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Events on May 24

• 1370 The Treaty of Stralsund, negotiated by the Danish drost Henning Podebusk and the Hanseatic mayors Jakob Pleskow and Bertram Wulflam between the Cologne Confederation and King Valdemar IV of Denmark, ends the Second War of Valdemar and marks the high point of Hanseatic power in the Baltic region.
• 1791 The Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, the world's first mixed choir, is founded. On this day, its director Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, Frederick the Great's court harpsichordist, begins keeping a rehearsal diary for the first time. At this point, the choir has 28 members.
• 1844 Samuel F. B. Morse sends the first telegram in Morse code from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore. The message reads: What hath God wrought? (What has God wrought?).
• 1903 At the Hotel Silber in Stuttgart, the German Motorcyclists' Association (DMV) is founded, the predecessor of the General German Automobile Club (ADAC).
• 1930 The Düsseldorf police succeed in arresting the serial killer Peter Kürten, later known as the “Vampire of Düsseldorf”, and thereby solve a months-long series of murders of a sexual nature in the area.
• 1949 In West Germany, following the promulgation on the previous day, the Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany is in force in the western zone known as the Trizone, but not in the Protectorate of Saarland at the time.
• 1956 In Lugano, the inaugural Eurovision Song Contest is held under the title Gran Premio Eurovisione della Canzone Europea. The vote is held in secret, and only the winning song “Refrain” by the Swiss singer Lys Assia is announced.
• 1962 As part of the Mercury program, NASA launches the Mercury-Atlas 7 mission. Scott Carpenter, who is aboard the spacecraft, thereby becomes the second American to orbit Earth.
• 1995 At the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, Ajax Amsterdam defeats AC Milan with a goal by Patrick Kluivert and thus wins the Champions League final
• 2005 The former SPD chairman Oskar Lafontaine announces his departure from the SPD and declares himself willing to support the Alternative for Labour and Social Justice (WASG), which shortly thereafter forms an electoral alliance with the PDS.
• 2009 Michael Haneke's feature film The White Ribbon – A German Children's Story wins the Palme d'Or at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival.
• 2022 In London, the largest part of the Crossrail project is opened with the Paddington–Abbey Wood section. On the new route, which crosses the city from west to east mostly underground, the Elizabeth Line begins service.

Born on May 24

• 1855 Franz Carl Weber, Swiss entrepreneur
• 1899 Suzanne Lenglen, French tennis player
• 1901 Arvid Harnack, German jurist, economist and resistance fighter
• 1910 August Landmesser, German worker and victim of National Socialism
• 1931 Michael Lonsdale, French actor
• 1940 Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet, Nobel laureate
• 1941 Bob Dylan, American folk and rock musician, Nobel laureate
• 1960 Kristin Scott Thomas, British actress
• 1961 Friedrich Küppersbusch, German journalist and television producer
• 1982 Kim Frank, German singer and actor

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „24. Mai“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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