Public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing began on this day in 1987 with National Security Council staff member Oliver North testifying before a Congressional committee. He was ultimately indicted on 16 felony counts.
It was on this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sandra Day O’Connor turned 81 in March.
Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) is 77 years old today.
Ringo Starr was asked to join The Beatles after their drummer Pete Best had a falling out with the band.
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.
