Thursday, May 24, 2018

History for May 24

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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
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Samuel I. Newhouse 1895, Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) 1941 - Musician, singer, songwriter (Traveling Wilburys), Gary Burghoff 1943 - Actor ("M*A*S*H")
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1689 - The English Parliament passed Act of Toleration, protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics were specifically excluded from exemption.
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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.
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1830 - The first passenger railroad service in the U.S. began service.
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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?"
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1883 - After 14 years of construction the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic.
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1935 - The Cincinnati Reds played the Philadelphia Phillies in the first major league baseball game at night. The switch for the floodlights was thrown by U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.
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1941 - The HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic. Only three people survived.
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1994 - The four men convicted of bombing the New York's World Trade Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
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