Once again, it should be reiterated, that this does not pretend to be a very extensive history of what happened on this day (nor is it the most original - the links can be found down below). If you know something that I am missing, by all means, shoot me an email or leave a comment, and let me know!
Also once again, I thought that the History Channel's website had some information on the thing that they particularly focused on that occurred on this date in history, so it has been added here, with the link also found on the bottom. Enjoy!
On this day in 1916, on Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule. Assisted by militant Irish socialists under James Connolly, Pearse and his fellow Republicans rioted and attacked British provincial government headquarters across Dublin and seized the Irish capital's General Post Office. Following these successes, they proclaimed the independence of Ireland, which had been under the repressive thumb of the United Kingdom for centuries, and by the next morning were in control of much of the city. Later that day, however, British authorities launched a counteroffensive, and by April 29 the uprising had been crushed. Nevertheless, the Easter Rebellion is considered a significant marker on the road to establishing an independent Irish republic.
Following the uprising, Pearse and 14 other nationalist leaders were executed for their participation and held up as martyrs by many in Ireland. There was little love lost among most Irish people for the British, who had enacted a series of harsh anti-Catholic restrictions, the Penal Laws, in the 18th century, and then let 1.5 million Irish starve during the Potato Famine of 1845-1848. Armed protest continued after the Easter Rebellion and in 1921, 26 of Ireland's 32 counties won independence with the declaration of the Irish Free State. The Free State became an independent republic in 1949. However, six northeastern counties of the Emerald Isle remained part of the United Kingdom, prompting some nationalists to reorganize themselves into the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to continue their struggle for full Irish independence.
In the late 1960s, influenced in part by the U.S. civil rights movement, Catholics in Northern Ireland, long discriminated against by British policies that favored Irish Protestants, advocated for justice. Civil unrest broke out between Catholics and Protestants in the region and the violence escalated as the pro-Catholic IRA battled British troops. An ongoing series of terrorist bombings and attacks ensued in a drawn-out conflict that came to be known as "The Troubles." Peace talks eventually took place throughout the mid- to late 1990s, but a permanent end to the violence remained elusive. Finally, in July 2005, the IRA announced its members would give up all their weapons and pursue the group's objectives solely through peaceful means. By the fall of 2006, the Independent Monitoring Commission reported that the IRA's military campaign to end British rule was over
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/easter-rebellion-begins
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1184 BC - The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date). 858 - Nicolaas I succeeds Benedict III as pope
1066 - Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed
1185 - Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet
1288 - Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder 1311 - Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
1364 - Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht 1524 - Duke of Bourbon drives admiral Bonnivet out of Milan
1519 - Envoys of Montezuma II attended the first Easter mass in Central America.
1547 - Battle of Muhlberg: Emperor Karel V's troops defeated the Protestant League of Schmalkalden, led by ruler Johan F the Brave.
1558 - Mary, Queen of Scotland, married the French dauphin, Francis.
1570 - Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman
1596 - Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
1704 - "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in US, forms
1792 - "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
1800 - Library of Congress was established with $5,000 allocation
1801 - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"
1805 - The U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli.
1823 - Eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique," premieres in Paris
1833 - Jacob Evert and George Dulty were granted a patent for first soda fountain.
1863 - Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid)
1865 - Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)
1867 - Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars
1872 - Volcano Vesuvius erupts 1877 - Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
1877 - Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire.
1877 - In the U.S., federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans. This was the end to the North's post-Civil War rule in the South.
1877 - Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1880 - Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1883 - 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
1884 - Otto von Bismarck cabled Cape Town that South Africa was now a German colony.
1884 - National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
1888 - Eastman Kodak forms 1891 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
1889 - The Edison General Electric Company was organized.
1894 - French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
1894 - Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers
1895 - Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
1897 - William Price became the first to be named White House news reporter.
1898 - US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines
1898 - The Spanish-American War begins when Spain delares war after rejecting a US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1899 - Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid
1900 - Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
1901 - 1st AL game, Chicago beats the Cleveland Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out
1905 - 1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey v Gentlemen (18 & 28) 1905 - Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3
1907 - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
1908 - Mr and Mrs Jacob Murdock become first to travel across US by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard and arrive in New York City in 32days,5 hours, and 25 minutes.
1913 - The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City is opened.
1915 - German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
1915 - Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day). The Ottoman Turkish Empire began the mass deportation of Armenians, which ultimately led to the massacre of between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians.
1916 - Isish nationalists launch the Easter Rebellion against British occupation forces in Dublin, Ireland. Although unsuccessful (they were overtaken days later), the uprising was an important symbolic event leading to the establishment of the Republic of Ireland.
1916 - Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for ice-trapped ship Endurance.
1920 - British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
1920 - Polish troops attack Ukraine
1929 - First non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1929 - Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1932 - German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
1941 - British army begins evacuation of Greece
1941 - Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1944 - First Boeing B-29 arrived in China "over the Hump" of the Himalayas
1944 - RAF bombs Munich
1944 - United Negro College Fund incorporates
1945 - Delegates of 46 countries gather in San Francisco (to discuss the United Nations)
1948 - The Berlin airlift began to relieve the surrounded city.
1950 - Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
1950 - President Harry Truman denies there are communists in US government
1953 - Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1955 - Gaullists lose elections in France
1955 - KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting, and KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 - WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 - Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
1961 - American President Kennedy accepted "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
1961 - Vasa, the seventeenth century Swedish ship which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
1962 - MIT sent a TV signal by satellite for the first time.
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1965 - Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
1967 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
1967 - Soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov died when his craft crashed with a tangled parachute.
1968 - Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 - Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
1969 - Gen Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded
1969 - Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians
1969 - Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead
1969 - US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
1970 - China launches its first satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
1970 - Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth
1973 - Albert Sabin reported that herpesviruses were factors in nine kinds of cancer.
1981 - The IBM Personal Computer was introduced.
1989 - Thousands of students began striking in Beijing, China.
1990 - West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1st
1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL. It was carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.
1994 - Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
1997 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention. The global treaty banned the development, production, storage and use of chemical weapons.
2003 - A U.S. official reported the North Korea had claimed to have nuclear weapons.
2004 - The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
2006 - King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
2007 - Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
Here are the websites that I used much of the information provided to complete this blog entry:
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/apr24.htm
http://www.historyorb.com/day/april/24
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory/April-24
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/easter-rebellion-begins
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