May 24

1218 – The armies of King Andrew II of Hungary and Duke Leopold VI of Austria, leave Acre in the attempt to take Cairo Egypt, beginning the Fifth Crusade

1607 – Under the leadership of Captain Christopher Newport, the first 100 English settlers arrive to established Jamestown settlement at the mouth of the James River on the Virginia coast, the first permanent English colony in America.

1626 – Peter Minuit buys ‘the Island of Manhattes’ – Manhattan NY –  from the Canarsee Indians of the Lenape Tribe in exchange for trade goods worth 60 guilders, which currently equals about $950.

1738 – John Wesley starts his own evangelical ministry in London, which people called Methodism for “the methodical way in which they carried out their Christian faith”.

1775 – John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress at Philadelphia.

1813 – Leading the invasion of Venezuela, Simón Bolívar enters Mérida in the northwest of the country and is proclaimed El Libertador

1844 – Samuel Morse sends the first Morse Code message “What hath God wrought”, a biblical quotation from Numbers 23:23, from Washington D.C. to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, beginning commercial telegraph service between  the two cities.

1856 – In response to the sack of Lawrence Kansas, John Brown and his followers raid Pottawatomie Creek Kansas, killing 5 men.

1883 – The Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is completed and opens to traffic.

1935 – The first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2–1 at Crosley Field.

1940 – Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single rotor helicopter flight.

1941 – During World War II, the German battleship Bismarck sinks the Royal Navy battlecruiser HMS Hood, in the Denmark Straight, with the loss of 1415 of 1418 crewmen.

1948 – During the Arab–Israeli War, Egypt attacks and occupies the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai.

1958 – The United Press and the International News Service merge to form the United Press International.

1962 – During Project Mercury, astronaut Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral and orbits the Earth 3 times before splashing down northeast of Puerto Rico.

1994 – 4 of the 6 moslem terrorists who were involved in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York, convicted in March of the bombing, are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.

2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Strategic Offensive Reductions (SORT) Treaty, agreeing to limit each nation’s arsenal. of nuclear weapons.

2022 – A mass shooting occurs at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, resulting in the deaths of 21 people, including 19 children, while over 300 law enforcement officers wait in fear for over an hour, before members of the U.S. Border Patrol arrive, charge the shooter and kill him.