Today in History - History - May 24th

1775John Hancock is unanimously elected President of the Continental Congress

1992Pat Bradley wins J C Penney/LPGA Skins Game Golf Tournament

1997Actor Tim Allen arrested for drunk driving in Mich

1915Thomas Edison invents telescribe to record telephone conversations

1890Caprivi succeeds Bismarck as chancellor of Germany

1940Hitler affirms Gen von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"

1989Weird Al Yankovic records his UHF soundtrack

1926Paavo Nurmi runs world record 3000 m (8:25.4)

1943Admiral Donitz stops U-boat in Atlantic Ocean

1968French President Charles de Gaulle proposes referendum & students set fire to Paris bourse

1955Rosanne Cash, Memphis Tn, country singer (Seven Year Ache, I Wonder)

1965John C. Reilly, Chicago, Illinois, American actor (Chicago, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story)

1917Writer Walter Lippmann (27) weds Faye Albertson

1986Country Singer Garth Brooks marries Sandy

2003Oscar winning-actress Kate Winslet (27) weds director Sam Mendes (36) in Anguilla Island

2014Rapper and record producer Kanye West (36) weds model Kim Kardashian (33) at Fort di Belvedere in Florence, Italy

1879William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist (Liberator), dies at 73

1974Duke Ellington, American musician, dies of cancer at 75

1966Jim Barnes, English golfing pioneer (4 major wins), dies at 80

1543Nicolas Copernicus, astronomer, dies in Poland aged 70