Page 5: Historical Events In May - 24

1895  Playright Oscar Wilde is convicted on a morals charge in London and sentenced to prison on this day in history.   

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 this day in history kathleen Hale, British children book writer/illustrator (Orlando)   

1899  On May - 24 the first auto repair shop opens in Boston   

1899  On May - 24 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)   

1899  Suzanne Lenglen, France, Wimbledon tennis champion (6-times) on May - 24.   

1900  Australians cross Vaal River in South Africa on this day in history.   

1900  On this day in history britain annexes Orange Free State   

1900  34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21¼ on May - 24.   

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

1902  On May - 24 empire Day first celebrated in Britain   

1902  Empire Day 1st celebrated in Britain on this day in history.   

1903  Aram Katchaturian, Armenian composer, (Earth) on this day in history.   

1904  On this day in history george Formby, [William Booth], Brit singer/comic (Let George Do It)   

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

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

1906  On May - 24 edmund Sargant, solicitor   

1908  Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election on May - 24.   

1908  Kresimir Fribec, composer on this day in history.   

1909  Bristol University granted Royal Charter on May - 24.   

1909  Guillermo Diaz-Plaja, Spanish literary/poet (Lorca) on May - 24.   

1910  On this day in history margers Zarins, composer   

1912  On May - 24 joan Hammond, British operatic soprano   

1913  On this day in history audrey Brown, England, 4 X 100m runner (Olympic-silver-1936)   

1914  Clifford Irving, Chairman (Isle of Man Govt) on this day in history.   

1915  Enemy Contracts Annulment Act on May - 24.   

1915  On May - 24 formal truce on Gallipoli during which the Turkish dead of the 19 May attacks are buried   

1915  On this day in history italy declares war on Austria-Hungary   

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

1916  On May - 24 conscription begins in Britain   

1916  French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured on May - 24.   

1916  On May - 24 last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname   

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1522  On May - 24 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  On this day in history birth of john Maitland, Duke of Lauderdale (d. 1682)   

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

1650  On May - 24 birth of john Churchill, 1st duke of Marlborough, English general strategist   

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 this day in history.   

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

1351  On May - 24 death of abu al-Hasan 'Ali, Sultan of Morocco (b. circa 1297)   

1408  On this day in history death of taejo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1335)   

1425  On this day in history death of murdoch Stewart, 2nd Duke of Albany, Scottish politician (b. 1362)   

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

1543  Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland on this day in history.   

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