Some noticeable things happened on this day in history! The fifth crusade began on this day. Copernicus published proof that the sun was the center of the solar system. The first permanent English settlement in Virginia was founded on this day. The Irish Rebellion began on this day, and the first ever bike race in the United States was held late in the nineteenth century. The Brooklyn Bridge linking Manhattan with Brooklyn was opened, and the first public garage was opened in Boston. Edison invented a device that recorded telephone conversations, the first air-conditioned train was introduced, and the first night baseball game was played, all on this day. Racial segregation was ended in the American capital, and the first moving sidewalk was opened in Jersey City. The United Press International came into being, and Eritrea gained it's independence from Ethiopia. Let's see what other newsworthy events happened on this day in history:
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May 24, 1883: Brooklyn Bridge opens
After 14 years and 27 deaths while being constructed, the Brooklyn Bridge over the East River is opened, connecting the great cities of New York and Brooklyn for the first time in history. Thousands of residents of Brooklyn and Manhattan Island turned out to witness the dedication ceremony, which was presided over by President Chester A. Arthur and New York Governor Grover Cleveland. Designed by the late John A. Roebling, the Brooklyn Bridge was the largest suspension bridge ever built to that date.
John Roebling, born in Germany in 1806, was a great pioneer in the design of steel suspension bridges. He studied industrial engineering in Berlin and at the age of 25 immigrated to western Pennsylvania, where he attempted, unsuccessfully, to make his living as a farmer. He later moved to the state capital in Harrisburg, where he found work as a civil engineer. He promoted the use of wire cable and established a successful wire-cable factory.
Meanwhile, he earned a reputation as a designer of suspension bridges, which at the time were widely used but known to fail under strong winds or heavy loads. Roebling is credited with a major breakthrough in suspension-bridge technology: a web truss added to either side of the bridge roadway that greatly stabilized the structure. Using this model, Roebling successfully bridged the Niagara Gorge at Niagara Falls, New York, and the Ohio River at Cincinnati, Ohio. On the basis of these achievements, New York State accepted Roebling's design for a bridge connecting Brooklyn and Manhattan--with a span of 1,595 feet--and appointed him chief engineer. It was to be the world's first steel suspension bridge.
Just before construction began in 1869, Roebling was fatally injured while taking a few final compass readings across the East River. A boat smashed the toes on one of his feet, and three weeks later he died of tetanus. He was the first of more than two dozen people who would die building his bridge. His 32-year-old son, Washington A. Roebling, took over as chief engineer. Roebling had worked with his father on several bridges and had helped design the Brooklyn Bridge.
The two granite foundations of the Brooklyn Bridge were built in timber caissons, or watertight chambers, sunk to depths of 44 feet on the Brooklyn side and 78 feet on the New York side. Compressed air pressurized the caissons, allowing underwater construction. At that time, little was known of the risks of working under such conditions, and more than a hundred workers suffered from cases of compression sickness. Compression sickness, or the "bends," is caused by the appearance of nitrogen bubbles in the bloodstream that result from rapid decompression. Several died, and Washington Roebling himself became bedridden from the condition in 1872. Other workers died as a result of more conventional construction accidents, such as collapses and a fire.
Roebling continued to direct construction operations from his home, and his wife, Emily, carried his instructions to the workers. In 1877, Washington and Emily moved into a home with a view of the bridge. Roebling's health gradually improved, but he remained partially paralyzed for the rest of his life. On May 24, 1883, Emily Roebling was given the first ride over the completed bridge, with a rooster, a symbol of victory, in her lap. Within 24 hours, an estimated 250,000 people walked across the Brooklyn Bridge, using a broad promenade above the roadway that John Roebling designed solely for the enjoyment of pedestrians.
The Brooklyn Bridge, with its unprecedented length and two stately towers, was dubbed the "eighth wonder of the world." The connection it provided between the massive population centers of Brooklyn and Manhattan changed the course of New York City forever. In 1898, the city of Brooklyn formally merged with New York City, Staten Island, and a few farm towns, forming Greater New York.
