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1626: Manhattan 1844: Samuel F.B. Morse. The message was sent instantly from the Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol Building in Washington, DC, to the B&O Railroad Depot in Baltimore, Maryland 1859: The chiming of Big Ben, the clock that towers over the Houses of Parliament in London. 1869: The transcontinental railroad, which linked the United States from coast to coast by rail. 1915: The Lusitania 1916: Norman Rockwell 1925: Darwin's theory of evolution 1927: Paris, France 1939: Cal Ripken Jr. 1953: Hillary and Norgay were the first people to climb to the top of Mt. Everest. 1954: Brown v. the Board of Education knocked down the doctrine of "separate but equal" by ruling that racial segregation in public educational facilities is inherently unequal and therefore unconstitutional. 1960: Birth control 1961: Alan B. Shepard 1970: Let It Be 1972: George Wallace 1994: Nelson Mandela 2005: Felt revealed that he was "Deep Throat," the Watergate whistleblower SOLERA DIAMOND VALLEY | MAY 2020 11 By Clare Mendez, Resident 1626: Indians agree to exchange $24 in cloth and buttons for this parcel of land. 1844: This inventor tapped out the first ever telegraph message: "What hath God wrought?" 1859: This sound was heard in the city of London for the first time. 1869: A golden spike was installed in Promontory Summit, Utah, to mark the completion of this transportation achievement. 1915: A torpedo from a German U-boat hit this British ocean liner off the coast of Ireland, killing nearly 1,200 passengers and crew. 1916: The cover of The Saturday Evening Post featured the first of more than three hundred cover illustrations by this artist. 1925: Substitute high school teacher John T. Scopes was arrested in Tennessee for teaching this subject. 1927: Aviator Charles Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, on the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Where did he hand almost thirty-four hours later? 1939: Lou Gehrig plays his 2,130th game, a baseball record that will last for 57 years. Who will break his record? 1953: Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal were the first humans to accomplish this remarkable achievement. 1954: The U.S. Supreme Court issued the landmark ruling Brown v. Board of Education. What was the issue at stake in that case? 1960: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the use of a drug called Envoid for this purpose — but only for married women. 1961: Forty-five million Americans watched this astronaut become America's first space traveler as he made a fifteen- minute flight aboard Freedom 7, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. 1970: This Beatles album will be their last release. Actually recorded in 1969. 1972: Authur Bremer, a Wisconsin man looking for fame and recognition, shot at this presidential candidate in a Maryland shopping mall. 1980: The World Health Organization announced that this devastating disease had been eradicated from the earth. (Something we hope to hear soon about the coronavirus). 1994: This former political prisoner was elected president of South Africa in that country's first fully democratic election. 2005: Former FBI official W. Mark Felt revealed to Vanity Fair magazine this secret, which he had held for more than three decades. may IN HISTORY ANSWERS

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