May 24th, 2008

Born on May 24th, 2008

Age in days, weeks and months
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... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on May 24th?

May 24th, 2014

A gunman involved in Islamic extremism opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people.

May 24th, 2006

An Inconvenient Truth, a documentary film that has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and re-energizing the environmental movement, was released.

May 24th, 1991

The Israel Defense Forces began Operation Solomon, a covert operation to bring thousands of Ethiopian Jews to Israel (evacuees pictured).

May 24th, 1988

Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act of 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, was enacted.

May 24th, 1970

On the Kola Peninsula in Russia, drilling began on the Kola Superdeep Borehole, which eventually reached a depth of 12,262 metres (40,230 ft), making it the deepest borehole ever drilled and the lowest artificial point on Earth.

May 24th, 1963

United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy met with African American author James Baldwin in an unsuccessful attempt to improve race relations.

May 24th, 1962

Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule.

May 24th, 1956

The first edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held in Lugano, Switzerland.

May 24th, 1948

Arab–Israeli War: After five days of fighting, Egyptian forces captured the Israeli community of Yad Mordechai after the defenders had abandoned it.

May 24th, 1941

Second World War: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser Hood at the Battle of the Denmark Strait.

May 24th, 1930

English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.

May 24th, 1913

Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia married Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover; the occasion was one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I began.

May 24th, 1883

New York City's Brooklyn Bridge opened as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.

May 24th, 1830

The nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb" was first published as a poem by Sarah Josepha Hale.

May 24th, 1798

The Irish Rebellion of 1798 began, with battles beginning in County Kildare and fighting later spreading across the country.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on May 24th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on May 24th?

24

Tarjei Sandvik Moe

Norwegian actor

*May 24th, 1999, Oslo

51

Maia Sandu

President of Moldova since 2020

*May 24th, 1972, Risipeni

29

Verdet Kessler

Badminton player

*May 24th, 1994, Adelaide

32

Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin

Badminton player

*May 24th, 1991, Kuala Lumpur

35

Ondřej Kopřiva

Badminton player

*May 24th, 1988, Hradec Králové

82

Bob Dylan

American singer-songwriter (born 1941)

*May 24th, 1941, Duluth

80

Pedro González González

American actor (1925-2006)

*May 24th, 1925, Aguilares †February 6th, 2006, Culver City

49

Bertrand Gallet

Badminton player

*May 24th, 1974, Lille

58

Chris Jogis

Estonian-American badminton player

*May 24th, 1965, Palo Alto

29

Emily Temple-Wood

American Wikipedia editor and physician

*May 24th, 1994, Chicago

84

Helga Piur

German actress and voice actress

*May 24th, 1939, Berlin

55

Joseph Brodsky

Russian-American poet (1940-1996)

*May 24th, 1940, Saint Petersburg †January 28th, 1996, Brooklyn

49

Magnus Manske

German biochemist and MediaWiki developer

*May 24th, 1974, Cologne

68

Mai Zetterling

Swedish actress (1925–1994)

*May 24th, 1925, Västerås †March 17th, 1994, London

58

John C. Reilly

American actor (born 1965)

*May 24th, 1965, Chicago

74

Jim Broadbent

English actor

*May 24th, 1949, Lincoln

83

Werner von Moltke

Olympic athlete (1936-2019)

*May 24th, 1936, Mühlhausen †July 29th, 2019, Nieder-Olm

81

Victoria

Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 to 1901

*May 24th, 1819, Kensington Palace †January 22nd, 1901, Osborne House

54

Jacob Rees-Mogg

British politician

*May 24th, 1969, Hammersmith

81

Fraser Stoddart

Scottish chemist and Nobel Laureate in 2016 for the design and synthesis of molecular machines

*May 24th, 1942, Edinburgh

Same year
Born in 2008

15

Cecilia Loffredo

Danish actress

*July 24th, 2008, Copenhagen

15

Jackson Robert Scott

American child actor

*September 18th, 2008, Phoenix

15

Lilly Platt

British environmentalist

*April 18th, 2008, London

15

Iain Armitage

American child actor

*July 15th, 2008, Georgia

16

Emme Muñiz‎

Daughter of Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez

*February 22nd, 2008, Long Island

16

Rayssa Leal

Brazilian skateboarder

*January 4th, 2008, Imperatriz

16

Meilee Condron

American actress

*March 17th, 2008, Connecticut

15

Helena Zengel

German actress

*June 10th, 2008, Berlin

15

Harshaali Malhotra

Indian child actress

*June 3rd, 2008, Mumbai

16

Sienna Belle

Atriz e cantora canadense

*January 26th, 2008, Cambridge

15

GUSTAVOEGATOTV

Brazilian record producer

*December 11th, 2008, Iguatu

15

Sophia Baram

American pair skater

*November 24th, 2008, Beverly Hills

15

Veronika Zhilina

Russian figure skater

*May 15th, 2008, Arkhangelsk

15

Gavin Warren

American actor

*April 17th, 2008, Houston

16

Abby Ryder Fortson

American actress

*March 14th, 2008, Burbank

15

Emma Behn

Norwegian show jumper, youngest child of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn

*September 29th, 2008, Lommedalen

15

Alia De Vercelli

Australian actress

*November 30th, 2008, Australia

16

Raegan Revord

American actress

*January 3rd, 2008, San Diego

15

Sky Brown

British-Japanese skateboarder and surfer

*July 7th, 2008, Miyazaki

16

Nela Lopušanová

Slovak ice and ball hockey player

*February 26th, 2008, Žilina

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on May 24th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Saints Cyril and Methodius Day , Victoria Day; celebrated on Monday on or before May 24.) which are celebrated on May 24th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Born on May 24th, 2008
Future birthdays

Leap year

Yes: 2008 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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