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May 24
By Wyatt McKean
|May 24, 2010 08:10 PM
Sikorsky and his helicopter.
Events
1626: Peter Minuit buys Manhattan Island from the Lenape Tribe for goods worth the equivalent of $1000 USD, though this is more commonly reported as $24. The latter figure was calculated in 1846.
1844: Samuel Morse sends the message “What Hath God Wrought” from Washington, D.C. to his assistant in Baltimore via the first telegraph line.
1883: The Brooklyn Bridge finally opens. During construction, its designer, John A. Roebling’s foot was crushed by an arriving ferry and his toes were amputated, and he succumbed to tetanus 24 days later. His son, Washington Roebling, assumed control of the project following his death but was himself later paralyzed by decompression sickness while working in a caisson.
1921: The trial of Sacco and Vanzetti opens. Sacco and Vanzetti were anarchists and Italian immigrants to the U.S. who were charged with murdering two men during an armed robbery and ultimately sentenced to death. The trial was widely held to have been unfair, on account of the men’s politics.
1940: Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful helicopter flight.
Births
1743: Jean-Paul Marat, French revolutionary
1819: Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
1879: H.B. Reese, American candy maker
1941: Bob Dylan, American songwriter
Deaths
1543: Nicolaus Copernicus, Polish astronomer
1879: William Lloyd Garrison, American publisher and abolitionist
1959: John Foster Dulles, U.S. Secretary of State
1974: Duke Ellington, American composer
Come, ye armchair generals, statesmen, and oil barons. The Smoke-Filled Room covers issues of politics, business, and international affairs with all the predictability of a 12-gauge. Speculators, sycophants, aspiring monopolists and other fashionable degenerates are always welcome.
Leave no cigar un-chomped.
Editor:
Wyatt McKean has been a senior editor of The Dartmouth Independent since 2008. He is a Government major and has studied abroad at the London School of Economics. His interests include history, economics, arts and architecture.
Senior Writer:
Kevin Karp is TDI's chief international correspondent, having graduated from Dartmouth last spring. He has worked in the British Parliament and is a graduate student in History at Cambridge University.
Writers:
Charles Buker is a Government major and Spanish minor who has lived in Buenos Aires and studied abroad in Madrid. This summer, he worked in the office of Washington, D.C.'s Chief Financial Officer. He specializes in Spanish and Latin American affairs as well as American politics and constitutional law.
John Chen is a Government and History major who specializes in military studies and East Asian foreign policy.
Timothy Kessler is a Government major working on a senior honors thesis about Identitarian Realism.
John Lee is a columnist for The Malaysian Insider and was co-editor of Where Is Justice?, a book about the brutal politics of the Malaysian government. Recently, Malaysian authorities began forcibly removing his book from stores; he writes about the experience in TDI's fall print issue.
Laura Logan is a junior at the American University in Cairo specializing in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her many dispatches from Cairo and Jerusalem have included stories of stone-hurling teenagers, fugitive pedophiles, and detainment at the Ben Gurion Airport.
David Mainiero is the Executive Editor of The Dartmouth Independent. He is a History major with a specialty in Iranian affairs.
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