friedrich Fesca, composer, dies at 37 
05/24/1831 Bemnjamin Carr, composer, dies at 62 
05/24/1844 William Crockford, clubman/gambler, dies 
05/24/1850 Jane Porter, novelist (Scottish Chiefs), dies at 74 
05/24/1851 Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40 
05/24/1861 Elmer Ellsworth, US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23 
05/24/1871 Francisco Salvador Daniel, composer, dies at 40 
05/24/1872 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, painter, dies 
05/24/1876 Henry Kingsley, English/Australian writer, dies at 46 
05/24/1879 William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73 
05/24/1881 Samuel Palmer, landscape painter, dies 
05/24/1894 William Joseph Westbrook, composer, dies at 63 
05/24/1941 Lancelot Holland, British vice-admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle

05/24/1948 Alfred Kastner, composer, dies at 78 
05/24/1953 Cor Hermus, actor, dies at 63 
05/24/1956 Guy Kibbee, actor (Capt Blood, Babes in Arms), dies at 74 
05/24/1959 John Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59), dies at 71 
05/24/1963 Elmore James, blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack 
05/24/1968 Bernard Rogers, composer, dies at 75 
05/24/1969 Mitzi Green, actress (Huckleberry Finn, Tom Sawyer), dies at 48 
05/24/1972 Asta Nielsen, actress (Joyless Street), dies at 88 
05/24/1972 Gavin Muir, actor (Hollister-Betty Hutton Show), dies at 64 
05/24/1974 Duke Ellington, blues singer, dies at 75 of cancer 
05/24/1976 Henk Lankhorst, pacifist/2nd-Member of parliament (PSP), dies at 62 
05/24/1976 Melle J Oldeboerrigter ('Melle'), painter/cartoonist, dies at 65 
05/24/1979 Jan Arvan, actor (Red Skelton Show, Zorro), dies 
05/24/1981 George Jessel, actor (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 83 
05/24/1981 Jack Warner, [Waters], actor (Captive Heart), dies at 84 
05/24/1981 Jaime Rold¢s, President of Ecuador, dies in air crash 
05/24/1986 Gunnar Bj”rnstrand, actor (7th Seal, Devil's Eye), dies at 76 
05/24/1986 Stephen D Thorne, Lt Cmdr USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33

05/24/1986 Yakima Canutt, actor/director (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 91 
05/24/1987 Hermione Ferdinanda Gingold, actress (Gigi, Music Man), dies at 89 
05/24/1988 Hamish Hamilton, publisher, dies 
05/24/1989 Herwig Hensen [Flor Mielants], Flemish dramatist/poet, dies 
05/24/1991 Gene Clark, singer/composer (Byrds), dies 
05/24/1992 Joan Sanderson, actress, dies 
05/24/1993 Jesus Posadas Ocampo, Mexican cardinal/archbishop, dies at 66 
05/24/1994 Jean-Pierre E Plooij, writer (Vogel House), dies at 48 
05/24/1994 Sandor Lakatos, Hungarian violist/orchestra leader, dies at 69 
05/24/1994 Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky, Israeli kibbutz-founder, dies at 96 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
05/24/1086 Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III 
05/24/1153 Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland 
05/24/1300 King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured 
05/24/1370 Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV 
05/24/1430 Jeanne d'Arc captured during battle 
05/24/1487 Lambert Simnel, pretender to English throne, crowned in Dublin 
05/24/1658 Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought 
05/24/1660 English king Charles II visits Netherlands 
05/24/1689 English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants 
05/24/1726 -26] People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax 
05/24/1738 Methodist Church established 
05/24/1809 Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war 
05/24/1815 George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia 
05/24/1818 Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida 
05/24/1822 Battle of Pichincha, Bol¡var secures independence of Quito from Spai

05/24/1824 Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee 
05/24/1829 Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate 
05/24/1830 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland

05/24/1844 Samuel FB Morse taps out 'What hath God wrought' (1st telegraph msg)

