Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 24
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May 24: Independence Day in Eritrea (1993), Sts. Cyril and Methodius Day in Bulgaria
- 1487 - Impostor Lambert Simnel was crowned in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin, Ireland as "King Edward VI".
- 1626 - Peter Minuit bought Manhattan in exchange for trade goods valued at 60 guilders.
- 1822 - Troops led by Antonio José de Sucre secured the independence of Quito from Spain.
- 1911 - The New York Public Library opened.
- 1941 - World War II: The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battlecruiser HMS Hood in the Battle of the Denmark Strait.