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709Apr 24Wilfried (~76), bishop of York, died.
729Apr 24Egbertus (89), English bishop, St. Egbert, died in Iona.
858Apr 24Nicholas I succeeded Benedict III as the Catholic Pope.
1061Apr 24Halley’s Comet inspired an English monk to predict that England would be destroyed.
1077Apr 24Geza I, King of Hungary (1074-7), died.
1288Apr 24Jews of Yroyes France were accused of ritual murder.
1519Apr 24Envoys of Montezuma II attended the first Easter mass in Central America.
1538Apr 24Guglielmo Gonzaga, composer, was born.
1547Apr 24Charles V’s troops defeated the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the battle of Muhlburg.
1558Apr 24Mary, Queen of Scotland, married the French dauphin, Francis.
1570Apr 24Spanish troops battled followers of Sultan Suleiman.
1620Apr 24John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography, was born.
1704Apr 24The Boston News-Letter was established, first successful newspaper in U.S.
1706Apr 24Giovanni Battista Martini, composer (Padre Martini), was born.
1743Apr 24Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, was born.
1766Apr 24Robert Bailey Thomas, founder of the Farmer’s Almanac, was born.
1769Apr 24Arthur Wellesley, general, Duke of Wellington, was born.
1778Apr 24US Ranger Captain John Paul Jones captured the British ship Drake.
1779Apr 24Mr. H. Sykes, an English optician living in Paris, wrote to Ben Franklin and explained a delay in sending an order for special spectacles, complaining that he was having difficulty making them. Franklin is believed to have ordered his first pair of bifocals from Sykes.
1792Apr 24Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, an officer stationed in Strasbourg, composed “La Marseillaise,” which later became the national anthem of France.
1800Apr 24Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. with a $5,000 allocation
1801Apr 24The 1st performance of Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons).”
1815Apr 24Anthony Trollope (d.1882), British novelist, was born. His 47 novels included “The American Senator.” His 33rd novel was “The Way We Live Now.” “Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.” An essay by Cynthia Ozick on the novel is in her 1996 book “Fame and Folly.”
1833Apr 24A patent was granted for the first soda fountain.
1850Apr 24Louis Alexandre Piccinni (70), composer, died.
1856Apr 24Henri Philippe Pétain, French Marshall, was born. He was known as the ‘hero of Verdun’ but collaborated with the Nazis after the fall of France in 1940 and convicted of treason in 1945. Petain was executed in 1951.
1863Apr 24Skirmish at Okolona, Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson’s Raid)
1867Apr 24Fannie Thomas, oldest known American (113 years, 273 days at death), was born.
1872Apr 24Mt. Vesuvius erupted.
1874Apr 24John Russell Pope, US architect (Jefferson Memorial), was born.
1877Apr 24Federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North’s post-Civil War rule in the South.
1883Apr 24Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik), was born.
1884Apr 24Otto von Bismarck cabled Cape Town that South Africa had become a German colony.
1885Apr 24Metis rebels won a major victory over Canadian troops at Fish Creek, Saskatchewan. The troops had been shipped to the region by way of the new Canadian Pacific Railway.
1888Apr 24Eastman Kodak was formed. The company produced the Kodak Camera: “You press the button ”“ we do the rest.”
1891Apr 24Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure “Final Problem.”
1895Apr 24S. Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal, people’s commissioner, was born.
1898Apr 24Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America’s ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
1900Apr 24Elizabeth Goudge, English author, was born.
1904Apr 24Willem de Kooning (d.1997), abstract impressionist artist, was born in Rotterdam.
1905Apr 24Robert Penn Warren, first U.S. poet laureate, was born.
1906Apr 24William Joyce was born. He was the British traitor, who during World War II gave anti-British broadcasts known as ‘Lord Haw-Haw.’
1915Apr 24Turkey said Armenians had sided with Russia and issued a deportation order for the mass deportation of Armenians. Armenian organizations in Istanbul were closed and 235 members were arrested for treason. Turkish police arrested some 800 of the most prominent Armenians in Constantinople, took them into the hinterlands and shot them. With that the terror spread through “Turkish Armenia” spearheaded by the “Special Organization” of soldiers of the Turkish leader Enver. In 2006 Taner Akcam authored “A Shameful Act: The Armenian Genocide and the Question of Turkish Responsibility.”
