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Apr 24, 1916: Easter Rebellion begins
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
Apr 24, 1940: Britain begins its evacuation of Greece in Operation Demon
On this day in 1940, British forces, along with Australian, New Zealand, and Polish troops, begin to withdraw from Greece in light of the Greek army's surrender to the Axis invaders. A total of 50,732 men are evacuated quickly over a six-day period, leaving behind weapons, trucks, and aircraft.
Apr 24, 1800: Library of Congress established
President John Adams approves legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress," thus establishing the Library of Congress. The first books, ordered from London, arrived in 1801 and were stored in the U.S. Capitol, the library's first home. The first library catalog, dated April 1802, listed 964 volumes and nine maps. Twelve years later, the British army invaded the city of Washington and burned the Capitol, including the then 3,000-volume Library of Congress.
Former president Thomas Jefferson, who advocated the expansion of the library during his two terms in office, responded to the loss by selling his personal library, the largest and finest in the country, to Congress to "recommence" the library. The purchase of Jefferson's 6,487 volumes was approved in the next year, and a professional librarian, George Watterston, was hired to replace the House clerks in the administration of the library. In 1851, a second major fire at the library destroyed about two-thirds of its 55,000 volumes, including two-thirds of the Thomas Jefferson library. Congress responded quickly and generously to the disaster, and within a few years a majority of the lost books were replaced.
After the Civil War, the collection was greatly expanded, and by the 20th century the Library of Congress had become the de facto national library of the United States and one of the largest in the world. Today, the collection, housed in three enormous buildings in Washington, contains more than 17 million books, as well as millions of maps, manuscripts, photographs, films, audio and video recordings, prints, and drawings.
Apr 24, 1967: Westmoreland makes controversial remarks
At a news conference in Washington, Gen. William Westmoreland, senior U.S. commander in South Vietnam, causes controversy by saying 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." Though he said that, "Ninety-five percent of the people were behind the United States effort in Vietnam," he asserted that the American soldiers in Vietnam were "dismayed, and so am I, by recent unpatriotic acts at home." This criticism of the antiwar movement was not received well by many in and out of the antiwar movement, who believed it was both their right and responsibility to speak out against the war.
Here's a more detailed look at events that transpired on this date throughout history:
1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt,
although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low
Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
1184 BC - The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse
(traditional date).
858 - Nicholas 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
1547 - Battle of Muhlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F
the Brave
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 establishes with $5,000
allocation
1801 - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die
Jahreszeiten"
1823 - Eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique"
premieres in Paris
1833 - Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent 1st 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 - 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 - National Medical Association of Black physicians
organizes (Atlanta)
1888 - Eastman Kodak forms
1891 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
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 - 1st reporter, William Price (Wash Star), assigned to
White House
1898 - US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong
to Philippines
1898 - Spanish-American War: Spain delares war after
rejecting 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, Chic beats Cleve 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
Chocolate Tycoon Milton S. HersheyChocolate Tycoon Milton S.
Hershey 1907 - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use
of his employees, is opened.
1908 - Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel
across US by car, they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
1909 - Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m
3-legged race in 11 seconds
1910 - German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
1913 - Skyscraper, the 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)
1915 - Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League),
2-0
1916 - Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation
begins
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.
1917 - Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at
Fenway
1920 - British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect
(lasts 28 years)
1920 - Polish troops attack Ukraine
1921 - 1st municipal elections for men & women in
Belgium
1923 - General harbor strike begins in NYC
1925 - 88°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland
in April
1928 - Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1929 - 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1929 - Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1932 - German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
1933 - 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9
inn (Dick Bartell)
1938 - Lindenheuvel soccer team forms
1941 - British army begins evacuation of Greece
1941 - Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1944 - 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the
Hump"
1944 - RAF bombs Munich
1944 - United Negro College Fund incorporates
1945 - Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd
baseball commissioner
1945 - Delegates of 46 countries gather in SF (to discuss
UN)
1946 - 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy,
Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, & McGinnity are named to Hall of
Fame
1949 - 3rd Tony Awards: Death of a Salesman & Kiss Me
Kate win
1950 - "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC
for 320 performances
1950 - Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
1950 - Pres Harry Truman denies there are communists in US
government
1950 - Jordan formally annexes the West Bank
1951 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf
Invitational Open
Soldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston
ChurchillSoldier, Author and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1953 -
Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1954 - 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in
Indochina
1954 - Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations
1954 - WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, PA (CBS) begins
broadcasting
1955 - Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self
determination, ends
1955 - Gaullists lose elections in France
1955 - KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins
broadcasting
1955 - KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS)
begins broadcasting
1956 - AL ump Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a
regular season game
1957 - Chic Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning
1958 - Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
1959 - Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut
Flier)
1959 - WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins
broadcasting
1960 - 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win
1960 - Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
1960 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
1960 - Record 4 grand slams hit today
US President John F. KennedyUS President John F. Kennedy
1961 - JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1961 - Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is
raised
1961 - The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged.
1962 - 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
1962 - MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to
MA
1962 - Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game
1963 - 17th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers,
4 games to 2
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires
copyright treaty.
1965 - "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden
NYC after 192 perfs
1965 - Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican
Republic
1965 - NY Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager
1966 - Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games
(17 in Milwaukee)
1966 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
1967 - 21st NBA Championship: Phila 76ers beat SF Warriors,
4 games to 2
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."
