Updated May 23, 2012, 2:28 pm
On May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, was opened to traffic.
On May 24, 1819, Queen Victoria, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch, was born. Following her death on Jan. 22, 1901, her obituary appeared in The Times.
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On This Date
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1819 Queen Victoria was born in London. 1830 The first passenger railroad in the United States began service between Baltimore and Ellicott Mills, Md. 1883 The Brooklyn Bridge was opened to traffic. 1935 The first major league baseball game played at night took place at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field. The Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1. 1958 United Press International was formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service. 1962 Astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7. 1976 Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington. 1994 Four men convicted of bombing New York’s World Trade Center in 1993 were each sentenced to 240 years in prison. 2000 Israeli troops pulled out of southern Lebanon, ending 18 years of occupation. 2011 Egyptian authorities ordered former President Hosni Mubarak tried on charges of corruption and conspiracy in the deadly shooting of protesters who’d driven him from power. Current Birthdays
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R&B singer Patti LaBelle turns 68 years old today.
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Actor Alfred Molina turns 59 years old today.
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1938 Tommy Chong, Comedian (Cheech and Chong), turns 74 1941 Bob Dylan, Rock singer, songwriter, turns 71 1943 Gary Burghoff, Actor (“M*A*S*H”), turns 69 1945 Priscilla Presley, Actress, turns 67 1949 Jim Broadbent, Actor, turns 63 1955 Rosanne Cash, Singer, turns 57 1960 Kristin Scott Thomas, Actress, turns 52 1965 John C. Reilly, Actor, turns 47 1978 Brad Penny, Baseball player, turns 34
Historic Birthdays
Victoria 5/24/1819 – 1/22/1901 English queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901) and empress of India (1876-1901).Go to obituary »
50 Daniel Fahrenheit 5/24/1686 – 9/16/1736
German physicist and developer of the temperature scale52 Emanuel Leutze 5/24/1816 – 7/18/1868
German-born American painter of historic events68 Benjamin Cardozo 5/24/1870 – 7/9/1938
American Supreme Court justice (1932-8)80 Jan Smuts 5/24/1870 – 9/11/1950
South African statesman, soldier and prime minister (1919-24)91 Harry Emerson Fosdick 5/24/1878 – 10/5/1969
American Protestant minister, teacher and author87 Helen Brooke Taussig 5/24/1898 – 5/20/1986
American physician; founded pediatric cardiology39 Suzanne Lenglen 5/24/1899 – 7/4/1938
French tennis player; Wimbledon champion and Olympic gold-medalist (1920)78 Mikhail Sholokhov 5/24/1905 – 2/21/1984
Russian novelist; awarded Nobel Prize in 196567 Sam Giancana 5/24/1908 – 6/19/1975
American gangster; led Chicago crime syndicate in 1950’s and 1960’s63 Siobhan McKenna 5/24/1923 – 11/16/1986
Irish stage actress
