Interesting things that happened May 24th:
Birthdays on this date:
In 1686 Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, physicist, invented a thermometer
In 1743 Jean-Paul Marat, philosopher
In 1819 Victoria, queen of the United Kingdom, empress of India
In 1878 Lillian Moller Gilbreth, engineer
In 1886 Paul Paray, conductor, composer
In 1895 Samuel Irving Newhouse, Sr., publisher
In 1909 Wilbur Mills, US congressman (D-AK), helped create Medicare
In 1918 Coleman Young, Mayor of Detroit (1974-94)
In 1930 Robert Bateman, naturalist, artist
In 1934 Jane Byrne, Mayor of Chicago (1979-83)
In 1941 Robert Zimmerman (a.k.a. Bob Dylan) (in Minnesota), folk singer
In 1943 Gary Burghoff, actor (M*A*S*H)
In 1944 Patti Labelle, singer
+ Frank Oz, muppeteer, actor, director
In 1945 Priscilla Presley, actor, wife of Elvis
In 1955 Roseanne Cash, singer, daughter of Johnny Cash
In 1963 Joe Dumars, basketball player
In 1965 ****nichiro Watanabe, anime director
Events worth noting:
+ Aldersgate Day (Methodism)
In 1595 The first printed catalog of an institutional library, The
Nomenclator of Leiden University Library, is published.
In 1626 Reputedly, Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.
In 1689 The English Parliament passed the Act of Toleration, protecting
non-
Anglican Protestants, but not Roman Catholics.
In 1738 John Wesley begins the Methodist movement.
In 1798 An Irish rebellion against British rule begins.
In 1832 The First Kingdom of Greece is declared.
In 1844 Samuel F.B. Morse completes first telegraph line (Wa****nton to
Baltimore) and taps out "What Hath God Wrought"..
In 1854 1st Victoria Day celebration -- 5000 citizens gather at
Government
House in Toronto to give cheers to the Queen on her birthday.
In 1866 Berkeley named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne). Never
turn
your back on it.
In 1881 Turkey cedes Thessaly and Arta back to Greece.
In 1883 The Brooklyn Bridge opened by Pres. Arthur and Governor
Cleveland.
In 1888 Queen Victoria Park (Niagara Falls, Ontario) opens.
In 1893 The Anti-Saloon League is founded in Oberlin, Ohio.
In 1899 The first auto repair shop opens in Boston, MA.
In 1915 Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone
conversations.
In 1918 Canadian women gain the right to vote in federal elections.
+ Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19 inning.
In 1929 "The Cocoanuts," the first film to star the Marx Brothers,
premieres.
In 1931 First air-conditioned train installed - B&O Railroad.
In 1935 Major league baseball's first night game is played at Cincinnati
(vs. Philadelphia). It is also the first s****ting event
broadcast on
the Mutual Broadcasting Network (WGN,CKLW,&c).
In 1936 Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs) Ben Chapman sets record by
reaching first 7 times safely. Yanks beat A's 25-2.
In 1941 HMS Hood sunk by Prinz Eugen and Bismarck off Iceland.
In 1946 Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager.
In 1949 The USSR ends its 11-month blockade of Berlin.
In 1954 First rocket to exceed 150 mile altitude - White Sands, NM.
+ IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that performs 10
million operations an hour.
In 1959 First house in U.S. with built-in bomb shelter exhibited,
Pleasant
Hills, Pa.
In 1962 M. Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 is launched.
In 1964 Beatles' third appearance on Ed Sullivan.
In 1968 FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
In 1975 Soyuz 18B is launched.
In 1981 International Women's Day for Disarmament is first celebrated.
In 1990 A car carrying two Earth First! activists explodes in Oakland,
CA.
In 1992 Thai dictator General Suchinda Kraprayoon resigns.
In 1993 Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia.
+ Microsoft releases Windows NT.
In 1994 Four men convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center in
1993
are each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
In 2000 Israel ends 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon.
In 2001 Senator James Jeffords (VT) leaves Republican Party and declares
himself an independent.
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National Hamburger Month
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