1916Apr 24In “Easter” William Butler Yeats wrote: “All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.”
1920Apr 24British Mandate over Palestine went into effect and lasted for 28 years. The British organized a police force with some 3,000 British, Arab and Jewish officers.
1923Apr 24Colonel Jacob Schick patented Schick razors.
1928Apr 24The fathometer, used to measure underwater depth, was patented.
1932Apr 24In German national elections the NSDAP/NAZI won 36.3% in Prussia.
1934Apr 24Shirley MacLaine, actress, mystic (Irma la Douce), was born in Richmond, Va.
1941Apr 24British army began the evacuation of Greece.
1942Apr 24Barbra Streisand, singer, actress, was born in Brooklyn, NY.
1944Apr 24The first B-29 arrived in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas. The phrase “flying the hump” originated during World War II when Allied transport planes flew dangerous missions over the Himalayan Mountains in order to provide China with supplies needed to fight the Japanese.
1949Apr 24In the 3rd Tony Awards: “Death of a Salesman” and “Kiss Me Kate” won.
1950Apr 24“Peter Pan” opened at Imperial Theater in NYC for 320 performances.
1953Apr 24British statesman Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace.
1960Apr 24In the 14th Tony Awards: “Miracle Worker” and “Fiorello” won.
1961Apr 24President Kennedy accepted “sole responsibility” following Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.
1962Apr 24The Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal, between Camp Parks, Ca., and Westford, Mass.
1967Apr 24Frank Overton (b.1918), American film and TV actor, died. His films included “The Dark At the Top of the Stairs” (1960).
1968Apr 24Leftist students at Columbia University in New York City began a weeklong occupation of several campus buildings in protest over the Vietnam War [See Apr 23].
1970Apr 24China launched its 1st satellite, known as China 1 or Mao 1, to orbit on a Long March rocket. It kept transmitting a song, “The East is Red.” China became the fifth country to launch a satellite into space, sending up the Dongfanghong-1, which means “The East is Red.”
1972Apr 24Natalie Clifford Barney (b.1876), lesbian writer and US expatriate, died in Paris. In 2002 Suzanne Rodriguez authored “Wild Heart, A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney’s Journey From Victorian America to the Literary Salons of Paris.”
1975Apr 24Hanna Krabbe (b.1945), a German Red Army faction guerrilla, took part in a Baader-Meinhof gang attack on the German embassy in Stockholm in which two German diplomats died. German chancellor Helmut Schmidt approved the storming of the building by Swedish police. Krabbe was arrested and sentenced to 21 years confinement and was released in 1996.
1979Apr 24The hit song “Georgia on My Mind,” written in 1930 with lyrics by Stuart Gorrell and music by Hoagy Carmichael, was declared the state song of Georgia. Georgia-born singer Ray Charles (1930-2004) made the song famous.
1980Apr 24An American assault team held 44 Iranians hostage for about 3 hours when their bus stumbled upon the remote desert site. The failed operation was commanded by Colonel Charles Beckwith, founder of the US Delta Force. The mission resulted in the deaths of 8 US servicemen. The US hostage rescue failed when a plane collided with a helicopter in Iran. The 1996 Iranian film: “Sandstorm” depicting the event was set for release in Feb, 1997.
1981Apr 24The US ended a 16-month grain embargo against the USSR.
1986Apr 24Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson (b.6/19/1896), the Duchess of Windsor, for whom King Edward VIII gave up the British throne, died in Paris at age 89. Wallis Simpson was King Edward VIII’s wife. In the early 1950s Simpson engaged in an affair with playboy Jimmy Donahue. In 2000 Christopher Wilson authored “Dancing with the Devil: The Windsors and Jimmy Donahue.”
1987Apr 24In Greece 18 people, including 12 US military personnel, were injured when a roadside bomb exploded in the port of Piraeus; the guerrilla group November 17 claimed responsibility. In 2003 Dimitris Angelopoulos testified that he drove a truck in the bus bombing.
