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On this Day ~ May 24th

1086
Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III

1153
Malcolm IV becomes king of Scotland

1626
Peter Minuit 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

1726
People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax

1738
Methodist Church is established

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

1830
"Mary Had A Little Lamb" is written

1854
Lincoln University, Pennsylvania, 1st Black college in US forms by Prebyts

1862
Westminster Bridge across Thames opens

1881
Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sinks near London Ontario, 200 die

1883
Brooklyn Bridge opened by President Arthur & Governor Cleveland

1890
Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London

1899
1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)

1915
Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary

1915
Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations

1916
Conscription begins in Britain

1916
US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker

1922
Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6ºC)

1922
Russian-Italian trade agreement signed

1930
1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)

1931
1st air-conditioned train installed-B&O Railroad

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
Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer in Auschwitz concentration camp.

1951
Racial segregation in Washington DC restaurants ruled illegal

1954
German airline Lufthansa forms

1957
Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan

1959
1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills PA)

1961
27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson MS

1964
Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan

1966
"Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances

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

1976
1st commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Washington DC)

1980
"Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56

1983
Supreme Court rules government can deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminated against students

1985
"View to a Kill" premieres in US

1985
Cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die

1986
Margaret Thatcher becomes 1st British PM to visit Israel

1989
"Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade" premieres

2001
The Versailles wedding hall collapse in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel's worst-ever civil disaster.