05-23-2004, 06:04 PM
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May 24th
1626 ~ Peter Minuit bought Manhattan.
1689 ~ The Act of Toleration passed the English Parliament protecting Protestants (Roman Catholics were intentionally excluded).
1743 ~ Birthday of Jean-Paul Marat, Revolutionary.
1819 ~ Birthday of Queen Victoria.
1844 ~ First electrical telegram sent by Samuel F. B. Morse from Baltimore, Maryland to Washington, D.C., saying "What hath God wrought?".
1870 ~ Birthday of Jan Christiaan Smuts, Statesman and soldier.
1893 ~ Birthday of Walter Baade, Astronomer.
1895 ~ Playwright Oscar Wilde convicted on a morals charge in London and is sentenced to prison.
1941 ~ Birthday of Bob Dylan.
1993 ~ Eritrea gains its independence from Ethiopia.
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