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, Emanuel Leutze 1816, Queen Victoria (Britain) 1819 


Samuel I. Newhouse 1895, Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) 1941 - Musician, singer, songwriter (Traveling Wilburys), Gary Burghoff 1943 - Actor ("M*A*S*H")



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. 


1830 - The first passenger railroad service in the U.S. began service. 


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?" 


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


1961 - The Freedom Riders were arrested in Jackson, Mississippi. 


1983 - The Brooklyn Bridge's 100th birthday was celebrated. 


1994 - The four men convicted of bombing the New York's World Trade Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison. 


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.