1988Apr 24Three sailors were killed and 22 injured when fire broke out aboard the submarine USS Bonefish off the Florida coast.
1989Apr 24President Bush led a memorial service at the Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia for the 47 sailors killed in a gun-turret explosion aboard the USS Iowa.
1990Apr 24Security law violator Michael Milken pleaded guilty to 6 felonies.
1991Apr 24A Kurdish rebel leader announced the guerrillas had reached an agreement in principle with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to end the Kurds’ two-week rebellion.
 1992Apr 24President Bush and Democratic challenger Bill Clinton made long-distance back-to-back appearances via satellite hookups before the National Association of Hispanic Journalists meeting in Albuquerque, N.M.
1993Apr 24The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb in London’s financial district. It killed a photographer and injured 44 people and cost millions of dollars’ worth of damage.
1994Apr 24Bosnian Serbs, threatened with NATO air strikes, grudgingly gave up their three-week assault on Gorazde, burning houses and blowing up a water treatment plant as they withdrew.
1995Apr 24Dow Jones Index hit a record 4303.98.
1996Apr 24Negotiators for Congress and the White House agreed on a permanent budget for fiscal year 1996.
1997Apr 24The trial of Timothy McVeigh, prime suspect of the bombing of the Oklahoma City federal building, began in Denver. The prosecution and defense presented opening statements.
1998 Apr 24Re Western Sahara: It was reported that the referendum on independence would be postponed until 1999 due to difficulties in counting eligible voters.
 1999Apr 24It was reported that the details of US sorties flown in Yugoslavia were not being shared with NATO allies in order to prevent leaks from compromising the missions.
2000Apr 24Concerned about the disappearance of a laptop computer with highly sensitive documents, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced a five-point plan to help guard against such lapses in the future.
2001Apr 24The Yugoslav army was reported to have charged 183 soldiers with crimes committed during the war in Kosovo.
2002Apr 24On the 10th anniversary of “Take Our Daughters to Work Day,” the Ms. Foundation announced that boys would be included next year.
2003Apr 24A new Cesar Chavez stamp was issued by the US postal service.
2004Apr 24In Los Angeles, Vitali Klitschko stopped Corrie Sanders late in the eighth round to win the WBC heavyweight title vacated by the retirement of Lennox Lewis.
2005Apr 24An unusual spring storm dumped nearly 2 feet of wet snow on parts of the Midwest and Appalachians, covering newly sprouting plants, snapping power lines and taking a bite out of baseball. 80,000 in the Cleveland area lost their electricity.
2006Apr 24Speaking in Irvine, Calif., President Bush said those calling for massive deportation of the estimated 11 million foreigners living illegally in the United States were not being realistic.
2007Apr 24In a harsh exchange, Vice President Dick Cheney accused Democratic leader Harry Reid of personally pursuing a defeatist strategy in Iraq to win votes at home, a charge Reid dismissed as President Bush’s “attack dog” lashing out.
2008Apr 24It was reported that the US military’s health insurance program has been swindled out of more than $100 million over the past decade in bogus claims filed in the Philippines, where US bases were closed in 1992.
2009Apr 24US federal regulators privately began telling the nation’s 19 largest financial institutions how well they performed in stress tests to assess their soundness. The results were scheduled for public release on May 4.
2010Apr 24In Mississippi a devastating tornado sliced through the state killing 10 people including 3 children. Tornadoes also were reported in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama with 2 deaths in Alabama.
2011Apr 24In New Mexico Margaret Salcedo (48) was mauled to death by a pack of four pit bulls in the town of Truth or Consequences.
2012Apr 24Mitt Romney swept five GOP primaries, including Pennsylvania and New York, and solidified his lead in the race to reach the 1,144 delegates necessary to claim the GOP nomination.
2013Apr 24In Illinois Rick O. Smith, the nephew of a small-town mayor, shot and killed 5 people in a Manchester home before he was shot and killed in a chase by police.
2014Apr 24US postal workers in cities large and small rallied against a US Postal service pilot program to open counters in Staples stores.
Source: Timelines of History http://www.timelinesdb.com      

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