Page 5: Historical Events In May - 24

1895  Playright Oscar Wilde is convicted on a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison on May - 24.   

1895  Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight on May - 24.   

1895  H S T L "Stork" Hendry, cricketer (Australian all-rounder post-WWI) on May - 24.   

1895  Joseph Quinaux, Belgian painter, dies at 73 on May - 24.   

1898  On May - 24 kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando)   

1899  On this day in history the first auto repair shop opens in Boston   

1899  1st auto repair shop opens (Boston) on this day in history.   

1899  Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times) on this day in history.   

1900  On May - 24 australians cross Vaal River in South Africa   

1900  Britain annexes Orange Free State on May - 24.   

1900  34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21¼ on this day in history.   

1901  Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales on this day in history.   

1902  On this day in history empire Day first celebrated in Britain   

1902  On this day in history empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain   

1903  On May - 24 aram Katchaturian, Armenian composer, (Earth)   

1904  On May - 24 george Formby, [William Booth], Brit singer/comic (Let George Do It)   

1905  39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08 on May - 24.   

1905  Mikhail Sholokhov, USSR, writer (And Quiet Flows the Don, Nobel 1965) on this day in history.   

1906  Edmund Sargant, solicitor on this day in history.   

1908  On this day in history belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election   

1908  On this day in history kresimir Fribec, composer   

1909  On this day in history bristol University granted Royal Charter   

1909  On this day in history guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca)   

1910  On this day in history margers Zarins, composer   

1912  On May - 24 joan Hammond, British operatic soprano   

1913  On May - 24 audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936)   

1914  On this day in history clifford Irving, Chairman (Isle of Man Govt)   

1915  On May - 24 enemy Contracts Annulment Act   

1915  Formal truce on Gallipoli during which the Turkish dead of the 19 May attacks are buried on this day in history.   

1915  On May - 24 italy declares war on Austria-Hungary   

1915  Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations on this day in history.   

1916  Conscription begins in Britain on this day in history.   

1916  On May - 24 french driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured   

1916  On this day in history last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname   

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1522  On this day in history birth of john Jewel, English bishop (d. 1571)   

1544  On this day in history birth of william Gilbert, Essex England, physicist (researcher into magnetism)   

1605  On this day in history birth of nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church   

1610  On May - 24 birth of giovanni Battista Chinelli, composer   

1616  John Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682) was born on this day in history.   

1619  Philips Wouwerman(s), Dutch painter was born on this day in history.   

1650  John Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist was born on this day in history.   

1671  On this day in history birth of gian Gastone de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1737)   

1144  Petronella, wife of earl Floris II the Vette of Holland/regent, dies on May - 24.   

1153  On May - 24 david I, King of Scotland, dies   

1351  Death of Abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco (b. circa 1297) on May - 24.   

1408  On May - 24 death of taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)   

1425  Death of Murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362) on this day in history.   

1456  Death of Ambroise de Loré, French military commander (b. 1396) on this day in history.   

1543  On May - 24 nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland   

1612  Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury/PM (1598-1612), dies at 48 on this day in history.