1086 - Abbott Dauferio/Desiderius becomes Pope Victor III
1153 - Malcolm IV becomes King of Scots
1218 - The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt.
1276 - Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral.
1300 - King Philip IV occupies Flanders, Earl Gwijde captured
1370 - Hanzesteden signs peace treaty with Danish king Waldemar IV
1487 - Imposter Lambert Simnel ceremony crowned as King Edward VI of Dublin
1543 - Nicolaus Copernicus published proof of a sun-centered solar system.
1595 - Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library.
1607 - Captain Christopher Newport and 105 followers found the colony of Jamestown at the mouth of the James River on the coast of Virginia.
1610 - Sir Thomas Gates institutes "laws divine moral and marshal," a harsh civil code for Jamestown.
1621 - The Protestant Union is formally dissolved.
1624 - After years of unprofitable operation Virginia’s charter was revoked and it became a royal colony.
1653 - German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria
1658 - Battle of Dunes (Spanish-French War) fought
1660 - English king Charles II visits Netherlands
1667 - French troops attack into Southern Netherlands
1689 - The English Parliament passed Act of Toleration, protecting freedom of religion for Protestants. Roman Catholics were specifically excluded from exemption.
1697 - English King William III travels through northern Europe
1726 - -26] People's revolt due to increase in gin/brandy tax
1738 - The Methodist Church was established.
1738 - John Wesley is converted, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day.
1764 - Bostonian lawyer James Otis denounced "taxation without representation" and called for the colonies to unite in demonstrating their opposition to Britain’s new tax measures.
1798 - Irish Rebellion of 1798 led by the United Irishmen against British rule begins. Believing that a French invasion of Ireland was imminent, Irish nationalists rose up against the British occupation.
1809 - Dartmoor Prison opens to house French prisoners of war
1815 - George Evans discovers Lachlan River, Australia
1816 - Emamual Leutze was born in Germany. He was most famous for his paintings "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and "Columbus Before the Queen".
1818 - Gen Andrew Jackson captures Pensacola Florida
1822 - At the Battle of Pichincha, Bolivar secured independence of Quito from Spain..
1824 - Pope Leo XII proclaims a universal jubilee
1829 - Pope Pius VIII issues his program for pontificate
1830 - "Mary Had A Little Lamb," is published
1830 - The first passenger railroad service in the U.S. began service. (Baltimore and Elliots Mill, Maryland)
1832 - The First Kingdom of Greece is declared in the London Conference.
1844 - Samuel F.B. Morse formally opened America's first telegraph line. The first message was sent from Washington, DC, to Baltimore, MD. The message was "What hath God wrought?"
1854 - Anthony Burns, slave, arrested by US Deputy marshals in Boston
1854 - Lincoln University, Penn, first Black college in US founded by John Miller Dickey and Sarah Emlen Cresson
1856 - Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas
1859 - Charles Gounod's "Ave Maria" was performed by Madame Caroline Miolan-Carvalho for the first time in public.
1861 - Alexandria, VA occupied by Federal troops
1861 - Maj Gen Benjamin Butler declares slaves "contraband of war"
1862 - Beardslee field telegraph used for first time
1862 - Westminster Bridge across Thames opens
1863 - Bushwackers led by Captain William Marchbanks attacked a U.S. Federal militia party in Nevada, Missouri.
1866 - Berkeley, California named (for George Berkeley, Bishop of Cloyne)
1870 - Memoria of Jackson Kemper, 1st Missionary Bishop in US
1873 - Leo Delibes' opera "Le Roi l'a Dit," premieres in Paris
1877 - 5th Preakness: C Holloway aboard Cloverbrook wins in 2:45.5
1878 - The first American bicycle race was held in Beacon Park in Boston. CA Parker (Harvard) wins.
