May 24
1844 - Samuel Morse transmitted the first telegraph message, in which he asked, "What hath God wrought?"
1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic.
1899 - W. T. McCullough of Boston opened the first public garage. One could rent space for selling, storing and repairing vehicles.
1937 - In a set of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Social Security Act of 1935.
1941 - The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three of the 1,148 men on board.
1958 - The United Press and the International News Service merged to form United Press International (UPI).
1961 - A group of Freedom Riders was arrested after arriving at a bus terminal in Jackson, Mississippi, charged with breaching the peace for entering white-designated areas. (They ended up serving 60 days in jail.)
1962 - Astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7.
1974 - American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington died in New York at age 75.
1976 - The British and French supersonic Concordes made their first commercial flights from Europe to Washington, D.C.
1980 - Iran rejected a call by the World Court in The Hague to release the American hostages.
1994 - Four Islamic fundamentalists convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center in 1993 were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
2000 - Israeli troops pulled out of Lebanon after 18 years of occupation.
2001 - Vermont Sen. James Jeffords quit the Republican Party and became an independent, a move that shifted control of the U.S. Senate to the Democrats.
2011 - Oprah Winfrey taped the final episode of her long-running talk show.
2013 - British fighter jets intercepted a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777 carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan and diverted it to an isolated runway at London-Stansted Airport, where two British passengers who had allegedly threatened to destroy the plane were arrested.
2018 - After a Justice Department briefing, Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said there was no evidence to support claims that there was a government spy in President Donald Trump's campaign.
2018 - President Donald Trump signed into law a measure loosening restraints for banks imposed after the 2008 financial crisis.
2022 - An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers. The gunman, Salvador Ramos, a former student at the school, was also killed. It was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since the attack in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, almost a decade earlier.
2022 - An Iraqi man living in Ohio was arrested on a charge of plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush.
Birthdays
29 - Cayden Boyd (actor)
34 - Brianne Howey (actress)
35 - Billy Gilman (singer)
42 - Jerod Mixon (actor/rapper)
43 - Billy L. Sullivan (actor)
43 - Owen Benjamin (actor)
44 - Tracy McGrady (basketball player)
45 - Bryan Greenberg (actor)
49 - Dash Mihok (actor)
50 - Bartolo Colon (baseball player)
54 - Rich Robinson (musician)
54 - Carl Payne (actor)
56 - Eric Close (actor)
56 - Dana Ashbrook (actor)
58 - John C. Reilly (actor)
63 - Kristin Scott Thomas (actress)
63 - Cliff Parisi (actor)
68 - Rosanne Cash (singer)
70 - Alfred Molina (actor)
74 - Jim Broadbent (actor)
76 - Mike Reid (singer)
78 - Priscilla Presley (actress)
79 - Patti LaBelle (singer)
80 - Gary Burghoff (actor)
82 - Bob Dylan (singer)
85 - Tommy Chong (actor/comedian)
97 - Stanley Baxter (actor/comedian)
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Today in Sports History - May 24
1935 - The first Major League Baseball game to be played at night was held at Cincinnati's Crosley Field as the hometown Reds defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1.
1950 - "Sweetwater" (Nat) Clifton's contract was purchased by the New York Knicks. Sweetwater played for the Harlem Globetrotters.
1951 - Willie Mays made his Major League debut with the New York Giants.
1964 - In Lima, Peru, a riot and panic followed an unpopular ruling by a referee in a soccer game between Peru and Argentina. More than 300 people were killed and over 500 were injured.
1967 - An AFL franchise was awarded to the Cincinnati Bengals.
1980 - The New York Islanders defeat the Philadelphia Flyers to win the Stanley Cup.
1984 - The Detroit Tigers won a record 17th consecutive road game.
1986 - The Montreal Canadiens won their 23rd Stanley Cup championship after defeating the Calgary Flames.
1987 - Al Unser Sr. won his fourth Indianapolis 500.
1989 - Lee Gutterman (New York Yankees) set a record for pitching 30 and 2/3 innings before giving up his first run of the season.
1990 - The Edmonton Oilers won their fifth Stanley Cup in seven years after defeating the Boston Bruins.
1992 - In the closest finish in Indianapolis 500 history, Al Unser Jr. defeats Scott Goodyear by 0.043 seconds.
2003 - At the Colonial in Fort Worth, TX, Annika Sorentam missed the cut by four shots. Two days early she had become the first woman in 58 years to play in the PGA.
2018 - President Donald Trump granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing's first black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, more than 100 years after what many see as a racially-charged conviction for violating the Mann Act by traveling with his white girlfriend across state lines.
1844 - Samuel Morse transmitted the first telegraph message, in which he asked, "What hath God wrought?"
1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic.
