Vero - Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 24

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  Antonio José de Sucre
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  German battleship Bismarck
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  Patrick Francis Healy
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  Brooklyn Bridge
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  Bottle of 1973 Chateau Montelena Chardonnay
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  Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia
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  John Wesley
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  Theobald Wolfe Tone, one of the leaders of the Irish Rebellion of 1798
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  Operation Solomon evacuees arriving in Israel

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
; Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Russia	refimprove section
; Independence Day in Eritrea (1993)	advertisement, unreferenced section
1487 – Impostor Lambert Simnel was crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, as "King Template:Nowrap".	refimprove
1822 – Ecuadorian War of Independence: Troops led by Antonio José de Sucre secured the independence of Quito from Spain at the Battle of Pichincha.	multiple issues
1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the first common carrier and [[Class I railroad|Template:Nowrap railroad]] in the United States, opened for scheduled service.	refimprove section
1960 – Cordón Caulle in the Chilean Andes began to erupt, less than two days after the Valdivia earthquake struck the region.	unreferenced section
1982 – Iran–Iraq War: The port city of Khorramshahr was retaken by Iranian forces after 575 days, marking a turning point in the war.	stats/commanders are not sourced; main event is 5 sentences and the popular culture is the same size
1999 – Former President of Serbia Slobodan Milošević was indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.	refimprove section
Germanicus |b|15 BC	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
* 1873 – Patrick Francis Healy became the president of Georgetown University; he is regarded as the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States.	Only states he became rector on 24 May and that the process to appoint him president began

Eligible

• 1667 – Led by King Louis XIV, the French army invaded the Spanish Netherlands, beginning the War of Devolution.
• 1683 – Oxford University's Ashmolean Museum, the world's first university museum, opened.
• 1738 – At a Moravian meeting in Aldersgate, London, John Wesley (pictured) experienced a spiritual rebirth, leading him to launch the Methodist movement.
• 1830 – The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale.
• 1883 – New York City's Brooklyn Bridge opened as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
• 1930 – English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
• 1913 – Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia married Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover; the occasion was one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I began.
• 1941 – Second World War: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser Template:HMS at the Battle of the Denmark Strait.
• 1948 – Arab–Israeli War: After five days of fighting, Egyptian forces captured the Israeli community of Yad Mordechai after the defenders had abandoned it.
• 1956 – The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland.
• 1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the [[Mercury-Atlas 7|Template:Nowrap]] space capsule.
• 1970 – On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola Superdeep Borehole, which eventually reached a depth of Template:Convert, making it the deepest borehole ever drilled and the lowest artificial point on Earth.
• 1976 – In a wine competition in Paris, French judges shocked the wine industry by rating California wines higher than French ones.
• 1986 – A stationary front began over the central Caribbean Sea, leading to severe floods that over two weeks killed dozens of people in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.
• 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act of 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, was enacted.
• 1991 – The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert operation to bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel (evacuees pictured).
• 2006 – An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film that has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and re-energizing the environmental movement, was released.
• Born/died: | Lanfranc |d|1089| David I of Scotland |d|1153| Nicolaus Copernicus |d|1543| Elizabeth Carey, Lady Berkeley |b|1576| Marek Sobieski |b|1628| Cathinka Buchwieser |b|1789| Henry Sandham |b|1842| Annette von Droste-Hülshoff |d|1848| Arthur Wing Pinero |b|1855| Jan Smuts |b|1870| Cristina Calderón |b|1928| Fanny Searls |d|1939| Carmine Infantino|b|1925| Guy Tardif |d|2005| Huguette Clark |d|2011| Beverly White |d|2021| Santiago Omar Riveros |d|2024|

Notes

• Alan Shepard appears on May 5, so Scott Carpenter should not appear in the same year
• Israeli Declaration of Independence appears on May 14 and 1948 Arab–Israeli War appears on May 15, so Battle of Yad Mordechai should not appear in the same year
• 1960 Valdivia earthquake appears on May 22, so Puyehue-Cordón Caulle should not appear in the same year
• Elias Ashmole appears on May 23, so Ashmolean Museum should not appear in the same year

May 24: Aldersgate Day (Methodism) Template:Main page image/OTD

• 1567 – The mentally ill King Erik XIV of Sweden (pictured) and his guards murdered five incarcerated nobles, including some members of the influential Sture family.
• 1689 – The Act of Toleration became law, granting freedom of worship to English nonconformists under certain circumstances, but deliberately excluding Catholics.
• 1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 began, with battles beginning in County Kildare and fighting later spreading across the country.
• 1963 – United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy met with African American author James Baldwin in an unsuccessful attempt to improve race relations.
• 2014 – A gunman involved in Islamic extremism opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people.