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A Look Back This Week... On May 28, 1539 , Hernando de Soto landed in Florida ... May 25, 1787 , the Constitutional convention opened in Philadelphia with George Washington presiding ... May 24, 1844 , inventor Samuel F.B. Morse sent the first message over the first telegraph line from Washington to Baltimore: “What hath God wrought!” ... May 23, 1846 , Mexico declared war on the U.S. ... May 26, 1865, the last Confederate troops surrendered ... May 24, 1883 , the Brooklyn Bridge opened in New York City ... May 29, 1932 , World War I veterans launched a Bonus March on Washington, D.C., demanding that Congress pay their bonuses in full ... May 27, 1935 , the National Industrial Recovery Act was struck down by the Supreme Court ... May 27, 1943, war contractors were barred from practicing racial discrimination ... May 28, 1996 , James and Susan McDougal were convicted of fraud and conspiracy in the Whitewater case ... May 25, 1999 , one New York City police officer pleaded guilty on six charges in connection with the 1997 torture and sodomizing of Haitian immigrant Abner Louima in a police station ... May 24, 2001 , Senator Jim Jeffords (Vt.) announced that he was leaving the Republican Party to become an Independent; his defection gave Democrats control of the Senate ... May 26, 2001 , Congress approved a $1.35 million tax cut spread over 10 years ... May 27, 2002 , on Memorial Day in the U.S., President Bush visited the Normandy battlefield ... May 28, 2002 , President Bush met in the Vatican with Pope John Paul II. © 2005 DBR Media, Inc.
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