January 31 » Czechoslav Trade Union Association is founded in Prague.
February 28 » Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, is deposed by a French military force.
April 30 » J. J. Thomson of the Cavendish Laboratory announces his discovery of the electron as a subatomic particle, over 1,800 times smaller than a proton (in the atomic nucleus), at a lecture at the Royal Institution in London.
May 26 » The original manuscript of William Bradford's history, "Of Plymouth Plantation" is returned to the Governor of Massachusetts by the Bishop of London after being taken during the American Revolutionary War.
September 10 » Lattimer massacre: A sheriff's posse kills 19 unarmed striking immigrant miners in Lattimer, Pennsylvania, United States.
December 30 » The British Colony of Natal annexes Zululand.
Day of marriage May 24, 1924
The temperature on May 24, 1924 was between 9.2 °C and 17.1 °C and averaged 12.8 °C. There was 1.9 mm of rain. There was 3.8 hours of sunshine (24%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest. Source: KNMI
In The Netherlands , there was from September 19, 1922 to August 4, 1925 the cabinet Ruys de Beerenbrouck II, with Jonkheer mr. Ch.J.M. Ruys de Beerenbrouck (RKSP) as prime minister.
February 5 » The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal.
June 10 » Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
July 24 » Themistoklis Sofoulis becomes Prime Minister of Greece.
October 7 » Andreas Michalakopoulos becomes prime minister of Greece for a short period of time.
December 19 » German serial killer Fritz Haarmann is sentenced to death for a series of murders.
December 19 » The last Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost is sold in London, England.
Day of death May 27, 1955
The temperature on May 27, 1955 was between 7.8 °C and 11.9 °C and averaged 9.9 °C. There was 3.8 mm of rain during 4.8 hours. The heavily clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the northeast. Source: KNMI
February 13 » Israel obtains four of the seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
July 9 » The Russell–Einstein Manifesto calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare.
July 27 » The Austrian State Treaty restores Austrian sovereignty.
September 20 » The Treaty on Relations between the USSR and the GDR is signed.
November 19 » National Review publishes its first issue.
December 1 » American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
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