📜 This Day in History

May 24

• 1567The mentally ill King Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murdered five incarcerated nobles, including some members of the influential Sture family.
• 1798The Irish Rebellion of 1798 began, with battles beginning in County Kildare and fighting later spreading across the country.
• 1930English aviator Amy Johnson landed in Darwin, becoming the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
• 1963United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy met with African American author James Baldwin in an unsuccessful attempt to improve race relations.
• 1988Section 28 of the United Kingdom's Local Government Act of 1988, a controversial amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, was enacted.
• 2026A suicide bombing targeting a shuttle train in Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan, kills at least 47 people.

Born on this day

• 1819Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (died 1901)
• 1905Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1984)
• 1940Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1996)
• 1941Bob Dylan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, artist, writer, and producer; Nobel Prize laureate