{"id":242244,"date":"2026-05-24T07:35:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242244\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T07:35:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T07:35:38","slug":"on-this-day-may-24-brooklyn-bridge-opens-to-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/242244\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, May 24: Brooklyn Bridge opens to public"},"content":{"rendered":"

1 of 6 | On May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to the public, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York City. File Photo by John Angelillo\/UPI | License Photo<\/a><\/p>\n

On this date in history:<\/p>\n

In 1844, the first U.S telegraph line was formally opened — between Baltimore and Washington. The first message sent was “What hath God wrought?”\n<\/p>\n

In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to the public, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan in New York City.<\/p>\n

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In 1935, the first night game in Major League Baseball was played at Crosley Field in Cincinnati. The Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1.<\/p>\n

In 1943, Josef Mengele, the so-called “Angel of Death” became the new doctor at the Auschwitz death camp in Poland. He fled Germany at the conclusion of World War II and died in 1979 in Brazil<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 1958, United Press and the International News Service merger was announced<\/a>, forming United Press International.<\/p>\n

In 1962, Mercury astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit<\/a> Earth, circling it three times. John Glenn was the first, earlier in the year.<\/p>\n

In 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled private religious schools that practice racial discrimination aren’t eligible<\/a> for church-related tax benefits.\n<\/p>\n

In 1987, 250,000 people jammed San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge on its 50th anniversary<\/a>, temporarily flattening the arched span.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFile Photo by Terry Schmitt\/UPI\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n

In 1991, Eritrea gained independence<\/a> from Ethiopia.<\/p>\n

In 2007, the U.S. Congress voted to increase the minimum wage<\/a> for the first time in 10 years — from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 over a three-year period.<\/p>\n

In 2018, President Donald Trump posthumously pardoned<\/a> Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight boxing champion, for his conviction under a Jim Crow-era law.<\/p>\n

In 2022, a mass shooting<\/a> at a Uvalde, Texas, elementary school left 19 students and two adults dead. Law enforcement officers fatally shot the gunman.<\/p>\n

In 2025, Jafar Panahi’s Un Simple Accident won the Palme d’Or<\/a> at the Cannes Film Festival in France.<\/p>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFile Photo by Rocco Spaziani\/UPI\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1 of 6 | On May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge was opened to the public, linking Brooklyn…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242245,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63,27],"class_list":["post-242244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242244\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}