TMN STAFF<\/p>\n
May 24, there are 221 days left in this year.<\/p>\n
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1844<\/strong>– Samuel Morse transmitted the first telegraph message, in which he asked, “What hath God wrought?”<\/p>\n 1883<\/strong>– The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic.<\/p>\n 1899<\/strong>– W.T. McCullough of Boston, Mass., opened the first public garage. One could rent space for selling, storing and repairing vehicles.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong>– Major League Baseball\u2019s first night game was played under the lights at Cincinnati\u2019s Crosley Field as the hometown Reds defeated Philadelphia, 2\u20131.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong>– The United Press and the International News Service merged to form United Press International (UPI).<\/p>\n 1976<\/strong>– The British and French Concordes made their first commercial flights.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong>– Israeli troops pulled out of Lebanon after 18 consecutive years of occupation.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong>– Vermont senator James Jeffords quit the Republican Party and became an Independent, giving Democrats control of the Senate.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Birthdays<\/p>\n 1743<\/strong>– Jean Paul Marat, French revolutionary<\/p>\n 1819<\/strong>– Queen Victoria, queen of Great Britain and Ireland (1837-1901), empress of India (1876-1901)<\/p>\n 1878<\/strong>– Lillian Gilbreth, consulting engineer, household efficiency expert, basis for the “Cheaper by the Dozen” book and movies.<\/p>\n 1905<\/strong>– Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, Russian novelist, “The Silent Don”<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong>– Bob Dylan, singer\/songwriter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TMN STAFF May 24, there are 221 days left in this year. 1844– Samuel Morse transmitted the first telegraph message, in which he asked,… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6132],"tags":[106,6131],"class_list":["post-27000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27001,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27000\/revisions\/27001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}