05-24-2005, 05:08 AM
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May 24th
1819 ~ Birthday of Queen Victoria.
1844 ~ The first telegram was sent by Samuel Morse, from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".
1941 ~ The German battleship Bismarck sank the battlecruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three crewmen.
1941 ~ Birthday of Bob Dylan, Singer and Songwriter.
1959 ~ Death of John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State.
1969 ~ Death of Willy Ley, rocket scientist.
1988 ~ Section 28 was passed as law by Parliament in the U.K.
1991 ~ Israel executed Operation Solomon, which evacuated Ethiopian Jews to Israel.
1995 ~ Death of Harold Wilson, British statesman and P.M.
2000 ~ Israeli troops withdrew from southern Lebanon after 22 years.
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