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

This message contains graphics. If you do not see the graphics, click here to view. May 24 FEATURED BIOGRAPHY Queen Victoria READ MORE   FEATURED EVENT 1883 Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge READ MORE   Advertisement Advertisement   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. [Sort fact from fiction in our quiz about the Middle East.] 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. [Watch the sequence of events in the fission of a uranium nucleus by a neutron.] 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.] 1938: Carl Magee of Oklahoma was granted a U.S. patent for the first coin-controlled parking metre, which become ubiquitous on streets around the country. [ Test your knowledge of inventions.] SEE ALL EVENTS ON THIS DAY 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 1908 Sam Giancana American gangster SEE ALL BIOS ON THIS DAY   Advertisement   FOLLOW: To unsubscribe from Britannica e-mails, click here. Encyclopædia Britannica 325 N. LaSalle Street, Suite 200 Chicago, Illinois 60654 United States © 2021 Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. Privacy Policy • Help