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==Events== *1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. *1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral. *1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign. *1595 – ''Nomenclator'' of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library. *1607 – One hundred English settlers disembark in Jamestown, the first English colony in America. *1621 – The Protestant Union is formally dissolved. *1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan. *1667 – The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance. *1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded. *1738 – John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day and a church service is generally held on the preceding Sunday. *1798 – The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins. *1813 – South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed ''El Libertador'' ("The Liberator"). *1822 – Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito. *1830 – "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is published. * 1830 – The first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland. *1832 – The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference. *1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate the first telegraph line. *1856 – John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas. *1861 – American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia. *1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction. *1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted. *1900 – Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State. *1915 – World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies. *1921 – The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens. *1930 – Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight). *1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field. *1939 – First issue of ''Fashizmi'' is published in Tirana. *1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight. * 1940 – Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico. *1941 – World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship ''Bismarck'' sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, , killing all but three crewmen. *1943 – The Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer of the Auschwitz concentration camp. *1948 – Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later. *1956 – Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna. * 1956 – The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland. *1958 – United Press International is formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service. *1960 – Following the 1960 Valdivia earthquake, the largest ever recorded earthquake, Cordón Caulle begins to erupt. *1961 – American civil rights movement: Freedom Riders are arrested in Jackson, Mississippi, for "disturbing the peace" after disembarking from their bus. * 1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe. *1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the ''Aurora 7'' space capsule. *1963 – Baldwin–Kennedy meeting on race relations in the US *1967 – Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel. *1968 – FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City. *1970 – The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union. *1976 – The London to Washington, D.C., Concorde service begins. * 1976 – The Judgment of Paris takes place in France, launching California as a worldwide force in the production of quality wine. *1981 – Ecuadorian president Jaime Roldós Aguilera, his wife, and his presidential committee die in an aircraft accident while travelling from Quito to Zapotillo minutes after the president gave a famous speech regarding the 24 de mayo anniversary of the Battle of Pichincha. *1982 – Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War. *1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, is enacted. *1991 – Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel. *1992 – The last Thai dictator, General Suchinda Kraprayoon, resigns following pro-democracy protests. *1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia. *1994 – Four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison. *1999 – The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo. *2000 – Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. *2001 – Mountaineering: Temba Tsheri, a 16-year-old Sherpa, becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest. * 2001 – The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel kills 23 and injures over 200. *2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty. *2014 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people. * 2014 – At least 3 people are killed in a shooting at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, Belgium 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「May 24」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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