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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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May 24
:
Aldersgate Day
(
Methodism
)
Eric XIV of Sweden
1567
– The mentally ill King
Eric XIV of Sweden
(pictured)
and his guards
murdered five incarcerated nobles
, including some members of the influential
Sture
family.
1689
– The
Act of Toleration
became law, granting
freedom of worship
to English
nonconformists
under certain circumstances, but deliberately excluding Catholics.
1798
– The
Irish Rebellion of 1798
began, with battles beginning in
County Kildare
and fighting later spreading across the country.
1963
– United States Attorney General
Robert F. Kennedy
met with
African American author
James Baldwin
in an unsuccessful attempt to improve race relations.
2014
– A gunman involved in
Islamic extremism
opened fire
at the
Jewish Museum of Belgium
in Brussels, killing four people.
Robert Hues
(
d.
1632)
Philip Pearlstein
(
b.
1924)
Magnus Manske
(
b.
1974)
Stormé DeLarverie
(
d.
2014)
More anniversaries:
May 23
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