• Today is Friday, May 24, the 144th day of 2013. There are 221 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 24, 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, was dedicated by President Chester Alan Arthur and New York Gov. Grover Cleveland.
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• On this date:
• In 1775, John Hancock was elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding Peyton Randolph.
• In 1844, Samuel F.B. Morse transmitted the message "What hath God wrought" from Washington to Baltimore as he formally opened America's first telegraph line.
• In 1918, Bela Bartok's one-act opera "Bluebeard's Castle" had its premiere in Budapest.
• In 1935, the first major league baseball game to be played at night took place at Cincinnati's Crosley Field as the Reds beat the Philadelphia Phillies, 2-1.
• In 1937, in a set of rulings, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Social Security Act of 1935.
• In 1941, the German battleship Bismarck sank the British battle cruiser HMS Hood in the North Atlantic, killing all but three of the 1,418 men on board.
• In 1959, former U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles died in Washington, D.C. at age 71.
• In 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. (They ended up serving 60 days in jail.)
• In 1962, astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7.
• In 1976, Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde supersonic transport service to Washington.

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