CoM Moderators Posted May 24 Posted May 24 1928 - Italian aviator Umberto Nobile flies airship Italia over North Pole again (crashes onto ice pack a day later) 1928 - Record 12 future Baseball Hall of Famers take the field as NY Yankees beat Philadelphia A's, 9-7 at Shibe Park; managers Miller Huggins and Connie Mack, umpire Tom Connolly also HOF'ers 1943 - Final entry in the Stroop Report, detailing the destruction of the Jewish Warsaw Ghetto, compiled by Nazi officers, later used as evidence in the Nuremberg trials 1957 - Anti-American riots breakout in Taipei, Taiwan 1960 - 1 millionth Dutch telephone installed 1961 - NASA Explorer Ionosphere research mission fails to reach Earth orbit 1968 - Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull arrested for drug possession in England 1978 - Dutch Investment bill (WIR) law goes into effect 1987 - Golden Gate Bridge 50th anniversary: Over 800K people show up, 300K walk on bridge at same time, span temporarily flattens from weight (San Francisco, California) 1989 - Weird Al Yankovic records three tracks for his UHF movie soundtrack More Historical Events »
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