Today is Saturday, May 24, the 145th day of 2008. There are 221 days left in the year.
1899 _ First auto repair shop opens (Boston)
1915 _ Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations
1916 _ Conscription begins in Britain
1944 _ Icelandic voters severe all ties with Denmark
1946 _ Bill Dickey replaces Joe McCarthy as Yankee manager
1954 _ IBM announces vacuum tube ``electronic" brain that could perform 10 million operations an hour
1958 _ UP and International News Service merge into United Press International
1964 _ Panic in Lima Peru soccer stadium, kills 300
1968 _ President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse
1986 _ Margaret Thatcher becomes first British P.M. to visit Israel