Are you asking the question “What day of the week was I born?” Continue reading to find out what day of the week you were born.
Day Of The Week: May 24
May 24, 2024 is the 145th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 221 days remaining until the end of 2024. The day of the week is Friday.
If you are into daily horoscope then Gemini is your zodiac sign. Emerald is your modern birthstone. Sapphire is your mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
Historical Events: May 24
- 1689 –The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded.
- 1798 –The Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins.
- 1895 –Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted.
- 1901 –Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
- 1915 –World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1921 –The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.
- 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.
- 1990 –A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both.
- 2001 –Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.
Who were born on May 24?
- 1689 –Daniel Finch, 8th Earl of Winchilsea, English politician (d. 1769)
- 1819 –Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (d. 1901)
- 1899 –Kazi Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi National poet. (d. 1976)
- 1926 –Stanley Baxter, Scottish actor
- 1933 –Aharon Lichtenstein, French-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi and rosh yeshiva
- 1955 –Rosanne Cash, American singer
- 1962 –Gene Anthony Ray, American actor (d. 2003)
- 1967 –Bruno Putzulu, French actor
- 1978 –Johan Holmqvist, Swedish hockey player
- 1986 –Jordan Metcalfe, English actor
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