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• Today is Saturday, May 24, the 144th day of 2014. There are 221 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On May 24, 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.
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• On this date:
• In 1775, John Hancock was elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding Peyton Randolph.
• In 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge, linking Brooklyn and Manhattan, was dedicated by President Chester Alan Arthur and New York Gov. Grover Cleveland.
• In 1889, Germany's Reichstag passed a mandatory disability and old-age insurance law.
• 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 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 1962, astronaut Scott Carpenter became the second American to orbit the Earth as he flew aboard Aurora 7.
• In 1974, American jazz composer and bandleader Duke Ellington, 75, died in New York.
• In 1976, Britain and France opened trans-Atlantic Concorde supersonic transport service to Washington.
• In 1989, the action-adventure movie "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade," starring Harrison Ford and Sean Connery, was released by Paramount Pictures.
• In 1994, four men convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center in 1993 were each sentenced to 240 years in prison.
• In 2001, 23 people were killed when the floor of a Jerusalem wedding hall col

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