WHAT ALL HAPPENED ON 24. MAY 1940
Look what happened on 24. May 1940

Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight. (24. May 1940)

Acting on the orders of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, NKVD agent Iosif Grigulevich orchestrates an unsuccessful assassination attempt on exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky in Coyoacán, Mexico. (24. May 1940)

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