TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT May 24, 1844

Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message “What hath God wrought” as he formally opened America’s first telegraph line.

ON THIS DATE 1935

The first major league baseball game to be played at night took place at Cincinnati’s Crosley Field.

1961

A group of Freedom Riders was arrested after arriving at a bus terminal in Jackson, Miss., charged with breaching the peace for entering white-designated areas.

1976

Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde supersonic transport service to Washington.