ROSS SIMPSON

Samuel F.B. Morse formally opening  America’s first telegraph line.

The four men convicted of bombing the New York’s World Trade
Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison on this day in
1994.

Queen Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria)
(May 24, 1819 – January 22, 1901)

Victoria was Queen of the United Kingdom from 1837 until
1901. A national emblem of morality, she oversaw a great 
period of expansion in the British Empire and had the longest
reign of any monarch (nearly sixty-four years) until Queen 
Elizabeth II surpassed her in 2015.

The Brooklyn Bridge on opening night, May 24, 1883. Photo from
Brooklyn Museum.

Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) is 76 years old today.

Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan revolutionized folk music in the 1960’s
with albums such as The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, and
Blonde on Blonde and songs such as "The Times They Are a-Changin’," "Like
a Rolling Stone," and "Positively 4th Street." He changed his name to Dylan
after the poet Dylan Thomas. Bod Dylan was born into a Jewish family, but later
converted to Christianity.

SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1945

It was on this day in 1886.

The Coca-Cola logo was created by John Pemberton’s bookkeeper,
Frank Mason Robinson, in 1885. Robinson came up with the name
and chose the logo’s distinctive cursive script.

Let It Be is the twelfth and final studio album by The Beatles. It was
released on this day in 1970, almost a month after the group’s break-
up.

Black and Blue is the 13th British and 15th American studio album by the
band the Rolling Stones.  It was the band’s first studio album released with
Ronnie Wood as the replacement for Mick Taylor. The album spent an
interrupted four-week spell at number 1 in the US, going platinum.

DC Comic book  ad.

The song “Strangers In the Night” reached number one on both the Billboard
Hot 100 chart and the Easy Listening chart, it was the title song for Sinatra’s
1966 album “Strangers in the Night”, which became his most commercially
successful album. The song also reached number one on the UK Singles
Chart.

Sinatra’s recording won him the Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal
Performance and the Grammy Award for Record of the Year, as well as a
Grammy Award for Best Arrangement Accompanying a Vocalist or
Instrumentalist for Ernie Freeman at the Grammy Awards of 1967.

The album cover of the Beatles‘ "Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club
Band" was staged and photographed on this day. The concept for
the cover was called "people we like” and was created by Jann
Haworth and Peter Blake. They won the Grammy Award for Best
Album Cover, Graphic Arts in 1967 for their work.