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May 24th ....
1626 – Peter Minuit buys Manhattan.....
1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded....
1830 – Mary Had a Little Lamb by Sarah Josepha Hale is published.....
1844 – Samuel Morse sends the message "What hath God wrought" (a biblical quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland to inaugurate the first telegraph line.....
1976 – The London to Washington, D.C. Concorde service begins....
1819 - Birth of Victoria, who became Queen in 1837 and is Britain's longest-reigning monarch.....
1974 – Death of Duke Ellington....
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