May 24 1218 The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
May 24 1667 The French Royal Army crosses the border into the Spanish Netherlands, starting the War of Devolution opposing France to the Spanish Empire and the Triple Alliance
May 24 1822 Battle of Pichincha: Antonio José de Sucre secures the independence of the Presidency of Quito.
May 24 1861 American Civil War: Union troops occupy Alexandria, Virginia.
May 24 1900 Second Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.
May 24 1915 World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary, joining the conflict on the side of the Allies.
May 24 1941 World War II: In the Battle of the Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks then-pride of the Royal Navy, HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.
May 24 1948 Arab–Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later.
May 24 1967 Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel.
May 24 1999 The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands indicts Slobodan Milošević and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.
May 24 2000 Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
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1897 21 Sikh soldiers of the Army of British India where killed at Saragarhi hill fort https://www.army.mod.uk/news-and-events/news/2020...
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283 Battle of the Gulf of Naples : Roger of Lauria , admiral to King Peter III of Aragon , captures Charles of Salerno . 1288 Battle... -
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July 19 711 Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roder...
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