{"id":21202,"date":"2020-05-24T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-05-24T06:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=21202"},"modified":"2020-05-22T15:43:48","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T10:13:48","slug":"history-of-24-may-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-24-may-2\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 24 May"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>History of 24 May<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong> &#8211; The Edmonton Oilers won their fifth National Hockey League (NHL) Stanley Cup.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> &#8211; Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesus Posada Ocampo and six other people were killed at the Guadalajara, Mexico, airport in a shootout that involved drug gangs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1993<\/strong> &#8211; The Ethiopian province of Eritrea declared itself an independent nation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> &#8211; The four men convicted of bombing the New York&#8217;s World Trade Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong> &#8211; 39 miners were killed in an underground gas explosion in Ukraine.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; Five people were killed and two others wounded when two gunmen entered a Wendy&#8217;s restaurant in Flushing, Queens, <a href=\"https:\/\/on-this-day.com\/us\/ny\">New York<\/a>. The gunmen tied up the victims in the basement and then shot them.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; The U.S. House of Representatives approved permanent normal trade relations with China. China was not happy about some of the human rights conditions that had been attached by the U.S. lawmakers.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2000<\/strong> &#8211; A Democratic Party event for Al Gore in Washington brought in $26.5 million. The amount set a new record, which had just been set the previous month by Republicans for Texas Gov. George W. Bush.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2001<\/strong> &#8211; Temba Tsheri, 15, became the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2011<\/strong> &#8211; NASA announced the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) spacecraft. It is intended to facilitate exploration of the Moon, asteroids, and Mars.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong> \u2013 A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2014<\/strong> \u2013 At least three people are killed in a\u00a0shooting\u00a0at Brussels&#8217;\u00a0Jewish Museum of Belgium.<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Nineteen students died in a\u00a0fire\u00a0in\u00a0Surat\u00a0(India).<\/li>\n<li><strong>2019<\/strong> \u2013 Under pressure over her handling of\u00a0Brexit, British Prime Minister\u00a0Theresa May\u00a0announces her resignation as Leader of the Conservative Party, effective as of June 7.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Celebrating Birthday Today<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>1981<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Andy Lee, Australian comedian, actor, and screenwriter<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Issah Gabriel Ahmed, Ghanaian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1982<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Rian Wallace, American football player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Cust\u00f3dio Castro, Portuguese footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Pedram Javaheri, Iranian-American meteorologist and journalist<\/li>\n<li><strong>1983<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Woo Seung-yeon, South Korean model and actress (d. 2009)<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sarah Hagan, American actress<\/li>\n<li><strong>1984<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Dmitri Kruglov, Estonian footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1985<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tim Bridgman, English race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mark Ballas, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, dancer, and actor<\/li>\n<li><strong>1986<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Giannis Kontoes, Greek footballer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1987<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Guillaume Latendresse, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Artem Anisimov, Russian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monica_Lin_Brown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Monica Lin Brown<\/a>, American sergeant<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Billy Gilman, American musician<\/li>\n<li><strong>1988<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Lucian Wintrich, American political artist and White House correspondent<\/li>\n<li><strong>1989<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Andrew Jordan, English race car driver<\/li>\n<li><strong>1990<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Mattias Ekholm, Swedish ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower<\/li>\n<li><strong>1991<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Cody Eakin, Canadian ice hockey player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Emily Nicholl, Scottish netball player<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Daiya Seto, Japanese swimmer<\/li>\n<li><strong>1994<\/strong> \u2013\u00a0Emily Temple Wood, American 2016\u00a0Wikipedian of the Year\u00a0award<\/li>\n<li><strong>1999<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Tarjei Sandvik Moe, Norwegian actor<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>History of 24 May 1990 &#8211; The Edmonton Oilers won their fifth National Hockey League (NHL) Stanley Cup. 1993 &#8211; Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesus Posada Ocampo and six other people were killed at the Guadalajara, Mexico, airport in a shootout that involved drug gangs. 1993 &#8211; The Ethiopian province of Eritrea declared itself an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1294,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[82],"tags":[83,1252,498],"class_list":{"0":"post-21202","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-history","8":"tag-history","9":"tag-history-of-24-may","10":"tag-todays-history"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/today-history-img.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pab1DJ-5vY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21202"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21253,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21202\/revisions\/21253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}