1879 - 7th Preakness: L Hughes aboard Harold wins in 2:40.5
1881 - Turkey cedes Thessaly and Arta back to Greece.
1881 - About 200 people died when the Canadian ferry Princess Victoria sank near London, Ontario.
1883 - After fourteen years of construction, the Brooklyn Bridge was opened by Pres Arthur and Gov Cleveland, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic.
1884 - Anti-Monopoly party and Greenback Party forms People's Party in US
1887 - Sultan Bargash of Zanzibar grants E Afr Association at East African harbors
1890 - Caprivi succeeds Bismarck on as chancellor of Germany
1890 - Geo Train & Sam Wall circle world in record 67 days, Tacoma-Tacoma
1890 - Tivoli Theater of Varities opens in London
1895 - Henry Irving becomes 1st theatrical knight
1899 - First auto repair shop opens. W.T. McCullough of Boston, Mass., opened the first public garage. One could rent space for selling, storing and repairing vehicles.
1900 - 34th Belmont: Nash Turner aboard Ildrim wins in 2:21¼
1901 - Seventy-eight miners die in the Caerphilly pit disaster in South Wales.
1902 - Empire Day first celebrated in Britain
1902 - Cleve's Bill Bradley is 1st ALer to hit a HR run in 4 consecutive games, not duplicated until Babe Ruth does it June 25, 1918
1905 - 39th Belmont: Eugene Hildebrand aboard Tanya wins in 2:08
1908 - Belgium Catholic socialist/liberal parliamentary election
1908 - John Masefields "Tragedy of Nan," premieres in London
1909 - Bristol University granted Royal Charter
1913 - The U.S. Department of Labor entered into its first strike mediation. The dispute was between the Railroad Clerks of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad.
1915 - Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1916 - Conscription begins in Britain
1916 - French driven out of Fort Douaumont after 500 killed or injured
1916 - Last British-Indian contract workers arrive in Suriname
1916 - US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
1918 - Cleveland Indians Stan Coveleski sets club record for most innings pitched (19)
1918 - Cleveland beats Yankees 3-2 in 19th inning
1921 - First parliament for Northern Ireland elected
1921 - British Legion forms
1922 - Record temperature in Netherlands for May (35.6°C)
1922 - Russian-Italian trade agreement signed
1926 - Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4)
1928 - Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yanks beat A's 9-7
1928 - Umberto Nobile flies airship over North Pole again
1929 - Detroit Tigers beats Chicago White Sox, 6-5, in 21 innings
1930 - First woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
1930 - Bradman scores 252* Australia v Surrey, 290 mins, 29 fours
1930 - Ruth homers in both games of a doubleheader, giving him 9 in one week
1930 - Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly from England to Australia.
1931 - B and O Railroad began service with the first passenger train to have air conditioning throughout. The run was between New York City and Washington, DC.
1931 - First air-conditioned train installed-Band;O Railroad
1933 - Dmitri Shostakovitch's Preludes, premieres in Moscow
1934 - Colombia and Peru sign accord about harbor city Leticia
1935 - Major League Baseball’s first night game was played under the lights at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field as the hometown Reds defeated Philadelphia, 2–1.
1936 - Dutch bishops forbid membership of Nazi party
1936 - Tony Lazerri 2 grand slams (11 RBIs); Ben Chapman sets record by reaching 1st 7 times safely, Yanks beat A's 25-2
1940 - First night game at St Louis Sportsman Park (Indians 3, Browns 2)
1940 - Dutch Queen Wilhelmina speaks on BBC radio
1940 - Dutch army demobilizes
1940 - German tanks reach Atrecht France
1940 - Hitler affirms Gen von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"
1940 - NY Giants rip Boston Bees 8-1 in first night game at Polo Grounds
1941 - The British battle cruiser HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic. 1,416 die, and only three people survived.
