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History Events on April 24

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History Events on April 24

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Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.

#Easter_Rising

In 1916

In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

#Antiterrorism_and_Effective_Death_Penalty_Act_of_1996

In 1996

The Franck-Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.

#Franck-Hertz_experiment

In 1914

World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.

#World_War_I

In 1918

Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.

#Suez_Crisis

In 1957

Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".

#Joshua_Slocum

In 1895

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 the crew of the sunken Endurance.

#Ernest_Shackleton

In 1916

Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.

#Battle_of_Mühlberg

In 1547

Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.

#Dominican_Republic

In 1965

Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.

#Princess_Alexandra,_The_Honourable_Lady_Ogilvy

In 1963

Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.

#Operation_Eagle_Claw

In 1980

Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.

#Mary,_Queen_of_Scots

In 1558

The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".

#Library_of_Congress

In 1800

The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.

#The_Gambia

In 1970

The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.

#Imperial_Wireless_Chain

In 1922

World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.

#Special_Boat_Service

In 1944

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".

#Vietnam_War

In 1967

The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.

#Woolworth_Building

In 1913

The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.

#Economic_sanctions

In 2004

Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).

#Thutmose_III

In 1479 BC

The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.

#Thirteen_Colonies

In 1704

Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

#Winston_Churchill

In 1953

STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

#STS-31

In 1990

American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.

#Sharpshooter

In 1885

Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.

#Astronaut

In 1967

The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

#Deportation_of_Armenian_intellectuals_on_24_April_1915

In 1915

The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.

#Bandung_Conference

In 1955

Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.

#Nazi_Germany

In 1933

Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.

#Gruinard_Island

In 1990

Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.

In 2013

A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.

In 2013

Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

In 2005

An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.

In 1993

Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.

In 1932

The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.

In 1926

Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.

In 1877

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