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On this day in . . .
• 1626, Peter Minuit buys Manhattan or 60 guilders, which has traditionally been said to be the equivalent of $24
• 1689, the English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants. Roman Catholics are intentionally excluded
• 1830, the first revenue trains in the United States begin service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad between Baltimore, Maryland and Ellicott's Mills, Maryland
• 1844, Samuel F. B. Morse sends the message "What hath G0d wrought" (a Bible quotation, Numbers 23:23) from the Old Supreme Court Chamber in the United States Capitol to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore
• 1883, the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic after 14 years of construction
• 1935, the first night game in Major League Baseball history is played in Cincinnati, Ohio, with the Cincinnati Reds beating the Philadelphia Phillies 2-1 at Crosley Field
• 1940, Igor Sikorsky performs the first successful single-rotor helicopter flight. His configuration is used by most helicopters today
• 1948, during the Arab-Israeli War: Egypt captures the Israeli kibbutz of Yad Mordechai, but the five-day effort gives Israeli forces time to prepare enough to stop the Egyptian advance a week later
• 1967, Egypt imposes a blockade and siege of the Red Sea coast of Israel
• 1980, the International Court of Justice calls for the release of United States embassy hostages in Tehran, Iran. The hostages would not be freed until the following January
• 1983, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled private religious schools that practice racial discrimination are not eligible for church-related tax benefit
• 1987, 250,000 people jammed San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge on its 50th anniversary, temporarily flattening the arched span
• 1991, Israel conducts Operation Solomon, evacuating Ethiopian Jews to the Jewish State
• 1994, four men convicted of bombing the World Trade Center in New York in 1993 are each sentenced to 240 years in prison
• 2000, Israeli troops withdraw from southern Lebanon after 18 years. ALSO: The state of Maryland dismissed its wiretapping case against Linda Tripp after a judge disallowed most of Monica Lewinsky's testimony
• 2001, fifteen-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to climb to the top of Mount Everest
• 2002, Russia and the United States sign the Moscow Treaty, with both parties agreeing to limit their nuclear arsenal to 1700-2200 operationally deployed warheads each
• 2007, the U.S. Congress voted to increase the minimum wage for the first time in 10 years, going from $5.15 an hour to $7.25 over a three-year period
• 2009, space shuttle Atlantis and its seven astronauts returned to Earth, ending a 13-day mission to repair and enhance the Hubble Space Telescope
• 2010, the Supreme Court rejected the National Football League's request for broad antitrust law protection, saying that it must be considered 32 separate teams -- not one big business -- when selling branded items like jerseys and caps
• 2011, Egyptian authorities ordered former President Hosni Mubarak tried on charges of corruption and conspiracy in the deadly shooting of protesters who'd driven him from power
• 2013, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, addressing allegations against him, said, "I do not use crack cocaine, nor am I an addict of crack cocaine."
• 2016, Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump each won primaries in Washington state. Protests outside a Donald Trump rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, turned violent as demonstrators threw burning T-shirts, plastic bottles and other items at police officers, overturned trash cans and knocked down barricades
[ I N S I G H T ]
Mark Steyn: 'Dangerous Woman' Meets Dangerous Man
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Brian Fung: The Supreme Court's big ruling on 'patent trolls' will rock businesses everywhere
L. Brent Bozell III: Roger Ailes Ruined Monica Lewinsky?
Charles Hurt: The fate of the U.S. rests on Trump's choice of adjectives?
Michelle Malkin: The Forgotten Slaughters of the Innocents
John Stossel: Times' Green Baloney
Byron York: At this rate, it won't matter if Trump colluded with Russia
Jonah Goldberg: Trump 's warm welcome in Middle East is no surprise
Walter Williams: How to Live in Peace
• Dry Bones by Ya'akov Kirschen
• Mallard Filmore