May 24-- Part 2: Brooklyn Bridge Opens 1883

1883--  The Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, was opened to traffic.

1935--  Major League Baseball's first night game was played in Cincinnati.  The Reds defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1.

1941--  In World War II, the German battleship Bismarck sank the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic.  Only three aboard survived.

1941--  Bob Dylan born.

1943--  Actor Gary Burghoff (MASH) born.

1951--  Cooter / RoadDog born.

--Cooter