Today in History: May 24, Brooklyn Bridge opens to traffic

This day is Saturday May the th day of There are days left in the year The present day in history On May New York s Brooklyn Bridge at the time the world s longest suspension bridge opened to traffic Also on this date In Samuel F B Morse transmitted the message What hath God wrought from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America s first telegraph line Related Articles For sentinel a final walk at Arlington s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier McDonald s is closing its CosMc s restaurants but plans to test drinks the chain inspired The penny costs nearly cents to make Here s how much the US spends on minting its other coins Urban fires can mean long trips for helicopters to get water One firefighter had a better idea Runway lights were out as pilot tried to land at foggy San Diego airport before fatal crash In the first Major League Baseball challenge to be played at night took place at Cincinnati s Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies - In in a pair of rulings the U S Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Social Assurance Act of In during World War II the German battleship Bismarck sank the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic killing all but three of the men on board The Bismarck would be sunk by British battleships three days later In astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard the Aurora spacecraft In American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington died in New York In four Islamic extremists convicted of bombing New York s World Commerce Center in were each sentenced to years in prison In an -year-old gunman opened fire at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde Texas killing children and two teachers The gunman Salvador Ramos a former aspirant at the school was also killed It was the deadliest shooting at a U S elementary school since the attack on Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut In contemporary times s Birthdays Comedian Tommy Chong is Musician Bob Dylan is Actor Gary Burghoff M A S H is Singer Patti LaBelle is Actor Priscilla Presley is Actor Jim Broadbent is Cinematographer Roger Deakins is Actor Alfred Molina is Musician Rosanne Cash is Actor Kristin Scott Thomas is Author Michael Chabon is Basketball Hall of Famer Joe Dumars is Actor John C Reilly is Basketball Hall of Famer Tracy McGrady is Dancer-choreographer Mark Ballas is Country singer Billy Gilman is Rapper G-Eazy is Actor Brianne Howey is Actor Daisy Edgar-Jones is