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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_24" title="May 24">May 24</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aldersgate_Day" title="Aldersgate Day">Aldersgate Day</a></b> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism">Methodism</a>)
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1667" title="1667">1667</a> – Led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_XIV" title="Louis XIV">King Louis XIV</a>, the French army invaded the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Netherlands" title="Spanish Netherlands">Spanish Netherlands</a>, beginning the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_of_Devolution" title="War of Devolution">War of Devolution</a></b>.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1883" title="1883">1883</a> – New York City's <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge" title="Brooklyn Bridge">Brooklyn Bridge</a></b> opened as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_longest_suspension_bridge_spans" title="List of longest suspension bridge spans">longest suspension bridge in the world</a> at the time.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1913" title="1913">1913</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Victoria_Louise_of_Prussia" title="Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia">Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia</a></b> married <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Augustus,_Duke_of_Brunswick" title="Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick">Prince Ernest Augustus of Hanover</a>; the occasion was one of the last great social events of European royalty before World War I began.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986" title="1986">1986</a> – A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stationary_front" title="Stationary front">stationary front</a> began over the central Caribbean Sea, <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_Jamaica_floods" title="1986 Jamaica floods">leading to severe floods</a></b> that over two weeks killed dozens of people in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti and Jamaica.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991" title="1991">1991</a> – The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Defense_Forces" title="Israel Defense Forces">Israel Defense Forces</a> began <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Solomon" title="Operation Solomon">Operation Solomon</a></b>, a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covert_operation" title="Covert operation">covert operation</a> to bring thousands of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta_Israel" title="Beta Israel">Ethiopian Jews</a> to Israel.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathinka_Buchwieser" title="Cathinka Buchwieser">Cathinka Buchwieser</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1789); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Sandham" title="Henry Sandham">Henry Sandham</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1842); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanny_Searls" title="Fanny Searls">Fanny Searls</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1939)</p>
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