On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on May 24:
0015 Julius Caesar Germanicus Roman commandant
1544 William Gilbert Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism)
1605 Nikon [Nikita Minin] patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1650 John Churchill 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist
1738 George III king of Great-Britain (1760-1820)
1743 Jean-Paul Marat France, revolutionist
1753 Oliver Cromwell Burlington NJ, black who served with Washington
1794 William Whewell British philosopher (History of Inductive Science)
1803 Charles Bonaparte Corsican/French prince of Canino/Musignano
1810 Abraham Geiger theologian/author/leader of Reform Judaism
1811 Charles Clark Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1877
1816 Emanuel Leutze US, painter (Washington Crossing the Delaware)
1816 Robert Seaman Granger (Union Army Brevet Major General, died in 1894)
1819 Victoria Alexandrine London England, Queen of Great Britain (1837-1901)
1854 Louis Mountbatten Admiral (WWI)
1866 Armando Frid Argentina, live until July 28 1990 (124 years)
1870 Jan Christian Smuts proponent of Commonwealth & League of Nations
1891 William F Albright US old testament scholar/archaeologist
1893 W H Walter Baade German/US astronomer (Andromeda)
1895 Samuel I Newhouse US millionaire publisher (Parade, Vogue, Glamour)
1898 Kathleen Hale British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando)
1905 Mikhail Sholokhov USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965)
1909 Wilbur Mills (Representative-D-AR
1910 Margers Zarins composer
1918 Coleman A Young civil rights leader (Mayor-D-Detroit)
1934 Jane Byrne (Mayor-D-Chicago)
1938 Tommy Chong Edmonton, Alberta, comedian/actor (Cheech & Chong)
1941 Bob Dylan [Zimmerman] Duluth MN, singer/songwriter (Rainy Day Women #12 & 35)
1943 Frank Oz Muppeteer (Grover, Yoda)
1943 Gary Burghoff Bristol CT, actor (Radar-MASH)
1944 Patti LaBelle [Holt] Philadelphia PA, singer (LaBelle-Lady Marmalade)
1945 Priscilla Presley Brooklyn NY, actress (Jenna-Dallas, Naked Gun)
1951 Ronald A Parise Warren OH, PhD/astronaut (STS 35, STS 67)
1955 Rosanne Cash Memphis TN, country singer (I Wonder)
1971 Troy Barnett NFL defensive end (New England Patriots)
1982 Baby Boy Samane South Africa, son of Christina, heaviest known viable baby (22 lbs 8 oz/10.2 kg)
Deaths which occurred on May 24:
1153 David I King of Scotland, dies
1543 Nicolas Copernicus astronomer, dies in Poland
1851 Stanko Vraz [Jakob Frass] Slavic poet (Grammatica), dies at 40
1861 Elmer Ellsworth US warrior (Chicago Zouaves), shot to death at 23
1861 James T Jackson US landlord (doodde EE Ellsworth), shot dead)
1879 William Lloyd Garrison abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73
1941 Lancelot Holland British Vice-Admiral ((WWII/Hood), dies in battle
1959 John Foster Dulles US Secretary of State (1953-59), dies at 71
1963 Elmore James blues guitarist, dies at 45 of a heart attack
1974 Duke Ellington composer/bandleader/pianist, dies of cancer at 75
1981 George Jessel US comedian/America's toastmaster general (Diary of Young Comic), dies from a heart attack at 83
1986 Stephen D Thorne Lieutenant Commander USN/astronaut, dies in a plane crash at 33
1991 Gene Clark folk-rocker (Byrds-Tambourine Man), dies at 49
1993 Milton O Thompson astronaut (Dynasoar, X-15), dies at 66
1994 Yehuda Mor-Mirkovsky Israeli kibbutz-founder, dies at 96
1995 Harold Wilson British PM (1964-70, 74-76), dies of cancer at 79
1995 Mike Pyne jazz Pianist, dies at 54
1996 Alexander Langsdorf physicist, dies at 83
1996 Jack McCarthy kiddie show host (Popeye), dies of cancer at 81
1997 Edward Mulhare actor (Ghost & Mrs Muir), dies of lung cancer at 74
Reported: MISSING in ACTION
1968 RUCKER EMMETT JR.---WICHITA FALLS TX.
1968 SHANKS JAMES LEE---OYSTER POINT NY.
1969 MANSKE CHARLES J.---EL CAMPO TX.
1969 MONTEZ ANASTACIO---PRESIDIO TX.
1972 BEELER CARROLL R.---FRISCO TX.
[03/28/73 RELEASED BY DRV, ALIVE AND WELL 98]
1972 HENN JOHN R. JR.---SUTTON MA.
POW / MIA Data & Bios supplied by
the P.O.W. NETWORK. Skidmore, MO. USA.
On this day...
