05-23-2010, 07:51 PM
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May 24th
1819 ~ Birthday of Queen Victoria.
1844 ~ The first telegram was sent by Samuel Morse, from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".
1883 ~ The Brooklyn Bridge was opened.
1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three crewmen.
1941 ~ Death of Lancelot Holland, British admiral, died in sinking of the HMS Hood.
1941 ~ Birthday of Bob Dylan, Singer and Songwriter.
1969 ~ Death of Willy Ley, rocket scientist.
1974 ~ Death of Duke Ellington, American composer and musician.
1976 ~ BOAC and Air France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington.
2001 ~ 23 people were killed and hundreds injured at a wedding party in Jerusalem when the floor collapsed.
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