Patrick Francis Healy becomes the first black president of a predominantly white university in the United States.

Patrick Francis Healy was an American Catholic priest and Jesuit who was an influential president of Georgetown University, becoming known as its "second founder". The university's flagship building, Healy Hall, bears his name. Though he considered himself and was widely accepted as White, Healy was posthumously recognized as the first Black American to earn a PhD, as well as the first to enter the Jesuit order and to become the president of a predominantly White university.

May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 221 days remain until the end of the year.