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Events from History on May 24

1086 : Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III
1153 : Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland
1300 : King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured
1370 : Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV
1487 : Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin
1626 : Peter Minuet buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24
1653 : German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria
1658 : Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought
1660 : English king Charles II visits Netherlands
1667 : French troops attack into Southern Netherlands
1689 : English Parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants
1697 : English king Willem III travels through northern Europe
1726 : -26] People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax
1738 : Methodist Church forms
1809 : Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war
1815 : George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
1818 : Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida
1822 : Battle of Pichincha, Bol¡var secures independence of Quito from Spain
1824 : Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
1829 : Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate
1830 : "Mary Had A Little Lamb," is written
1830 : 1st passenger rail service in US (Baltimore & Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1844 : Samuel FB Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (1st telegraph msg)
1846 : Gen Zachary Taylor captures Monterey in M‚xican War
1854 : Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston
1854 : Lincoln University, Penn, 1st Black college in US forms by Prebyts
1856 : Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas
1861 : Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops
1861 : Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
1862 : Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time
1862 : Westminster Bridge across Thames opens
1866 : Berkeley, Calif named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
1870 : Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US
1873 : Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit," premieres in Paris
1881 : Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die
1883 : Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres Arthur & Gov Cleveland
1884 : Anti-Monopoly party & Greenback Party forms People's Party in US
1887 : Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants E Afr Assn at East African harbors
1890 : Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany
1890 : Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
1890 : Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London
1895 : Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight
1899 : 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
1900 : Britain annexes Orange Free State
1902 : Cleve's Bill Bradley is 1st ALer to hit a HR run in 4 consecutive
1902 : Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain
1908 : Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election
1908 : John Masefields "Tragedy of Nan," premieres in London
1909 : Bristol University granted Royal Charter
1915 : Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary
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
1918 : Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning
1921 : 1st parliament for Northern Ireland elected
1921 : British Legion forms
1922 : Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6øC)
1922 : Russian-Italian trade agreement signed
1928 : Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yanks beat A's 9-7
1928 : Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again
1929 : Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
1930 : 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
1930 : Bradman scores 252* Australia v Surrey, 290 mins, 29 fours
1931 : 1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad
1933 : Dmitri Shostakovitch's Preludes, premieres in Moscow
1934 : Colombia & Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia
1935 : Swedish princess Ingrid marries Danish crown prince Frederik (IX)
1936 : Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party
1936 : Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record
1936 : by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yanks beat A's 25-2
1940 : Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
1940 : Dutch army demobilizes
1940 : German tanks reach Atrecht France
1940 : Hitler affirms Gen von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"
1941 : Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood, 1,416 die 3 survive
1943 : Admiral D”nitz 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
1946 : Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager
1948 : Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera," premieres in Cambridge
1951 : Racial segregation in Wash DC restaurants ruled illegal
1951 : US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1951 : Willie Mays begins playing for NY Giants
1953 : Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus
1954 : 1st rocket attains 150 mi (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
1954 : million operations an hour
1957 : Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
1957 : Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia
1958 : "New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 432 perfs
1958 : Pres 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
1960 : 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
1961 : 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
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 : 18th Tony Awards: Luther & Hello Dolly win
1964 : Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan
1964 : Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn)
1964 : Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
1965 : Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept
1965 : communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1966 : "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances
1967 : AFL grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals
1968 : Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
1968 : Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession
1968 : Pres De Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse
1970 : Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
1971 : A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
1972 : US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 : Dean Martin Show, last airs on NBC-TV
1975 : Dutch Govt of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16
1976 : 1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC)
1976 : Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
1977 : USSR President Podgorny resigns
1978 : Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect
1979 : Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar
1979 : USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 : Iran rejects a call to World Court to release US hostages
1981 : Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain
1983 : Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria
1983 : Supreme Court rules govt can deny tax breaks to schools that
1983 : racially discriminated against students
1984 : "Wiz" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 13 performances
1985 : "View to a Kill" premieres in US
1985 : -25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die
1986 : Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy
1986 : Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel
1986 : Reginald Huffstetler trode water for 985 hrs
1987 : 33rd LPGA Championship won by Jane Geddes
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 & Last Crusade" premieres
1989 : French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
1989 : NY Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3
1989 : Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack
1989 : innings before giving up his 1st run of season
1992 : Despite trailing 7-1, NY Yanks tie Milwaukee Brewers & then score
1993 : Eritrea achieved independence from Ethiopia after 30-year civil war
1993 : Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement
1993 : Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers & 5 citizens in Turkey
1994 : Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash
1996 : "Spy Hard," starring Leslie Nielsen is released
1997 : Actor Tim Allen arrested for drunk driving in Mich
1997 : STS 84 (Atlantis 19), lands
1997 : Telstar-5 Proton Launch, Successful
1998 : Indianapolis 500 race
2002 : Indian Stock Market raises up by 142 points after investors began thinking there won't be a war with Pakistan.
2002 : 42 persons were burnt alive when fire broke in a Shoe factory.
2002 : Indian Government approves four companies to sell petrol through private firms including Reliance and Essar and the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation.
2002 : US President Mr. George Bush Jr meets Russian President Vladimir Putin to sign an arms treaty.

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