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, first opened to traffic.
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 1,418 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, 75, died in New York.
1976 - The British and French Concordes made their first commercial flights.
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 withdrew from Lebanon after 18 consecutive years of occupation.
2001 - Vermont Sen. James Jeffords quit the Republican Party and became an Independent, effectively handing over control of the Senate to Democrats.
2011 - Oprah Winfrey taped the final episode of her long-running talk show.
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.
2023 - Tina Turner died at age 83. She teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping “What’s Love Got to Do With It.”
Birthdays
26 - Daisy Edgar-Jones (actress)
30 - Cayden Boyd (actor)
35 - Brianne Howey (actress)
36 - Billy Gilman (singer)
44 - Billy L. Sullivan (actor)
44 - Owen Benjamin (actor)
46 - Bryan Greenberg (actor)
51 - Bartolo Colon (baseball player)
55 - Carl Payne (actor)
57 - Eric Close (actor)
57 - Dana Ashbrook (actress)
59 - John C. Reilly (actor)
64 - Kristin Scott Thomas (actress)
64 - Cliff Parisi (actor)
69 - Rosanne Cash (singer)
71 - Alfred Molina (actor)
75 - Jim Broadbent (actor)
79 - Priscilla Presley (actress)
80 - Patti LaBelle (singer)
81 - Gary Burghoff (actor)
83 - Bob Dylan (singer)
86 - Tommy Chong (actor/comedian)
98 - Stanley Baxter (actor/comedian)
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Today in Sports History - May 24
1935 - The first night game in Major League Baseball took place at Cincinnati's Crosley Field as the hometown Reds defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1.
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 - The Cincinnati Bengals were awarded an AFL franchise.
1980 - The New York Islanders defeat the Philadelphia Flyers to win the Stanley Cup.
1986 - The Montreal Canadiens won their record 23rd Stanley Cup championship after defeating the Calgary Flames.
1987 - Al Unser Sr. won his fourth career 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 after defeating the Boston Bruins.
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 posthumously pardons boxer Jack Johnson for a racially-oriented criminal conviction of transporting a white woman across state lines nearly a century earlier.
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, first opened to traffic.
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 1,418 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, 75, died in New York.
1976 - The British and French Concordes made their first commercial flights.
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 withdrew from Lebanon after 18 consecutive years of occupation.
2001 - Vermont Sen. James Jeffords quit the Republican Party and became an Independent, effectively handing over control of the Senate to Democrats.
2011 - Oprah Winfrey taped the final episode of her long-running talk show.
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.
2023 - Tina Turner died at age 83. She teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping “What’s Love Got to Do With It.”
Birthdays
26 - Daisy Edgar-Jones (actress)
30 - Cayden Boyd (actor)
35 - Brianne Howey (actress)
36 - Billy Gilman (singer)
44 - Billy L. Sullivan (actor)
44 - Owen Benjamin (actor)
46 - Bryan Greenberg (actor)
51 - Bartolo Colon (baseball player)
55 - Carl Payne (actor)
57 - Eric Close (actor)
57 - Dana Ashbrook (actress)
59 - John C. Reilly (actor)
64 - Kristin Scott Thomas (actress)
64 - Cliff Parisi (actor)
69 - Rosanne Cash (singer)
71 - Alfred Molina (actor)
75 - Jim Broadbent (actor)
79 - Priscilla Presley (actress)
80 - Patti LaBelle (singer)
81 - Gary Burghoff (actor)
83 - Bob Dylan (singer)
86 - Tommy Chong (actor/comedian)
98 - Stanley Baxter (actor/comedian)
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Today in Sports History - May 24
1935 - The first night game in Major League Baseball took place at Cincinnati's Crosley Field as the hometown Reds defeated the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1.
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 - The Cincinnati Bengals were awarded an AFL franchise.
1980 - The New York Islanders defeat the Philadelphia Flyers to win the Stanley Cup.
1986 - The Montreal Canadiens won their record 23rd Stanley Cup championship after defeating the Calgary Flames.
1987 - Al Unser Sr. won his fourth career 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 after defeating the Boston Bruins.
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 posthumously pardons boxer Jack Johnson for a racially-oriented criminal conviction of transporting a white woman across state lines nearly a century earlier.