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• Year 919 — The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in...

• Year 1218 — The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.

• Year 1276 — Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.

• Year 1856 — John Brown and his men kill five slavery supporters at Pottawatomie Creek, Kansas.

• Year 1861 — American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.

Upcoming Public Holidays

• Today, Sunday, May 24

• Buddha's Birthday

  Holiday in: South Korea

• Day of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture

  Holiday in: Bulgaria

• Pentecost

  Holiday in: Poland

• Saints Cyril and Methodius Day

  Holiday in: North Macedonia

• Solemnity of Pentecost

  Holiday in: Vatican City

• Sunday; Whit Sunday

  Holiday in: Sweden

• The Battle of Pichincha

  Holiday in: Ecuador

• The Buddha's Birthday

  Holiday in: Hong Kong, Macao

• Unity Day (observed)

  Holiday in: Yemen

• Whit Sunday

  Holiday in: Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Madagascar, Netherlands, Norway, Slovenia, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Åland Islands
• Tomorrow, Monday, May 25

• Africa Day

  Holiday in: Guinea, Mauritania, Namibia, Zimbabwe

• Africa Freedom Day

  Holiday in: Zambia

• Africa/Heroes Day

  Holiday in: Lesotho

• African Liberation Day

  Holiday in: Equatorial Guinea

• Alternative holiday for Buddha's Birthday

  Holiday in: South Korea

• Day of Slavonic Alphabet, Bulgarian Enlightenment and Culture (observed)

  Holiday in: Bulgaria

• Independence Day

  Holiday in: Jordan

• JAGS McCartney Day

  Holiday in: Turks and Caicos Islands

• May Revolution Day

  Holiday in: Argentina

• Memorial Day

  Holiday in: American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, United States, United States Minor Outlying Islands