On This Day for May 24 - Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge, Queen Victoria is featured, and more

Created: 2020-05-24 10:02 Updated: 2020-05-24 10:02 Notebook: On this Day in History

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May 24

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Queen Victoria

FEATURED EVENT

1883

Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge

MORE EVENTS ON THIS DAY

2000: Israel ended its 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon, withdrawing the last of its troops from its self-declared security zone.

1994: Four men convicted in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center in New York City were each sentenced to 240 years in prison; the terrorist attack had killed 6 people and injured some 1,000.

1956: The first Eurovision Song Contest was held, in Lugano, Switzerland, and it became a hugely popular annual event. [ Take our quiz about songs and music stars.]

1951: In the U.S. nuclear program, the fourth test of Operation Greenhouse was conducted, resulting in the first proof-of-principle test of a booster design in nuclear fission.

1941: American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan, who was hailed as the Shakespeare of his generation, was born in Duluth, Minnesota. [Test your knowledge of songwriters.]

1928: Irish author William Trevor, who was noted for his wry and often macabre short stories and novels, was born in County Cork. [Take our quiz about authors of classic literature.]

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ALSO BORN ON THIS DAY

1819

Victoria
queen of United Kingdom

1941

Bob Dylan
American musician

1949

Jim Broadbent
British actor

1966

Eric Cantona
French football player

1743

Jean-Paul Marat
French politician, physician, and journalist