The May 24th is the 144e Jour of the Année (145e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier.

Events

11th century

• 1086 : Election of the pope Victor III

14th century

• 1337 : Philippe VI confiscates the Duchy of Guyenne to king d' Angleterre.

15th century

• 1431 : Jeanne d' Arc is condemned to roughing-hew.

16th century

• 1524 : A gigantic fire destroys 1.500 dwellings in the district of the Belfry and Croncels, with Troyes.

• 1543 : Publication of the work of Nicolas Copernic Revolution of the celestial spheres

18th century

• 1770 : Disgrace of Choiseul.

• 1778 : In support for American, the France declares the war with the England.

• 1797 : The British navigator James Wilson discovers the island of Mangareva to the Îles Gambier.

19th century

• 1814 : catch of Pensacola (Florida) by the States-uniens.

• 1822 : The Bataille of Pichincha seals the Independence of the Ecuador.

• 1825 : Crown Charles X of France.

• 1844 : Sending by the inventor Samuel Morse of the first message on the first line of Telegraph

• 1853 : Napoleon III offers to the the United Kingdom to conclude an agreement intended to support the Ottoman Empire against the Russia

• 1873 : Patrice of Mac-Mahon becomes President of the French Republic in the place of Adolphe Thiers. He is the second president of the Third Republic.

• 1883 : The Bridge of Brooklyn, first physical bond between New York and Brooklyn, is inaugurated.

• 1895 : The author Irish Oscar Wilde is stopped with London for “rough Sodomie and is immodesté”.

20th century

• 1937 : The bridge Golden Spoils, connecting two banks of bay of San Francisco, is inaugurated.

• 1950 : A law fixes the Fête of the mothers at last Sunday of May.

• 1964 : 320 people killed and 800 wounded at the end of a football game Peru - Argentinian.

• 1972 : died in a cuban prison of the Christian poet Pedro Shine Boitel

• 1985 : A Raz-de-marée raised by a cyclone makes at least 10  000 died and 250  000 homeless people with the Bangladesh.

• 1989 : According to the American television channel NBC, the investigators of the Navy estimate that a murder or a suicide could be at the origin of the explosion which has occurred on April 19th aboard US battleship Iowa, causing the death of 47 sailors.

• 1993 : Independence of the Érythrée

• 1993 : The American company Microsoft lance Windows NT .

• 1998 : Palm of Gold of the 51e Cannes festival for Eternity and a day of the Greek realizer Theo Angelopoulos

• 1999 : Arrest of the commando of radical nationalists Corsica S responsible for the assassination of the prefect Erignac.

• 2000 : Departure of the troops Israél iennes of the south of the Lebanon.

21e century

• 2006 : Usama Bin Laden clears Zacarias Moussaoui of the attacks of September 11th.

Births

• 1686 : Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, German physicist, inventor of the thermometer which bears its name († 1736).

• 1743 : Jean-Paul Marat, French politician, figure of the French revolution († 1793).
• 1751 : Charles-Emmanuel IV of Sardinia, King de Sardaigne of 1796 with 1802 († October 6th 1819).
• 1819 : Victoria, queen of the the United Kingdom and empress of the India S († 1901).
• 1887 : Jean of Varende, French writer († 1959).
• 1899 :
• Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player († 1938).
• Henri Michaux, writer and French painter of Belgian origin († 1984).
• 1900 : Eduardo De Filippo, scenario writer, scenario writer and Italian actor († 1984).
• 1905 : Mikhaïl Cholokhov, Russian writer , Nobel Prize of Literature 1965. († February 21st 1984)
• 1911: Win, military Burmese († December 5th 2002), directing Burma of 1962 with 1988.
• 1914 :
• Lilli Micrometer caliper, Austrian actress († 1986).
• George Tabori ( György Tábori ), scenario writer, actor and realizer Hungarian. († July 23rd 2007).
• 1916 : Juanito Valderrama, singer of Spanish flamenco († April 12th 2004).
• 1923 : Seijun Suzuki, Japanese realizer.
• 1931 : Michael Lonsdale, French actor.
• 1937 : archie Shepp, American jazzman.
• 1941 :
• Bob Dylan (Robert Zimmermann), musician of folk states-unien.
• Konrad Boehmer, Dutch type-setter of German origin.
• 1944 : Dominique Lavanant, French actress
• 1945: Priscilla Beaulieu, American actress, wife of Elvis Presley.
• 1946 : Jacky Berroyer, actor, writer and scenario writer French.
• 1951 :
• Jean-Pierre Bacri, actor and scenario writer French.
• Ronald A. Parise, American astronaut
• 1960: Kristin Scott Thomas, British actress .
• 1962 : Gene Anthony Ray, actor and American dancer.
• 1966 : Eric Confined, footballer and actor French.
• 1972 : Laure Sinclair, actress porn Frenchwoman.
• 1973 : Karim Alami, Moroccan tennis player.
• 1974 : Florence Baverel-Robert, biathlète French.
• 1978 : Rose, French singer (Keren Meloul of its true name)
• 1979: Tracy McGrady, American player of basketball.

Death

• 189 : Éleuthère, Pope.

• 1070 : Wulfhilde of Norway, wife of the duke of Saxony Ordulf of Saxony.
• 1085 : Gregoire VII 155ème pope.
• 1136 : Hugues de Payens First Large Master of the Templiers, (° 1070).
• 1201 : Thibaut III, count de Champagne.
• 1425 : Murdoch Stewart, 2nd duke of Albany. (° 1362).
• 1543 : Nicolas Copernic, celebrates astronomer Polish, (° 1473).
• 1627 : Shine of Gongora there Argote, poet Spanish (° 1561).
• 1725 : Jonathan Wild, celebrates criminal British 18th century. (° 1683)
• 1871: Georges Darboy, bishop of Nancy, then archbishop of Paris of 1863 with 1871, carried out by the Common to Paris. (° January 16th 1813)
• 1883: Abd El-Kader, founder of the Algerian State, (° 1808).
• 1903 : Marcel Renault industrial and French racing driver, (° 1872).
• 1959 : John Foster Dulles, American diplomat , which was the 51ème Secretary of State. (° February 2nd 1888)
• 1963: Elmore James, Guitarist and Singer of American Blues (° 1918)
• 1974: Duke Ellington, Pianist, Type-setter and Leader of Jazz. (° April 29th 1899)
• 1986: Stephen Thorne, candidate American astronaut (° February 11th 1953)
• 2001: Patricia Robertson, suction American astronaut (° March 12th 1963)
• 2006: Claude Piéplu, French actor (° 1923).
• 2007 : Paul Morelle, 89 years, French writer and journalist. (° December 4th 1917).

Celebrations

• Bermuda: National festival
• Érythrée: National festival
• Cuba, the United States, France: candles lit in the night in memory of the passion and of died of Pedro Shine Boitel, martyr of the Faith.

First names

• Amaël, Maël, Maëlle
• Donatien, Donasian
• Rogatien

Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day

• Donatien and Rogatien of Nantes († towards 300), martyrs.
• Vincent de Lérins

Catholic saints of the day

• Zoël

Orthodoxe saints of the day

• Nicétas Stylite de Pereyaslav

See too

• May 24th in sport
• May 24th in the railroads

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