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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
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Editors:
Wyatt McKean is the Executive Editor of The Dartmouth Independent. He is a Government major and has studied abroad at the London School of Economics. His interests include history, economics, arts and architecture.
Charles Buker is the Politics Editor of The Dartmouth Independent. He is a Government major and Spanish minor who has lived in Buenos Aires and studied abroad in Madrid. He specializes in Spanish and Latin American affairs.
Senior Writer:
Kevin Karp is TDI's chief international correspondent. He has worked in the British Parliament and will be a History graduate student at Cambridge University in the Fall.
Writers:
Bill Gerath is a contributor to The Dartmouth Independent.
Timothy Kessler is a contributor to The Dartmouth Independent. He is a Government major and is working on a senior honors thesis on 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 Malaysia.
David Mainiero is the Managing Editor of The Dartmouth Independent. He is a History major with a specialty in Iranian affairs.
Laura Logan is a sophomore at the American University in Cairo.
John Chen is a Government and History major who specializes in military studies and East Asian foreign policy.
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