What happend on 24th May

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25.05
1949

The Soviet Union ends the 11-month Berlin Blockade.

1943

Holocaust: Josef Mengele becomes chief medical officer in Auschwitz concentration camp.

1941

World War II: In the North Atlantic, the German Battleship Bismarck sinks the HMS Hood killing all but three crewmen on what was the pride of the Royal Navy.

1940

Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight.

1930

Amy Johnson lands in Darwin, Northern Territory, becoming the first woman to fly from England to Australia (she left on May 5 for the 11,000 mile flight).

1929

The Cocoanuts, the first film to star the Marx Brothers, opens.

1921

The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens.

1915

World War I: Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary.

1911

The New York Public Library opened.

1900

Boer War: The United Kingdom annexes the Orange Free State.