1913<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S. Department of Labor entered into its first strike mediation. The dispute was between the Railroad Clerks of the New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong> – Amy Johnson became the first woman to fly from England to Australia.<\/p>\n 1931<\/strong> – B&O Railroad began service with the first passenger train to have air conditioning throughout. The run was between New York City and Washington, DC.<\/p>\n 1935<\/strong> – The Cincinnati Reds played the Philadelphia Phillies in the first major league baseball game at night. The switch for the floodlights was thrown by\u00a0U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.<\/p>\n 1941<\/strong> – The\u00a0HMS Hood<\/i>\u00a0was sunk by the German battleship\u00a0Bismarck<\/i>\u00a0in the North Atlantic. Only three people survived.<\/p>\n 1950<\/strong> – \u2018Sweetwater\u2019 (Nat) Clifton\u2019s contract was purchased by the New York Knicks. Sweetwater played for the Harlem Globetrotters.<\/p>\n 1954<\/strong> – The first moving sidewalk in a railroad station was opened in Jersey City, NJ.<\/p>\n 1958<\/strong> – United Press International was formed through a merger of the United Press and the International News Service.<\/p>\n 1961<\/strong> – The Freedom Riders were arrested in Jackson, Mississippi.<\/p>\n 1962<\/strong> – The officials of the National Football League ruled that halftime of regular season games would be cut to 15 minutes.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong> –\u00a0California\u00a0Governor\u00a0Ronald Reagan\u00a0greeted Charles M. Schulz at the state capitol in observance of the legislature-proclaimed “Charles Schulz Day.”<\/p>\n 1974<\/strong> – The last “Dean Martin Show” was seen on NBC. The show had been aired for 9 years.<\/p>\n 1976<\/strong> – Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde service to Washington.<\/p>\n 1980<\/strong> – The International Court of Justice issued a final decision calling for the release of the hostages taken at the U.S. embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The Brooklyn Bridge’s 100th birthday was celebrated.<\/p>\n 1983<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0Supreme Court ruled that the federal government had the right to deny tax breaks to schools that racially discriminate.<\/p>\n 1986<\/strong> – Montreal won its 23rd National Hockey League (NHL) Stanley Cup championship.<\/p>\n 1990<\/strong> – The Edmonton Oilers won their fifth National Hockey League (NHL) Stanley Cup.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – Roman Catholic Cardinal Juan Jesus Posada Ocampo and six other people were killed at the Guadalajara, Mexico, airport in a shootout that involved drug gangs.<\/p>\n 1993<\/strong> – The Ethiopian province of Eritrea declared itself an independent nation.<\/p>\n 1994<\/strong> – The four men convicted of bombing the New York’s World Trade Center were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.<\/p>\n 1999<\/strong> – 39 miners were killed in an underground gas explosion in Ukraine.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – Five people were killed and two others wounded when two gunmen entered a Wendy’s restaurant in Flushing, Queens, New York. The gunmen tied up the victims in the basement and then shot them.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – The\u00a0U.S.\u00a0House of Representatives approved permanent normal trade relations with China. China was not happy about some of the human rights conditions that had been attached by the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0lawmakers.<\/p>\n 2000<\/strong> – A Democratic Party event for Al Gore in Washington brought in $26.5 million. The amount set a new record, which had just been set the previous month by Republicans for Texas Gov.\u00a0George W. Bush.<\/p>\n 2001<\/strong> – Temba Tsheri, 15, became the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest.<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong> – NASA announced the development of the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle (MPCV) spacecraft. It is intended to facilitate exploration of the Moon, asteroids, and Mars.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 A 6.4 magnitude\u00a0earthquake\u00a0occurs in the\u00a0Aegean Sea\u00a0between\u00a0Greece\u00a0and\u00a0Turkey, injuring 324 people.<\/p>\n 2014<\/strong> \u2013 At least three people are killed in a\u00a0shooting\u00a0at Brussels’\u00a0Jewish Museum of Belgium.<\/p>\n History of 24 May 1913 – The\u00a0U.S. Department of Labor entered into its first strike mediation. 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