^B{^#!16!24 May^N! Feast day of St David of Scotland, St Vincent of Lerins, Saints Donatian and Rogation, and St Nicetas of Pereaslav.
^B{1153^B} Malcolm IV acceded to the Scottish throne. ^B{1530^B} A list of heretical books was drawn up in London, England; Tyndale's Bible was burned. ^B{1726^B} Voltaire landed in England on his liberation from the Bastille (he returned to France 1729). ^B{1726^B} The first Circulating Library was opened by Allan Ramsay in Edinburgh. ^B{1862^B} Westminster Bridge across the River Thames in London was opened. ^B{1941^B} The British battleship HMS ^I{Hood^I} was sunk by the ^I{Bismarck^I} off Greenland. ^B{1948^B} The USSR stopped road and rail traffic between Berlin and the West, forcing Western powers to organize airlifts.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}King Philip III of France, ^B{1245^B}; William Byrd, English composer, ^B{1543^B}; William Gilbert, English physician and early researcher into magnetism, ^B{1540^B}; Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary, ^B{1743^B}; Queen Victoria, ^B{1819^B}; Joseph Rowntree, social reformer and industrialist, ^B{1836^B}; Arthur Wing Pinero, English playwright, ^B{1855^B}; J C Smuts, South African soldier and politician, ^B{1870^B}; Bob Dylan, US singer and songwriter, ^B{1941^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer, ^B{1543^B}; Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English politician, ^B{1612^B}; Jonathan Wild, English criminal, hanged, ^B{1725^B}; John Dulles, US politician, ^B{1959^B}; 'Duke' Ellington, US jazz composer and musician, ^B{1974^B}; Hermione Gingold, English actress, ^B{1987^B}.
