Page 7: Historical Events In May - 24

1940  1st night game at NY's Polo Grounds (Giants 8, Braves 1) on May - 24.   

1941  On May - 24 bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive   

1941  On this day in history the birth of Bob Dylan, American singer/songwriter   

1941  On May - 24 the German battleship Bismarck sinks the British dreadnought Hood in the North Atlantic   

1941  On this day in history lancelot Holland, British vice-admiral ((WW II/Hood), dies in battle   

1943  On this day in history admiral Dönitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean   

1943  On May - 24 u-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje   

1943  Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean on May - 24.   

1943  Vladimir I Nemirovitch-Dantshenko, Russian playwright, dies at 84 on May - 24.   

1944  Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists on May - 24.   

1944  On May - 24 icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark   

1944  Major John Keefer Mahony (The Westminister Regiment(Motor)) wins the Victoria Cross at the Melfa River, Italy on May - 24.   

1946  On May - 24 transjordan (now known as Jordan) becomes a kingdom, with King Abdulla Ibn Ul-Hussein as the new monarch   

1948  On May - 24 the USSR stop road and rail traffic between Berlin and the West   

1948  On May - 24 alfred Kastner, composer, dies at 78   

1951  Racial segregation in Washington DC restaurants ruled illegal on this day in history.   

1951  On May - 24 uS performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)   

1951  On this day in history willie Mays begins playing for the New York Giants   

1953  On this day in history cor Hermus, actor (Bleeke Bet, William of Orange, Jantes), dies at 63   

1954  Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes first black to head an AMA unit on May - 24.   

1954  German airline Lufthansa forms on this day in history.   

1954  On this day in history iBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour   

1954  The first rocket attains 150 mile (241 km) altitude, White Sands NM on this day in history.   

1956  On May - 24 2,500th anniversary of the death of Buddha celebrated in India   

1956  On this day in history guy Kibbee, actor (Capt Blood, Babes in Arms), dies at 74   

1957  On May - 24 anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan   

1957  On this day in history heavy earthquake strikes Colombia   

1958  On May - 24 president Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion   

1958  United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service on May - 24.   

1958  UP & International News Service merge into United Press International on May - 24.   

1959  On this day in history empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England   

1959  The first house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA) on this day in history.   

1959  On this day in history john Foster Dulles, US Secretary of State (1953-59), dies at 71   

1960  1 millionth Dutch telephone installed on this day in history.   

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1522  On this day in history birth of john Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)   

1544  William Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism) was born on May - 24.   

1605  On this day in history birth of nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church   

1610  On this day in history birth of giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer   

1616  On May - 24 birth of john Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)   

1619  Philips Wouwerman(s), Dutch painter was born on May - 24.   

1650  On this day in history birth of john Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist   

1671  On May - 24 birth of gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)   

1144  On this day in history petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies   

1153  David I, King of Scotland, dies on this day in history.   

1351  Death of Abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco (b. circa 1297) on this day in history.   

1408  On May - 24 death of taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)   

1425  Death of Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362) on this day in history.   

1456  On this day in history death of ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396)   

1543  On this day in history nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland   

1612  On May - 24 robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/PM (1598-1612), dies at 48