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• ... that the influence of the Gulf Stream on the climate of Northern Ireland gives the landscape of Northern Ireland (pictured) its green colour?
• ... that actor Buck Taylor, though he still appears in mostly Western films, is also a prolific artist of the American West?
• ... that Troubled Island is an opera about the Haitian revolution leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines, who crowned himself emperor after independence was declared?
• ... that the Section of Painting and Sculpture, a New Deal federal art program operated by the United States Department of the Treasury, commissioned more than 1300 murals and 300 sculptures, most of which were placed in U.S. post offices?
• ... that the famine of 1873–74 in Bihar, India was less severe than had originally been anticipated, and 100,000 tons of grain was left unused at the end of the relief efforts?
• ... that the Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, were plaintiffs in a lawsuit seeking the removal of the Mount Soledad cross?
• ... that the Frieze of Parnassus on the Albert Memorial was inspired by Hippolyte Delaroche's Hémicycle des Beaux Arts?
  

• Manchester United win the UEFA Champions League, defeating Chelsea in the final.
• Ma Ying-jeou (pictured) is sworn in as the President of the Republic of China (Taiwan).
• At least 40 people are killed as a wave of anti-foreign violence spreads across South Africa.
• Russia wins the 2008 World Championship in ice hockey, defeating Canada in the final.
• Leonel Fernández of the Dominican Liberation Party is re-elected President of the Dominican Republic.
• The Nigerian Red Cross reports that at least 100 people are dead after a pipeline explosion in Lagos.
• A series of bomb blasts in Jaipur, India, kills at least 63 people.
• An earthquake measuring 7.9 M_w strikes Sichuan, China, with more than 51,000 people confirmed dead.

May 24: Independence Day in Eritrea (1993); Aldersgate Day (Methodism); Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in Bulgaria and the Republic of Macedonia

• 1626 – Director-General of New Netherland Peter Minuit bought Manhattan from Native Americans in exchange for trade goods valued at 60 guilders.
• 1738 – At a Moravian Church meeting in Aldersgate Street, London, John Wesley (pictured) experienced a spiritual rebirth, leading him to launch the Methodist movement.
• 1822 – Ecuadorian War of Independence: Troops led by Antonio José de Sucre secured the independence of Quito from Spain at the Battle of Pichincha.
• 1883 – New York City's Brooklyn Bridge, at the time the longest suspension bridge in the world, was opened.
• 1988 – Section 28 of the United Kingdom Local Government Act of 1988, an amendment stating that a local authority cannot intentionally promote homosexuality, was enacted, generating so much controversy that it was eventually repealed fifteen years later.

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