Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/May 24
On May 24:
- 1626 - Peter Minuit bought Manhattan in exchange for trade goods valued at 60 guilders.
- 1738 - John Wesley symbolically established the Methodist Church.
- 1844 - Samuel F. B. Morse sent the first electrical telegram.
- 1895 - Oscar Wilde was convicted of "sodomy and gross indecency."
- 1941 - The German battleship DKM Bismarck sank the HMS Hood, killing all but three crewmen.