24 Mey
The 24t o Mey is the 144t day o the year (145t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 221 days ti come.
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Events
- 1622 - Peter Minuit buys the isle o Manhattan.
- 1822 - The Battle o Pichincha secures the unthirldom o the Presidency o Quito.
- 1832 - The first Kinrick o Greece is declared.
- 1883 - In New York Ceety, the Brooklyn Brig opens.
- 1900 - In the Boer War, the Unitit Kinrick annexes the Orange Free State in present-day Sooth Africae.
- 1901 - The Caerphilly Pit Disaster in Wales kills 78 miners.
- 1930 - Amy Johnson completes her flicht fre Ingland tae Australie.
- 1941 - Warld War II: German battleship "Bismarck" sinks the Ryal Navy's "HMS Hood".
- 1944 - A referendum in Iceland results in 97% o voters supportin the kintra acomin a republic.
- 1956 - The first Eurovision Sang Contest taks place in Lugano, Swisserland.
- 1964 - The Lima Stadium Disaster in Peru kills 328 fowk.
- 1988 - Section 28, a law that bans the 'promotion' o homosexuality in Great Breetain, is approved bi the Breetish pairlament.
- 1992 - Thomas Klestil is electit Preses o Austrick.
- 1993 - Eritrea gains unthirldom frae Ethiopie.
- 2001 - A biggin collapses durin a weddin pairty in Jerusalem, killin 20 fowk.
- 2003 - Sertab Erener o Turkey wins the Eurovision Sang Contest, while the Unitit Kinrick gets 0 points.
- 2008 - Dima Bilan wins the Eurovision Sang Contest in Belgrade, Serbie, for Roushie.
- 2015 - Andrzej Duda is electit Preses o Poland.
- 2017 - Taiwan's hichest coort rules in favour o same-sex mairage.
- 2019 - Same-sex mairage becomes legal in Taiwan.
- 2019 - Theresa May propales her intention tae demit as Conservative Pairty leader an Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick.
Births
- 15 BC - Germanicus, Roman general (d. 19)
- 1686 - Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Pols-German pheesicist an ingineer (d. 1736)
- 1743 - Jean-Paul Marat, French politeecian (d. 1793)
- 1819 - Queen Victoria (d. 1901)
- 1852 - Robert Bontine Cunninghame Graham, Scots politeecian, writer, jurnalist an adventurer (d. 1936)
- 1856 - Andrew Watson, Guyanese-Scots fitbawer (d. 1921)
- 1899 - Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player (d. 1938)
- 1905 - Mikhail Sholokhov, Roushie novelist (d. 1984)
- 1926 - Stanley Baxter, Scots actor
- 1940 - Joseph Brodsky, Roushie poet (d. 1996)
- 1941 - Bob Dylan, American sangster-sangwriter an guitarist
- 1942 - Fraser Stoddart, Scots-American chemist
- 1944 - Patti LaBelle, American sangster
- 1945 - Priscilla Presley, American actress
- 1949 - Jim Broadbent, Inglis actor
- 1956 - Dominic Grieve, Inglis politeecian
- 1956 - Doug Rougvie, Scots fitbawer
- 1958 - Willie Coffey, Scots politeecian
- 1960 - Kristin Scott Thomas, Inglis-French actress
- 1964 - Liz McColgan, Scots runner
- 1965 - John C. Reilly, American actor, sangster, producer an screenwriter
- 1966 - Éric Cantona, French fitbawer an actor
- 1969 - Richard Lochhead, Scots politeecian
- 1969 - Jacob Rees-Mogg, Inglis politeecian
- 1972 - Jim McIntyre, Scots fitbawer
- 1973 - Jill Johnson, Swadish sangster
- 1973 - Ruslana, Ukrainian sangster, dauncer, producer an actress
- 1987 - Fabio Fognini, Italian tennis player
Daiths
- 1153 - David I, Keeng o Scots (b. 1083)
- 1425 - Murdoch Stewart, Duke o Albany, Scots nobleman (b. 1362)
- 1543 - Nicolaus Copernicus, Pols astronomer (b. 1473)
- 1806 - John Campbell, 5t Duke o Argyll, Scots sodger an nobleman (b. 1723)
- 1908 - Old Tom Morris, Scots gowfer (b. 1821)
- 1974 - Duke Ellington, American pianist an componer (b. 1899)
- 1995 - Harold Wilson, Prime Meenister o the Unitit Kinrick (b. 1916)
- 2017 - Paul Keetch, Inglis politeecian (b. 1961)
- 2019 - Murray Gell-Mann, American pheesicist (b. 1929)
Halidays
- Independence Day (Eritrea)
- Commonweel Day (Belize)
- Bermuda Day
- Battle o Pichincha Day (Ecuador)
- Aldersgate Day (Methodism)
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