About the day » Monday May 24, 1897Calender converter

• Albert LaRue Martin, Ft. Dodge, Webster Co., IA († 1967)
• Adriana Allegonda de Vos, Dinteloord
• Adrianus de Hek, Hardinxveld
• Adrianus Nagtegaal, Maarssen, Nederland
• Adriana van Hooijdonk, Zundert, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1992)
• Aagie Molenaar, 's-Gravenzande, Westland, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• * Jacobus Hendrikus Velthoven, Monster († 1963)
• Adriana van BROEKHOVEN Jdr, Dirksland, Goeree-Overflakkee, NL-ZH († 1950)
• Abraham (Marinus) van de S-Zande, Tholen gem. Tholen, Zeeland, Nederland NED
• Abraham van de Sande, Tholen († 1970)

• Anna Friederike Luise von der Asseburg (74)
• Adrianus Johannes van Opheusden (33), Tilburg, Gemeente Tilburg
• Anna Frederike Louise van Asseburg-Falkenstein (75), Dresden, Saksen
• Auke Piers Hollander (89), Smilde, Nederland
• Arien GALIS (35), Groningen
• Alida van Giersbergen (0), Drunen
• Arij KOOIJ (72), Alphen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Amand Cornil Jérémie VANPEE (41), Socx... Hauts de France
• Anna Maria Richards (53), unbekannt
• Anna Maria Catharina Beckers (1), Montfort, Gemeente Roerdalen, Limburg, Nederland

• 1891 » William F. Albright, American archaeologist, philologist, and scholar († 1971)
• 1895 » Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr., American publisher, founded Advance Publications († 1979)
• 1899 » Henri Michaux, Belgian-French poet and painter († 1984)
• 1899 » Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player († 1938)
• 1900 » Eduardo De Filippo, Italian actor and screenwriter († 1984)
• 1901 » José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer and manager († 1968)
• 1902 » Lionel Conacher, Canadian football player and politician († 1954)
• 1902 » Sylvia Daoust, Canadian sculptor († 2004)
• 1905 » George Nakashima, American woodworker and architect († 1990)
• 1905 » Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate († 1984)

• 1861 » Elmer E. Ellsworth, American colonel (b. 1837)
• 1872 » Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and illustrator (b. 1794)
• 1879 » William Lloyd Garrison, American journalist and activist (b. 1805)
• 1881 » Samuel Palmer, English painter and illustrator (b. 1805)
• 1901 » Louis-Zéphirin Moreau, Canadian bishop (b. 1824)
• 1908 » Old Tom Morris, Scottish golfer and architect (b. 1821)
• 1915 » John Condon, Irish-English soldier (b. 1896)
• 1919 » Amado Nervo, Mexican poet, journalist, and educator (b. 1870)
• 1929 » Nikolai von Meck, Russian engineer (b. 1863)
• 1941 » Lancelot Holland, English admiral (b. 1887)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Hendrik
4. Cornelis
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Jacob
10. Adrianus
11. Jacobus
12. Arie
13. Dirk
14. Wilhelmus
15. Hendrikus
16. Gerardus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Hendrika
7. Elisabeth
8. Adriana
9. Catharina
10. Aaltje
11. Neeltje
12. Petronella
13. Jacoba
14. Grietje
15. Geertruida
16. Trijntje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• Regentes Emma (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1898 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from May 9, 1894 to July 27, 1897 the cabinet Roëll, with Jonkheer mr. J. Roëll (oud-liberaal) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 27, 1897 to August 1, 1901 the cabinet Pierson, with Mr. N.G. Pierson (unie-liberaal) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 5.1 million citizens.
• February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
• June 22 » British colonial officers Charles Walter Rand and Lt. Charles Egerton Ayerst are assassinated in Pune, Maharashtra, India by the Chapekar brothers and Mahadeo Vinayak Ranade, who are later caught and hanged.
• July 26 » Anglo-Afghan War: The Pashtun fakir Saidullah leads an army of more than 10,000 to begin a siege of the British garrison in the Malakand Agency of the North West Frontier Province of India.
• September 1 » The Tremont Street Subway in Boston opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit system in North America.
• September 12 » Tirah Campaign: In the Battle of Saragarhi, ten thousand Pashtun tribesmen suffer several hundred casualties while attacking 21 Sikh soldiers in British service.
• November 1 » The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol.

The temperature on May 24, 1897 was about 13.7 °C. The airpressure was 75 cm mercury. The atmospheric humidity was 82%.