Wednesday, May 24, 2017

THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― MAY 24

May 24 is the 144th day of the year (145th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 221 days remaining until the end of the year.

NATIONAL SCAVENGER HUNT DAY 


1738 ― John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.

1775 ― John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress.


1844 
― Samuel F.B. Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" (first telegraph message).


1846 
― General and furture U.S. President, Zachary Taylor,  captures Monterey in the U.S.-Mexican War.


1862 ― London's Westminster Bridge across the Thames River is opened.


1883 
― The Brooklyn Bridge is opened by President Chester Arthur and  NY Governor Grover Cleveland.


1915 
― Thomas Alva Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations.

1935 ― The Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 on this night in 1935 in Major League Baseball’s first-ever night game, played courtesy of recently installed lights at Crosley Field in Cincinnati.

1941 ― The German battleship Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die, 3 survive.

1943 ― On this day in 1943, the extermination camp at Auschwitz, Poland, receives a new doctor, 32-year-old Josef Mengele, a man who will earn the nickname “the Angel of Death.”

1954 ― IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour.


1958 ― Cuban President Flugencio Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion.

1965 ― The U.S. Supreme Court declares a federal law allowing the post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional.

1968 ― FLQ separatists bomb the the U.S. consulate in Quebec City , Quebec, Canada.


1976 ― In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines.


2001 ― Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest.

2001 
― The Democrats gain control of the U.S. Senate for the first time since 1994 when Senator James Jeffords of Vermont abandons the Republican Party and declares himself an independent.


2002 ― Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty (The Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty).


BORN TODAY 

15 BCGermanicus, Roman general (d. 19)

1819Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, longest reigning British monarch (d. 1901)

1933 Jane Byrne, American lawyer and politician, 50th Mayor of Chicago (d. 2014)

1940 Joseph Brodsky, Russian-American poet and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1996)

From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted. 

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