Today's 24 May Fun Facts in History

1595 Nomenclator of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library
1830 "Mary Had A Little Lamb" by Sarah Josepha Hale is first published by Boston firm Marsh, Capen & Lyon
1830 First regular passenger rail service on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad line features horse-drawn railcars connecting Baltimore to Ellicott's Mills

1st Telegraph Message

1844 Samuel Morse taps out "What hath God wrought" in the world's first telegraph message

1890 Geo Train and Sam Wall circumnavigate the world in a record 67 days, from Tacoma to Tacoma
1899 First auto repair shop opens in Boston
1931 The first air-conditioned train is introduced on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
1935 First Major League night baseball game, Reds beat Philadelphia 2-1 in Cincinnati

1964 Longest home run, 471 feet, at Baltimore Memorial Stadium by Harmon Killebrew of the Minnesota Twins

1976 In the Judgment of Paris, wine testers rate wines from California higher than their French counterparts, challenging the notion of France being the foremost producer of the world's best wines

1993 Star Trek episode "Second Chances" airs, guest-starring Mae Jemison, the first real-life astronaut to appear on the show

2001 Fifteen-year-old Sherpa Temba Tsheri becomes the youngest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest
2013 Popular game "Flappy Bird" is released on the App Store for iOS and later becomes the most downloaded free game in the App Store, during which period creator Dong Nguyen earns $50,000 a day
2018 World's largest cat-proof fence (44 km / 27.3 miles) completed at Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary, central Australia to protect endangered species
2020 Millions of cicadas in a once in 17-year event about to emerge from the earth in the US south posing crop danger and noise issues, according to scientists from Virginia Tech
2023 Test for a possible alien transmission to earth to see if humans can decode it, sent from ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, the spacecraft orbiting Mars [1]