Also on May 24
🏛️ Public Holidays
Also observed in: Pentecost (AT,DE,DK,FI,HU,NL,NO,PL,SE) · Buddha's Birthday (KR) · Eerste Pinksterdag (NL) · Første pinsedag (NO) · Helluntaipäivä (FI) · Pingstdagen; Söndag (SE) · Pinksteren (BE) · Pinsedag (DK) · Pünkösd (HU) · Zielone Świątki (PL) and 2 more
✡️ Religious Observances
- Christian: Pentecost major
🕰️ On This Day in History
- 2014 — A 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurs in the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey, injuring 324 people. ↗
- 2014 — At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium. ↗
- 2002 — Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty. ↗
- 2000 — Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. ↗
- 1999 — The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for... ↗
🎂 Notable Births
- 1991 — Aled Davies, Welsh discus thrower
- 1991 — Cody Eakin, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1990 — Mattias Ekholm, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1989 — Andrew Jordan, English race car driver
- 1988 — Artem Anisimov, Russian ice hockey player
🏀 Sports on this Date
- WNBA: Los Angeles Sparks @ Las Vegas Aces — 00:00 Scheduled
- MLS: Toronto FC @ Chicago Fire FC — 00:30 Scheduled
- MLS: New York City FC @ Nashville SC — 00:30 Scheduled
- MLS: Red Bull New York @ Sporting Kansas City — 00:30 Scheduled
- MLS: FC Dallas @ Colorado Rapids — 01:30 Scheduled
- MLS: San Jose Earthquakes @ Portland Timbers — 01:30 Scheduled