1086 Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III
1153 Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland
1487 Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin
1626 Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24
1658 Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought
1689 English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
1726 People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax
1738 Methodist Church is established
1809 Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war
1815 George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
1818 General Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola FL
1822 At Battle of Pichincha, Bolívar secures independence of Quito from Spain
1824 Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
1829 Pope Pius VIII issues his program for the pontificate
1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb" is written
1830 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1844 Samual FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph message)
1846 General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey in Mexican War
1854 Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston
1854 Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1st Black college in US forms by Prebyts
1856 Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas
1861 Alexandria VA occupied by Federal troops
1861 Major General Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
1862 Westminster Bridge across Thames opens
1866 Berkeley CA named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
1883 Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur & Governor Cleveland
1884 Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party form People's Party in the US
1890 G. Train & S. Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
1899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
1902 Cleveland's Bill Bradley is 1st American League-er to hit a homerun in 4 consecutive games
1902 Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain
1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1916 Conscription begins in Britain
1916 French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured
1916 Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
1916 US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
1921 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected
1921 British Legion is formed
1928 Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yankees beat A's 9-7
1930 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
1930 Babe Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
1931 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
1936 Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party
1940 Dutch army demobilizes
1940 Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
1940 German tanks reach Atrecht France
1941 Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive
1943 Admiral Dönitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
1943 U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
1944 Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists
1944 Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
1951 Racial segregation in Washington DC restaurants ruled illegal
1951 Willie Mays begins playing for the New York Giants
1953 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus
1954 1st rocket attains 150 mile (241 km) altitude, White Sands NM
1954 Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes 1st black to head an AMA unit
1954 German airline Lufthansa forms
1954 IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour!
1957 Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
1958 President Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion
1958 UP & International News Service merge into United Press International
1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)
1959 Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England
1961 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson MS
1961 Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1962 M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into earth orbit
1963 1st Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
1964 Longest homerun (471') in Baltimore's Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minnesota)
1965 Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1967 AFL grants a franchise to the Cincinnati Bengals
1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession
1968 President De Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse
1969 Beatles' "Get Back" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 5 weeks
1974 Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1975 Soyuz 18B carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1976 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington DC)
1976 Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1977 USSR President Podgorny resigns
1979 Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar
1980 Iran rejects a call to the World Court to release US hostages
1981 Bobby Unser wins, loses, & wins a controversial Indianapolis 500
1983 Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students
1984 Detroit Tigers win American League record 17th straight road game
1986 Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel
1986 Reginald Huffstetler treds water for 985 hours
1987 Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indianapolis 500
1988 John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute
1988 Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe
1989 "Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" premieres
1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
1989 New York Yankee pitcher Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his 1st run of the season
1993 Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war
1993 Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers & 5 citizens in Turkey
1993 The archbishop of Guadalajara, Mexico, was shot to death at Guadalajara's airport when his car was caught in a shootout between rival drug cartels.
1997 Telstar-5 Proton Launch, Successful
1998 Indianapolis 500 race; Eddie Cheever Jr. wins with an average speed of 145.155 mph
2000 Israeli troops pulled out unilaterally from south Lebanon, ending 18 years of occupation.
2000 The state of Maryland dismissed its wiretapping case against Linda Tripp after a judge disallowed most of Monica Lewinsky's testimony.
2001 Democrats gained control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Vermont Sen.(Jumpin) James Jeffords abandoned the Republican Party and declared himself an independent.
Holidays
Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
ancient Rome : Quando Rex Comitiavit; a. d. ix Kal. Junias
Bahamas, Belize, Gibraltar, Lesotho, Turk & Caicos : Commonwealth Day
Bulgaria : Education Day/Enlightenment & Culture Day
Ecuador : Battle of Pichincha (1822)
England : Victoria Day/Empire Day (1819)
France : La Fete des Saintes Maries
Alchemy Day
Kirtland Warbler Day.
National Strawberry Month
Religious Observances
Roman Catholic : Memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary, help of Christians
Orthodox : Feast of SS Cyril & Methodius, evangelizers
Lutheran : Commemoration of Copernicus, teacher
Lutheran : Commemoration of Euler, teacher
Anglican : Commemoration of Jackson Kemper, 1st missionary bishop in US
Anglican : Commemoration of 1st Book of Common Prayer
Feast of SS. Donatian and Rogatian, martyrs.
Religious History
1738 English founder of Methodism John Wesley underwent his famous religious conversion at Aldersgate Chapel in London. Later, in his journal, Wesley reflected under this date: 'I felt my heart strangely warmed....'
1752 According to a note inscribed in his Bible, Robert Robinson, 16, was "born again" ("renatus") under the preaching of English revivalist George Whitefield. Robinson later authored the hymn, "Come, Thou Fount of Every Blessing."
1892 Birth of Earl B. Marlatt, American religious educator and hymnologist. In 1926 Marlatt penned the hymn, "`Are Ye Able?' Said the Master," to be sung in a consecration service at Boston University's School of Religion.
1930 Pioneer linguist Frank C. Laubach, while serving as a Congregational missionary, wrote in a letter: 'As one makes new discoveries about his friends by being with them, so one discovers the "individuality" of God if one entertains him continuously.'
1950 In Boston, during its annual gathering, the Northern Baptist Convention formally changed its name to the American Baptist Convention. Twenty-two years later, in 1972, the denomination changed its name once more, and became the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A.
Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Thought for the day :
"When all else fails, read the directions."
Actual Newspaper Headlines...
Deer Kill 17,000
Why did the Chicken cross the Road...
B.F. Skinner:
Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own free will.
Dumb Laws...
Topeka, Kansas:
Servers are forbidden to serve wine in teacups.
What an employee Really Means...
"I'M EXTREMELY PROFESSIONAL:"
I carry a Day-Timer.
