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Events

• 1218 (808 years ago) The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
• 1944 (82 years ago) 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.
• 1967 (59 years ago) Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
• 1982 (44 years ago) Liberation of Khorramshahr: Iranians recapture the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran–Iraq War.
• 1991 (35 years ago) Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
• 1995 (31 years ago) While attempting to return to Leeds Bradford Airport in the United Kingdom, Knight Air Flight 816 crashes in Dunkeswick, North Yorkshire, killing all 12 people on board.
• 2014 (12 years ago) A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.
• 2019 (7 years ago) Twenty-two students die in a fire in Surat (India).

Births

• 1686 (340 years ago) Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Polish-German physicist and engineer, developed the Fahrenheit scale (died 1736)
• 1743 (283 years ago) Jean-Paul Marat, Swiss-French physician, journalist, and politician (died 1793)
• 1819 (207 years ago) Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom,
• 1905 (121 years ago) Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
• 1940 (86 years ago) Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)
• 1941 (85 years ago) Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, artist, writer, and producer; Nobel Prize laureate
• 1946 (80 years ago) Tansu Çiller, Turkish politician, Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1966 (60 years ago) Eric Cantona, French footballer and actor

Deaths

• 1153 (873 years ago) David I of Scotland,
• 1543 (483 years ago) Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer (born 1473)
• 1627 (399 years ago) Luis de Góngora, Spanish poet and cleric (born 1561)
• 1950 (76 years ago) Archibald Wavell, 1st Earl Wavell, English field marshal and politician, 43rd Governor-General of India (born 1883)
• 1959 (67 years ago) John Foster Dulles, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 52nd United States Secretary of State (born 1888)
• 1974 (52 years ago) Duke Ellington, American pianist and composer (born 1899)
• 1995 (31 years ago) Harold Wilson, English academic and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1916)
• 2023 (3 years ago) Tina Turner, American-Swiss rock and pop singer, dancer, actress and author (born 1939)

All 354 events, births and deaths of May 24