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On May 24, 919: The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.

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The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.

Franconia is a geographical region of Germany, characterised by its culture and East Franconian dialect. Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian-speaking South Thuringia, south of the Thuringian Forest—which constitutes the language boundary between Franconian and Thuringian—and the eastern parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg.

People

Born on May 24

Saim Ayub 2002– Pakistani cricketer (born 2002)
Emily Austin 2001– American influencer (born 2001)
Tarjei Sandvik Moe 1999– Norwegian actor (born 1999)
Shu Uchida 1996– Japanese voice actress
Rodrigo De Paul 1994– Argentine footballer (born 1994)
Jarell Martin 1994– American basketball player (born 1994)
Emily Nicholl 1994– Scotland netball international
Daiya Seto 1994– Japanese swimmer (born 1994)
Emily Temple Wood 1994– American Wikipedia editor and physician (born 1994)
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Marcus Bettinelli 1992– English footballer (born 1992)
Aled Davies 1991– Welsh Paralympic athlete
Cody Eakin 1991– Canadian ice hockey player (born 1991)
Mattias Ekholm 1990– Swedish ice hockey player (born 1990)
Joey Logano 1990– American racing driver (born 1990)
G-Eazy 1989– American rapper (born 1989)
Andrew Jordan 1989– British racing driver (born 1989)
Kalin Lucas 1989– American basketball player (born 1989)
Artem Anisimov 1988– Russian ice hockey player (born 1988)

People

Died on May 24

Gary Pierce English footballer and manager (1951–2025)
Doug Ingle American musician (1945–2024)
Kabosu Memed Japanese pet dog (c. 2005 – 2024)
Tina Turner Singer-songwriter and actress (1939–2023)
John "TotalBiscuit" Bain British game critic and commentator (1984–2018)
Gudrun Burwitz Daughter of Heinrich Himmler (1929–2018)
Dean Carroll English rugby league footballer
Kenneth Jacobs Australian judge
Tanith Lee British science fiction and fantasy writer (1947 – 2015)
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David Allen English cricketer (1935–2014)
Stormé DeLarverie American singer, activist and instigator of the Stonewall Uprising (1920–2014)
Mahafarid Amir Khosravi Iranian businessman
Knowlton Nash Canadian journalist (1927-2014)
John Vasconcellos American politician
Helmut Braunlich American classical composer
Ron Davies Welsh footballer
Gotthard Graubner German painter (1930–2013)
Haynes Johnson American journalist

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Every May 24 on record

  1. 919 The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom.

    Cultural region in Southern Germany

    Franconia is a geographical region of Germany, characterised by its culture and East Franconian dialect. Franconia is made up of the three Regierungsbezirke of Lower, Middle and Upper Franconia in Bavaria, the adjacent, Franconian-speaking South Thuringia, south of the Thuringian Forest—which constitutes the language boundary between Franconian and Thuringian—and the eastern parts of Heilbronn-Franconia in Baden-Württemberg.

  2. 1218 The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.

    1217–1221 attempted conquest of the Holy Land

    The Fifth Crusade was a campaign in a series of Crusades by Western Europeans to reacquire Jerusalem and the rest of the Holy Land by first conquering Egypt, ruled by the powerful Ayyubid sultanate, led by al-Adil, brother of Saladin.

  3. 1276 Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.

    King of Sweden from 1275 to 1290

    Magnus Ladulås or Magnus Birgersson was King of Sweden from 1275 until his death in 1290.

  4. 1487 The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign.

    Pretender to the throne of King Henry VII of England

    Lambert Simnel was a pretender to the throne of England. In 1487, his claim to be Edward Plantagenet, 17th Earl of Warwick, threatened the newly established reign of Henry VII (1485-1509). Simnel became the figurehead of a Yorkist rebellion organised by John de la Pole, Earl of Lincoln.

  5. 1567 Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles.

    King of Sweden from 1560 to 1569

    Erik XIV or Eric XIV became King of Sweden following the death of his father, Gustav I, on 29 September 1560. During a 1568 rebellion against him, Erik was incarcerated by his half-brother John III. He was formally deposed by the Riksdag on 26 January 1569.

  6. 1595 Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
  7. 1607 Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in North America, is founded.
  8. 1621 The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
  9. 1626 Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
  10. 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.
  11. 1683 The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England, opens as the world's first university museum.
  12. 1689 The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting dissenting Protestants but excluding Roman Catholics.
  13. 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.
  14. 1798 The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
  15. 1813 South American independence leader Simón Bolívar enters Mérida, leading the invasion of Venezuela, and is proclaimed El Libertador ("The Liberator").
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  1. 1822 Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
  2. 1832 The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
  3. 1844 Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from a committee room in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate a commercial telegraph line between Baltimore and Washington D.C.
  4. 1856 John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.
  5. 1861 American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia, with Colonel Elmer E. Ellsworth becoming the first Union officer to be killed during the war.
  6. 1873 Patrick Francis Healy becomes the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States.
  7. 1883 The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction.
  8. 1900 Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
  9. 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).
  10. 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.
  11. 1940 Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.
  12. 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.
  13. 1941 World War II: Battle of the Atlantic: In the Battle of the Denmark Strait, the German battleship Bismarck sinks the pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
  14. 1944 Börse Berlin building burns down after being hit in an air raid during World War II.
  15. 1944 Congress of Përmet occurs which establishes a provisional government in Albania in areas under partisan control, the first independent Albanian government since 1939. In honor of this the national emblem of Albania inscribed this date from 1946 until 1992.

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