1968 - ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas
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
Musician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartneyMusician
& member of the Beatles Paul McCartney 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
1969 - Car firm British Leyland launch the Austin Maxi in
Oporto Portugal
1970 - China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song
"East is Red"
1970 - Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth
1970 - Senegal adopts constitution
1971 - "Frank Merriwell" opens and closes at
Longacre Theater NYC (1 performance only)
1971 - Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
1974 - Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
1974 - NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers
1975 - Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3
1975 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf
Tournament
1978 - Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time
he has 15 in game
1979 - Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
1980 - US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran,
fails, 8 die
1981 - Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than
any other jockey
1981 - IBM-PC computer introduced
1981 - San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA
reg game record
1981 - US ends grain embargo against USSR
1982 - 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in
West Germany
1982 - Cards win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Phillies
1982 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won
by Mike Durbin
1983 - "Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater NYC for
73 performances
1983 - Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
1983 - Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
1984 - Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley
Cup penalty shot
1985 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for
"Yin"
Radio shock jock Howard SternRadio shock jock Howard Stern
1987 - Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza NYC
1988 - Rosie Jones wins LPGA USX Golf Classic
1989 - 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China
1989 - Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the
Block Day"
1990 - Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa"
premieres in Dublin
1990 - Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to
6 felonies
1990 - US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10)
launches into orbit
1990 - West & East Germany agree to merge currency &
economies on July 1st
1990 - Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared
free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1991 - 26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks
1991 - Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of
Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918.
1992 - "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater
NYC for 108 performances
1992 - George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball
1992 - Vinson Pike fined £1000 for distributing obscene
computer pictures
1993 - The IRA explodes a 1000kg car bomb in Bishopsgate,
London, killing a news photographer and injuring 44 others
New York Yankees Owner George SteinbrennerNew York Yankees
Owner George Steinbrenner 1993 - Firestone World Bowling Tournament of
Champions won by George Branham
1994 - "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for
73 performances
1994 - "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater
NYC after 41 performances
1994 - Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential
election
1994 - Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
1994 - David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the
NBA - 71
1994 - NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs
1995 - Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000
in taxes
1995 - Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98
1995 - Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing
Gilbert B Murray
1996 - "Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore"
opens at Belasco for 12 perf
1996 - 31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain
1996 - Highest scoring baseball game in 17 years - Twins 24,
Tigers 11
1997 - "Steel Peer" opens at Richard Rodgers
Theater NYC for 76 performances
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.
265th Pope Benedict
XVI265th Pope Benedict XVI 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.
2013 - 33 people are killed and 115 are injured after a
magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Jalalabad, Afghanistan
2013 - 256 people are killed and 1,000 are injured after a
building collapses Savar Upazila, Bangladesh
1519 - Envoys of Montezuma II attended the first Easter mass in Central America. 1547 - Charles V's troops defeated the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the battle of Muhlburg. 1558 - Mary, Queen of Scotland, married the French dauphin, Francis. 1800 - The Library of Congress was established with a $5,000 allocation. 1805 - The U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli. 1833 - A patent was granted for first soda fountain. 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. 1884 - Otto von Bismarck cabled Cape Town that South Africa was now a German colony. 1889 - The Edison General Electric Company was organized. 1897 - William Price became the first to be named White House news reporter. 1898 - Spain declared war on the U.S., rejecting America's ultimatum for Spain to withdraw from Cuba. 1915 - During World War I, the Ottoman Turkish Empire began the mass deportation of Armenians. 1916 - Irish nationalist launched the Easter Rebellion against British occupation forces. They were overtaken several days later. 1944 - The first B-29 arrived in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas. 1952 - Raymond Burr made his TV acting debut on the "Gruen Guild Playhouse" in an episode titled, "The Tiger." 1953 - Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. 1955 - "X-Minus One," a science fiction show, was first heard for the first time on NBC radio. 1961 - Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers struck out 18 batters becoming the first major-league pitcher to do so on two different occasions. 1961 - U.S. President Kennedy accepted "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. 1962 - MIT sent a TV signal by satellite for the first time. 1967 - Soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov died when his craft crashed with a tangled parachute. 1967 - The newest Greek regime banned miniskirts. 1970 - The People's Republic of China launched its first satellite. 1973 - Albert Sabin reported that herpesviruses were factors in nine kinds of cancer. 1974 - David Bowie released "Diamond Dogs." 1989 - Thousands of students began striking in Beijing. 1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL. It was carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope. 1997 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention. The global treaty banned the development, production, storage and use of chemical weapons. 2000 - ABC-TV aired the TV movie "The Three Stooges." 2003 - A U.S. official reported the North Korea had claimed to have nuclear weapons.
1800 Library of Congress was established. 1898 Spain declared war on the U.S.. 1915 Turks began deportation of Armenians that led to the massacre of between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians. 1916 The Easter Rebellion begins in Dublin, Ireland. Although unsuccessful, the uprising was an important symbolic event leading to the establishment of the Republic of Ireland. 1953 Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. 1990 The shuttle Discovery blasted off with the Hubble Space Telescope.
The following links are to web sites that were used to complete this blog entry:
http://www.historyorb.com/today/events.php
http://on-this-day.com/onthisday/thedays/alldays/apr24.htm
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history
http://www.infoplease.com/dayinhistory
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
1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
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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