Events on May 24, 2011
Anti-Saloon League FoundedBaseball First Played Under Lights
Belize: Commonwealth Day
Brooklyn Bridge Opened
Brother's Day
Bulgaria: Culture Day
Ecuador: Battle of Pichincha
England: Rhs Chelsea Flower Show
Eritrea: Independence Day
Hug Your Cat Day
Leutze, Emanuel (Birth Date)
Morse Opens First US Telegraph Line
Naia Men's Golf National Championships
National Geographic Bee: National Finals
Newhouse, Samuel I. (Birth Date)
Palmer, Lilli (Birth Date)
Pga Seniors' Championship
Space Milestone: Aurora 7 Mercury Space Capsule (US)
Birthdays on May 24, 2011
DaMarcus Beasley, 29, soccer player, born Fort Wayne, IN, May 24, 1982.Jim Broadbent, 62, actor (Moulin Rouge, Topsy-Turvy, Oscar for Iris), born Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England, May 24, 1949.
Gary Burghoff, 68, actor (Emmy for “M*A*S*H”), born Bristol, CT, May 24, 1943.
Tommy Chong, 73, actor (Up in Smoke, The Corsican Brothers), born Edmonton, AB, Canada, May 24, 1938.
Joe Dumars III, 48, former basketball player, born Shreveport, LA, May 24, 1963.
Bob Dylan, 70, composer, singer, born Robert Zimmerman at Duluth, MN, May 24, 1941.
Alyson Hannigan, 37, actress (“How I Met Your Mother,” “Buffy the Vampire Slayer,” American Pie), born Washington, DC, May 24, 1974.
Patti LaBelle, 67, singer (“Since I Don’t Have You”), born Patricia Louise Holte at Philadelphia, PA, May 24, 1944.
Tracy McGrady, 32, basketball player, born Bartow, FL, May 24, 1979.
Alfred Molina, 58, actor (An Education, Frida, Chocolat), born London, England, May 24, 1953.
Frank Oz, 67, director, puppeteer, born Hereford, England, May 24, 1944.
Priscilla Beaulieu Presley, 66, actress (“Dallas,” Naked Gun movies), born Brooklyn, NY, May 24, 1945.
Kristin Scott Thomas, 51, actress (Gosford Park, The English Patient, The Horse Whisperer), born Cornwall, England, May 24, 1960.
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