History for May 24

History for May 24 - On-This-Day.com
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit 1686 - Physicist, engineer, he determined the temperature scale named after him, Queen Victoria (Britain) 1819, Tommy Chong 1938 - Comedian (Cheech and Chong) 


Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) 1941 - Musician, singer, songwriter (Traveling Wilburys), Gary Burghoff 1943 - Actor ("M*A*S*H"), Patti LaBelle (Patricia Louise Holte) 1944 - Singer


Kristin Scott Thomas 1960 - Actor ("Under the Cherry Moon") , Joe Dumars 1963, John C. Reilly 1965 - Actor 


1764 - Bostonian lawyer James Otis denounced "taxation without representation" and called for the colonies to unite in demonstrating their opposition to Britain’s new tax measures. 


1816 - Emamual Leutze was born in Germany. He was most famous for his paintings "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and "Columbus Before the Queen". 


1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse formally opened America's first telegraph line. The first message was sent from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD. The message was "What hath God wrought?" 


1883 - After 14 years of construction the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic. 


1941 - The HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic. Only three people survived. 


1976 - Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington. 


2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved permanent normal trade relations with China. China was not happy about some of the human rights conditions that had been attached by the U.S. lawmakers.