History for May 24

History for May 24 - On-This-Day.com
Gabriel Daniel Fahrenheit 1686 - Physicist, engineer, he determined the temperature scale named after him, Queen Victoria (Britain) 1819, Tommy Chong 1938 - Comedian (Cheech and Chong), Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) 1941 - Musician, singer, songwriter (Traveling Wilburys)


Gary Burghoff 1943 - Actor ("M*A*S*H"), Priscilla Presley 1945 - Wife of Elvis Presley, Joe Dumars 1963


1689 - The English Parliament passed Act of Toleration, protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics were specifically excluded from exemption.


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.


1816 - Emamual Leutze was born in Germany. He was most famous for his paintings "Washington Crossing the Delaware" and "Columbus Before the Queen".


1830 - The first passenger railroad service in the U.S. began service.


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?"


1941 - The HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship Bismarck in the North Atlantic. Only three people survived.


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.