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

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

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May 24

FEATURED BIOGRAPHY

Queen Victoria

FEATURED EVENT

1883

Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge

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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.]

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