TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – APRIL 24
1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
1519 Envoys of Montezuma II attend the first Easter mass in Central America.
1558 Mary, Queen of Scotland, marries the French dauphin, Francis.
1800 The Library of Congress is established in Washington, D.C. with a $5,000 allocation.
1833 A patent is granted for the first soda fountain.
1877 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-78: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
1884 Otto von Bismarck cables Cape Town, South Africa that it is now a German colony.
1898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1915 Turks of the Ottoman Empire begin massacring the Armenian minority in their country.
1916 Irish nationalists launch the Easter Uprising against British occupation.
1923 Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers
1948 The Berlin airlift begins to relieve the surrounded city.
1961 President John Kennedy accepts “sole responsibility” for the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.
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.”
1980 A rescue attempt of the U.S. hostages held in Iran fails when a plane collides with a helicopter in the Iranian desert.
1981 IBM-PC computer introduced
1990 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
1990 The Hubble Space Telescope is launched into Earth orbit
1995 Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
2005 Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as Pope Benedict XVI
2013 1129 people die in Bangladesh in the worst building collapse disaster in modern history
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