1943 - Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean
1943 - U-441 shoots Sunderland seaplane down over Gulf of Biskaje
1944 - Enver Hoxha becomes head of Albania anti fascists
1944 - Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
1946 - Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager
1948 - Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera," premieres in Cambridge
1950 - ‘Sweetwater’ (Nat) Clifton’s contract was purchased by the New York Knicks. Sweetwater played for the Harlem Globetrotters and became the first black player in the NBA.
1951 - Racial segregation in Washington DC restaurants was ruled illegal
1951 - US performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1953 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Doctor Mellifluus
1954 - First rocket attains 150 mi (241 km) altitude, White Sands, NM
1954 - Dr Peter Murray Marshall becomes first black to head an AMA unit
1954 - German airline Lufthansa forms
1954 - IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1954 - The first moving sidewalk in a railroad station was opened in Jersey City, NJ.
1956 - Conclusion of the Sixth Buddhist Council on Vesak Day, marking the 2,500 year anniversary after the Lord Buddha's Parinibbāna.
1957 - Anti American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan
1957 - Heavy earthquake strikes Colombia
1958 - "New Girl in Town" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 432 perfs
1958 - Pres Batista opens offensive against Fidel Castro's rebellion
1958 - -The United Press and the International News Service merged to form United Press International (UPI).
1959 - First house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited (Pleasant Hills Pa)
1959 - Empire Day renamed Commonwealth Day in England
1960 - 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed
1961 - 27 Freedom Riders arrested in Jackson, Mississippi
1961 - Explorer (12) fails to reach Earth orbit
1961 - Cyprus enters the Council of Europe.
1962 - The officials of the National Football League ruled that halftime of regular season games would be cut to 15 minutes.
1962 - M Scott Carpenter aboard Aurora 7 launched into Earth orbit
1963 - First Lockheed A-12 to crash, CIA pilot Ken Collins ejects safely
1964 - 18th Tony Awards: Luther & Hello Dolly win
1964 - Beatles' 3rd appearance on Ed Sullivan
1964 - Longest HR (471') in Balt Memorial Stadium (Harmon Killebrew, Minn)
1964 - Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
1965 - Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional
1966 - "Mame" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1508 performances
1967 - California Governor Ronald Reagan greeted Charles M. Schulz at the state capitol in observance of the legislature-proclaimed "Charles Schulz Day."
1967 - AFL grants a franchise to Cincinnati Bengals
1968 - Haiti closes down shortwave station 4VEH for 40 days
1968 - Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession
1968 - Pres De Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse
1968 - FLQ separatists bomb the U.S. consulate in Quebec City.
1969 - Beatles' "Get Back," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 5 weeks
1970 - Peter Queen quits Fleetwood Mac to join a religious cult
1970 - The drilling of the Kola Superdeep Borehole begins in the Soviet Union.
1971 - A commuter bus plunges into Panama Canal, killing 38 of 43 aboard
1972 - Glasgow Rangers wins 12th Europe Cup II at Barcelona
1972 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1973 - Earl Jellicoe resigns as Lord Privy Seal and Leader of the Lords.
1974 - The last "Dean Martin Show" was seen on NBC. The show had been aired for 9 years.
1975 - Dutch government of De Uyl decides to obtain an F-16
1976 - First commercial SST flight to North America (Concorde to Wash DC)
1976 - Muhammad Ali TKOs Richard Dunn in 5 for heavyweight boxing title in Munich
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.
1976 - Britain and France opened commercial trans-Atlantic Concorde service flights to Washington.
1978 - Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect
1979 - Billy Martin issues a public apology to Reno sportswriter Ray Hagar
1979 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1980 - "Rock Lobster" by B-52's hits #56
1980 - Stanley Cup: NY Islanders beat Phila Flyers, 4 games to 2
1980 - The International Court of Justice issued a final decision calling for the release of the hostages taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.
1981 - Bobby Unser wins, loses, and wins a controversial Indy 500
1981 - Hostage situation ends at Central Bank in Barcelona Spain.
1982 - Liberation of Khorramshahr, Iranians recapture of the port city of Khorramshahr from the Iraqis during the Iran-Iraq War.