05/24/1846 Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in M‚xican War 
05/24/1854 Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston 
05/24/1854 Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in US forms by Prebyts 
05/24/1861 Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops 
05/24/1861 Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves 'contraband of war' 
05/24/1862 Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time 
05/24/1862 Westminster Bridge across Thames opens 
05/24/1866 Berkeley, Calif named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne) 
05/24/1870 Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US 
05/24/1873 C H F Peters discovers asteroid #131 Vala 
05/24/1878 1st American bicycle race held (Boston) 
05/24/1878 CA Parker (Harvard) wins 1st American bike race, Beacon Park Boston 
05/24/1881 Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario 
05/24/1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland 
05/24/1884 Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People's Party in US 
05/24/1890 Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma 
05/24/1890 Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London 
05/24/1895 Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight 
05/24/1899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston) 
05/24/1900 Britain annexes Orange Free State 
05/24/1902 Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain 
05/24/1908 Belgium catholic socialistic/liberal parliamentary election 
05/24/1909 Bristol University granted Royal Charter 
05/24/1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary 
05/24/1916 Conscription begins in Britain 
05/24/1916 Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname 
05/24/1918 Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning 
05/24/1921 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected 
05/24/1921 British Legion forms 
05/24/1922 Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6øC) 
05/24/1922 Russian-Italian trade agreement signed 
05/24/1926 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4) 
05/24/1927 J Comas Sola discovers asteroid #1117 Reginita 
05/24/1928 Umberto Nobile fly airship over North Pole again 
05/24/1929 Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings 
05/24/1930 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)

05/24/1930 Amy Johnson lands at Port Darwin after flying from London 
05/24/1931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad 
05/24/1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1195 Orangia 
05/24/1933 Dmitri Sjostakovitsj' Preludes, premieres in Moscow 
05/24/1934 Colombia & Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia 
05/24/1935 1st major league night baseball game, in Cincinnati (Reds 2, Phil 1)

05/24/1935 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1385 Gelria 
05/24/1936 Bishops forbid NSB-membership 
05/24/1940 1st night game at NY's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1) 
05/24/1940 1st night game at St Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2) 
05/24/1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio 
05/24/1940 Dutch army demobilizes 
05/24/1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood (1416 die) 
05/24/1943 Admiral D”nitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean 
05/24/1944 Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists 
05/24/1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark 
05/24/1946 Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager 
05/24/1951 Racial segregation in Wash DC restaurants ruled illegal 
05/24/1951 Willie Mays begins playing for NY Giants 
05/24/1954 1st rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM 
05/24/1954 Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit 
05/24/1954 German airline Lufthansa forms 
05/24/1957 Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan 
05/24/1957 Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia 
05/24/1958 Pres Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion 
05/24/1958 UP & International News Service merge into United Press Internationa

05/24/1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited, Pleasant Hills, Pa 
05/24/1959 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England 
05/24/1960 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed 
05/24/1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi 
05/24/1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit 
05/24/1962 M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit 
05/24/1963 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely 
05/24/1964 Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan 
05/24/1964 Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn) 
05/24/1964 Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300 
05/24/1967 AFL grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals 
05/24/1968 Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days 
05/24/1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession 
05/24/1969 Beatles' 'Get Back,' single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks 
05/24/1970 Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult 
05/24/1971 A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard 
05/24/1975 Dutch Govt of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16 
05/24/1975 Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4 
05/24/1976 1st commerial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC) 
05/24/1977 USSR President Podgorny resigns 
05/24/1978 Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect 
05/24/1980 Flyers 4-Isles 5 (OT)-Stanley Cup-Isles win cup 4-2 (15-6) 
05/24/1980 Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages 
05/24/1980 NY Islanders beat Phila Flyers 4 games to 2 for Stanley Cup 
05/24/1981 Al Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indy 500 
05/24/1981 Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain 
05/24/1983 Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria 
05/24/1984 Det Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game 
05/24/1985 'View to a Kill' premieres in US 
05/24/1985 -25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die 
05/24/1986 Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy 
05/24/1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel 
05/24/1986 Mont Canadiens beat Calgary Flames 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 
05/24/1986 Reginald Huffstetler treds water for 985 hrs 
05/24/1987 Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indy 500 
05/24/1988 Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals 
05/24/1989 'Indiana Jones & Last Crusade' premieres 
05/24/1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice 
05/24/1989 NHL's NY Rangers fire GM & coach Phil Esposito 
05/24/1990 Andre Dawson recieves a record 5 intentional walks in a game 
05/24/1990 Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1 for Stanley Cup 
05/24/1992 Al Unser Jr wins Indy 500 
05/24/1993 Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement 
05/24/1993 Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers & 5 citizens in Turkey 
  
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