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24 May

🇮🇳 In India

1896 Kartar Singh Sarabha, Indian revolutionary, was born in Ludhiana. He was 15-years old when he became a member of Ghadar Party; he then became a leading luminary member and started fighting for the Indian independence movement.

1954 Bachendri Pal, Indian mountaineer, who in 1984 became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, was born. She was awarded the third highest civilian award Padma Bhushan by Government of India in 2019.

🌎 Elsewhere

1830 Sarah Josepha Hale of New Hampshire, United States, published a collection of poems Poems for Our Children, that included "Mary Had a Little Lamb".

1844 Samuel Morse transmitted the first telegraph message, in which he asked, "What hath God wrought?"

1905 Mikhail Sholokhov, Russian novelist, author of And Quiet Flows the Don, was born. He won a Nobel Prize in 1965.

1930 Amy Johnson became the first woman aviator to fly solo from England to Australia.

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