1983 - The Brooklyn Bridge's 100th birthday was celebrated.
1983 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the right to deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminate.
1983 - Fred Sinowatz succeeds Bruno Kreisky as chancellor of Austria
1984 - "Wiz" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 13 performances
1984 - Detroit Tigers win AL record 17th straight road game
1985 - "View to a Kill" premieres in US
1985 - -25) cyclone hits Bangladesh; about 10,000 die
1986 - Margaret Thatcher becomes first British PM to visit Israel
1986 - Reginald Huffstetler trode water for 985 hrs
1986 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat Calgary Flames, 4 games to 1
1987 - Al Unser Sr, 47, wins his 4th Indy 500
1988 - John Moschitta set record for fast talking: 586 words per minute
1988 - Porntip Nakhirunkanok, 19, of Thailand, crowned 37th Miss Universe
1988 - Power outage in Boston Garden in NHL's Stanley Cup finals
1988 - Section 28 is passed as law by Parliament in the United Kingdom.
1989 - "Indiana Jones & Last Crusade" premieres
1989 - AC Milan wins 34th Europe Cup 1 at Barcelona
1989 - French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
1989 - NHL's NY Rangers fire GM & coach Phil Esposito
1989 - Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack
1989 - NY Yankee hurler Lee Gutterman sets record of pitching 30-2/3 innings before giving up his 1st run of season
1989 - Sonia Sutcliffe, wife of the Yorkshire Ripper, is awarded £600,000 in damages (later reduced to £60,000 on appeal) after winning a libel action against Private Eye.
1990 - Andre Dawson receives a record 5 intentional walks in a game
1990 - Stanley Cup: Edmonton Oilers beat Boston Bruins, 4 games to 1
1990 - A car carrying American Earth First! activists Judi Bari and Darryl Cherney explodes in Oakland, California, critically injuring both.
1992 - Al Unser Jr wins Indy 500
1992 - Despite trailing 7-1, NY Yanks tie Milwaukee Brewers & then score 1 in 9th to avoid 5th straight extra inning game
1993 - Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesus Posada Ocampo and six other people were killed at the Guadalajara, Mexico, airport in a shootout that involved drug gangs.
1993 - The Ethiopian province of Eritrea declared itself an independent nation, following a civil war that had lasted three decades..
1993 - Kim Basinger files for bankruptcy to avoid paying $7.4M settlement
1993 - Kurd rebellion kills 33 soldiers and 5 citizens in Turkey
1994 - Poison singer Bret Michaels gets into a car crash
1994 - The four men convicted of bombing the New York's World Trade Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1996 - "Spy Hard," starring Leslie Nielsen is released
1997 - Actor Tim Allen arrested for drunk driving in Mich
1997 - STS 84 (Atlantis 19), lands
1997 - Telstar-5 Proton Launch, Successful
1998 - Indianapolis 500 race
1999 - Venezuela enters the Antarctic Treaty System.
1999 - 39 miners were killed in an underground gas explosion in the Ukraine.
2000 - Five people were killed and two others wounded when two gunmen entered a Wendy's restaurant in Flushing, Queens, New York. The gunmen tied up the victims in the basement and then shot them.
2000 - The U.S. House of Representatives approved permanent normal trade relations with China. China was not happy about some of the human rights conditions that had been attached by the U.S. lawmakers.
2000 - A Democratic Party event for Al Gore in Washington brought in $26.5 million. The amount set a new record, which had just been set the previous month by Republicans for Texas Gov. George W. Bush.
2000 - Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.
2001 - Mountain climbing: 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb up and reach the summit of Mount Everest.
2001 - The Versailles wedding hall disaster in Jerusalem, Israel, kills 23 and injures over 200 in Israel's worst-ever civil disaster.
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.
2004 - Communications in North Korea: North Korea bans mobile phones.
These are the web sites that were used for the completion of tis blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/day/may/24
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/may24.htm
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