1899 - W. T. McCullough of Boston opened the first public garage. One could rent space for selling, storing and repairing vehicles.
1937 - In a set of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Social Security Act of 1935.
1941 - The German battleship Bismarck sank the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three of the 1,148 men on board.
1958 - The United Press and the International News Service merged to form United Press International (UPI).
1961 - A group of Freedom Riders was arrested after arriving at a bus terminal in Jackson, Mississippi, charged with breaching the peace for entering white-designated areas. (They ended up serving 60 days in jail.)
1962 - Astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7.
1974 - American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington died in New York at age 75.
1976 - The British and French supersonic Concordes made their first commercial flights from Europe to Washington, D.C.
1980 - Iran rejected a call by the World Court in The Hague to release the American hostages.
1994 - Four Islamic fundamentalists convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center in 1993 were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
2000 - Israeli troops pulled out of Lebanon after 18 years of occupation.
2001 - Vermont Sen. James Jeffords quit the Republican Party and became an independent, a move that shifted control of the U.S. Senate to the Democrats.
2011 - Oprah Winfrey taped the final episode of her long-running talk show.
2013 - British fighter jets intercepted a Pakistan International Airlines Boeing 777 carrying more than 300 people from Pakistan and diverted it to an isolated runway at London-Stansted Airport, where two British passengers who had allegedly threatened to destroy the plane were arrested.
2018 - After a Justice Department briefing, Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said there was no evidence to support claims that there was a government spy in President Donald Trump's campaign.
2018 - President Donald Trump signed into law a measure loosening restraints for banks imposed after the 2008 financial crisis.
2022 - An 18-year-old gunman opened fire at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 children and two teachers. The gunman, Salvador Ramos, a former student at the school, was also killed. It was the deadliest shooting at a U.S. grade school since the attack in Sandy Hook, Connecticut, almost a decade earlier.
2022 - An Iraqi man living in Ohio was arrested on a charge of plotting to assassinate former President George W. Bush.
Birthdays
29 - Cayden Boyd (actor)
34 - Brianne Howey (actress)
35 - Billy Gilman (singer)
42 - Jerod Mixon (actor/rapper)
43 - Billy L. Sullivan (actor)
43 - Owen Benjamin (actor)
44 - Tracy McGrady (basketball player)
45 - Bryan Greenberg (actor)
49 - Dash Mihok (actor)
50 - Bartolo Colon (baseball player)
54 - Rich Robinson (musician)
54 - Carl Payne (actor)
56 - Eric Close (actor)
56 - Dana Ashbrook (actor)
58 - John C. Reilly (actor)
63 - Kristin Scott Thomas (actress)
63 - Cliff Parisi (actor)
68 - Rosanne Cash (singer)
70 - Alfred Molina (actor)
74 - Jim Broadbent (actor)
76 - Mike Reid (singer)
78 - Priscilla Presley (actress)
79 - Patti LaBelle (singer)
80 - Gary Burghoff (actor)
82 - Bob Dylan (singer)
85 - Tommy Chong (actor/comedian)
97 - Stanley Baxter (actor/comedian)
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Today in Sports History - May 24
1935 - The first Major League Baseball game to be played at night was held at Cincinnati's Crosley Field as the hometown Reds defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1.
1950 - "Sweetwater" (Nat) Clifton's contract was purchased by the New York Knicks. Sweetwater played for the Harlem Globetrotters.
1951 - Willie Mays made his Major League debut with the New York Giants.
1964 - In Lima, Peru, a riot and panic followed an unpopular ruling by a referee in a soccer game between Peru and Argentina. More than 300 people were killed and over 500 were injured.
1967 - An AFL franchise was awarded to the Cincinnati Bengals.
1980 - The New York Islanders defeat the Philadelphia Flyers to win the Stanley Cup.
1984 - The Detroit Tigers won a record 17th consecutive road game.
1986 - The Montreal Canadiens won their 23rd Stanley Cup championship after defeating the Calgary Flames.
1987 - Al Unser Sr. won his fourth Indianapolis 500.
1989 - Lee Gutterman (New York Yankees) set a record for pitching 30 and 2/3 innings before giving up his first run of the season.
1990 - The Edmonton Oilers won their fifth Stanley Cup in seven years after defeating the Boston Bruins.
1992 - In the closest finish in Indianapolis 500 history, Al Unser Jr. defeats Scott Goodyear by 0.043 seconds.
2003 - At the Colonial in Fort Worth, TX, Annika Sorentam missed the cut by four shots. Two days early she had become the first woman in 58 years to play in the PGA.
2018 - President Donald Trump granted a rare posthumous pardon to boxing's first black heavyweight champion, Jack Johnson, more than 100 years after what many see as a racially-charged conviction for violating the Mann Act by traveling with his white girlfriend across state lines.
