Today in History: May 24
In 1844, Samuel F. B. Morse transmitted the message “What hath God wrought” from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America’s first telegraph line.
In 1856, a group of abolitionists led by John Brown launched a nighttime raid on a proslavery settlement at Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas Territory, during which five men were murdered.
In 1883, New York’s Brooklyn Bridge, at the time the world’s longest suspension bridge, opened to traffic.
The first Major League baseball night game was played in 1935 at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field. The Cincinnati Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1.
In 1937 the United States Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Social Security Act of 1935 in a pair of rulings.
In 1941 American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan was born was born in Duluth, Minnesota. His birth name was Robert Allen Zimmerman.
The iconic American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington died in New York in 1974 at the age of 75.
In 2023 longtime R&B icon Tina Turner died at age 83.
In 1683, the Toleration Act was passed by the British Parliament, granting freedom of worship to Nonconformists and allowing them their own places of worship and their own teachers and preachers.
