May 24th Anniversaries

Santo Domingo.- The events of May 24th are marked by important historical events and international celebrations that left their mark on world history. Below are the main events of May 24th:

• International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament.
• International Marjor Day.
• International Day of Actinic Keratosis.
• Pansexual Visibility Day.

Saint’s Day: Saints Mary Help of Christians and Susan. Saint Vincent.

National: May 24th Anniversaries

• 1890: Haiti demands the payment of customs duties on Dominican products, violating an agreement between both nations.
• 1962: President Rafael F. Bonnelly travels to Puerto Rico with Antonio Imbert Barreras and meets with Luis Muñoz Marín.
• 1965: President Francisco Caamaño Deñó directs a radio message for the first month of the overthrow of the Triumvirate.
• 1976: Octavio Antonio Beras Rojas is invested as the first Dominican cardinal.
• 1993: UNDP warns about the risk of depending on tourism and free zones as sources of foreign currency.
• 2004: Floods in Jimaní cause dozens of deaths and injuries due to the overflowing of the Blanco River.
• 2005: National District Attorney’s Office requests trial against officials involved in the usufruct of stolen vehicles.
• 2008: Ramón Alburquerque proposes creating an Energy Secretariat and an energy rationalization plan.
• 2015: Héctor García Valenzuela becomes the first Dominican elected councilor in Albacete, Spain.
• 2018: Spanish judge accuses Ángel Rondón of paying bribes for contracts with AAA Dominicana.
• 2018: Jean Alain Rodríguez clarifies statements about Odebrecht’s bribes to Dominican rulers.
• 2020: Edith Febles’ investigation reveals that five companies win the main tenders of the COE since 2016.
• 2021: President Luis Abinader announces a new curfew due to the high rate of COVID-19 infections.
• 2022: Mirna Ortiz confirms that former President Danilo Medina is being investigated, without sufficient elements to charge him.

International: May 24th Anniversaries

• 1543: Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, dies.
• 1571: Crimean Tatars burn Moscow.
• 1626: Peter Minuit buys Manhattan (also erroneously repeated in 1826).
• 1689: Parliament of the United Kingdom approves the Toleration Act.
• 1725: Jonathan Wild is executed in London for leading a criminal network from his position.
• 1778: France declares war on the British Empire.
• 1806: Napoleon appoints his brother Louis Bonaparte king of Holland.
• 1819: The ship Savannah sets sail as the first steamship to cross the Atlantic.
• 1822: Independence of Quito (Ecuador) in the battle of Pichincha.
• 1844: Samuel Morse sends the first telegraphic message.
• 1846: USA captures Monterrey during the intervention in Mexico.
• 1958: Batista launches “Operation Summer” against Fidel Castro’s forces.
• 1964: Tragedy in Lima during Peru-Argentina match: 318 dead.
• 1972: Nixon and the USSR sign a joint space agreement.
• 1993: Drug traffickers kill Cardinal Posadas Ocampo in Mexico.
• 2008: FARC announces the death of its leader Manuel Marulanda Vélez.
• 2013: Alfonso Portillo is extradited to the USA for money laundering.
• 2013: Rafael Correa swears in for a new presidential term in Ecuador.
• 2017: Lenín Moreno assumes the presidency of Ecuador.
• 2018: Maduro assumes a new term in Venezuela.
• 2018: Trump cancels summit with Kim Jong Un.
• 2018: Spain’s Popular Party is convicted of corruption.
• 2020: China accuses the US of bringing relations to the brink of a new cold war.
• 2020: World Bank warns of global economic crisis due to COVID-19.
• 2021: Guillermo Lasso assumes the presidency of Ecuador.
• 2021: Rocco Morabito, Italian drug trafficker, is captured in Brazil.
• 2022: Shooting in Uvalde (Texas) leaves 16 dead.
• 2022: Russia completes three months of war in Ukraine without conclusive results.

Births: May 24th Anniversaries

• 1853: Juan de Dios Aldea Fonseca, Chilean sailor, one of the heroes of the Naval Combat of Iquique and maximum hero of the Chilean Marine Corps.
• 1878: José Dolores Alfonseca, Dominican doctor, politician and vice president.
• 1905: Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian writer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 1965.
• 1941: Bob Dylan, American musician, poet and composer, Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.
• 1959: Prithvirajsing Roopun, Mauritian lawyer and politician, President of Mauritius since 2019.

Deaths: May 24th Anniversaries

• 1543: Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer and mathematician.
• 1981: Jaime Roldós Aguilera, President of Ecuador, dies in a plane crash.
• 1993: Juan José Posadas Ocampo, Mexican archbishop, assassinated at the airport.
• 2010: Alexander Belostenny, basketball player for the Lithuanian National Team and the Soviet Union,
• 2017: Jacinto Carlos Gimbernard Pellerano, Dominican musician and writer.