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Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge: 24 May 1883 - This Day in History
A brilliant feat of 19th-century engineering, the Brooklyn Bridge—spanning the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan Island in New York City—opened this day in 1883, designed by civil engineer John Augustus Roebling.
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1951: In the U.S. nuclear program, the fourth test of Operation Greenhouse was conducted, resulting in the first proof-of-principle test of a booster design in nuclear fission.
1928: Irish author William Trevor was born in County Cork.
1856: A group of abolitionists led by John Brown launched a nighttime raid on a proslavery settlement at Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas Territory during which five men were murdered.
1822: Part of the Latin American wars of independence from Spanish rule, the Battle of Pichincha took place on the lower slopes of Cerro Pichincha and ended in victory for South American rebels.
1689: The Toleration Act was passed by the British Parliament, granting freedom of worship to Nonconformists and allowing them their own places of worship and their own teachers and preachers.
Queen Victoria: Biography of the Day
"We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat; they do not exist."Queen Victoria, on the Boer War (1899)
Born this day in 1819, Victoria, queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1837–1901) and empress of India (1876–1901), gave her name to an era that was marked by British expansion and economic prosperity.
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