MAY 24: EVENTS: *1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message What hath God wrought (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland, to inaugurate the first telegraph line. *1895 – Henry Irving becomes the first person from the theatre to be knighted. *1961 – Cyprus joins the Council of Europe. *1962 – Project Mercury: American astronaut Scott Carpenter orbits the Earth three times in the Aurora 7 space capsule. *1993 – Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia. *2001 – Mountain climbing: Temba Tsheri, a 16-year-old Sherpa, becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest. *2002 – Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty. BIRTHDAYS: *1819 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom *1905 – Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian author, Nobel Prize laureate *1979 – Tracy McGrady, American basketball player DEATH ANNIVERSARIES: *1543 – Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish mathematician and astronomer *1981-Si. Balasubramania Adithan, Tamil lawyer, politician, minister and founder of the Tamil daily newspaper Dina Thanthi *1995 – Harold Wilson, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom *2000 – Majrooh Sultanpuri, Indian poet and songwriter *2010 – Virendra Bhatia, Indian politician IMPORTANT DAYS: *Bermuda Day (Bermuda) *Commonwealth Day (Belize) *Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia in 1993.
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