SATURDAY, MAY 24, 2014

Today is Saturday, May 24, the 144th day of 2014. There are 221 days left in the year.

1626 ― Peter Minuit buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24

1689 ― English parliament guarantees freedom of religion for Protestants

1915 ― Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations

1928 ― Record 12 future Hall of Famers take the field, as Yankees beat A's 9-7

1941 ― Bismarck sinks British battle cruiser HMS Hood; 1,416 die 3 survive

1948 ― Benjamin Brittens "Beggar's Opera" premieres in Cambridge

1954 ― IBM announces vacuum tube "electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour

1965 ― Supreme Court declares federal law allowing post office to intercept communist propaganda is unconstitutional

1980 ― Iran rejects a call to the World Court to release U.S. hostages

1988 ― John Moschitta set record for fast talking; 586 words per minute