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Events on the 24th of April in history

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24 Apr 0858 Nicolas I succeeds Benedict III as Catholic Pope
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24 Apr 1061 Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed
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24 Apr 1184 Traditional date of the fall of Troy.
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24 Apr 1185 Battle at Danoura Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet
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24 Apr 1288 Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder
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24 Apr 1311 General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
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24 Apr 1364 Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht
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24 Apr 1479 Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
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24 Apr 1524 Duke of Bourbon drives Admiral Bonnivet out of Milan
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24 Apr 1547 Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
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24 Apr 1547 Battle of M
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24 Apr 1558 Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown Prince Francois
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24 Apr 1558 Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
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24 Apr 1570 Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman
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24 Apr 1596 Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
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24 Apr 1704 "Boston News-Letter, " 1st successful newspaper in US, forms
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24 Apr 1704 The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
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24 Apr 1704 "Boston News-Letter", 1st successful newspaper in US, is established
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24 Apr 1762 Russia & Prussia signs peace treaty
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24 Apr 1792 "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
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24 Apr 1800 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".
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24 Apr 1800 Library of Congress is established with $5,000 allocation
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24 Apr 1801 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"
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24 Apr 1823 Eug
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24 Apr 1833 Jacob Evert and George Dulty patent soda fountain
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24 Apr 1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain
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24 Apr 1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain to Jacob Evert & George Dulty
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24 Apr 1854 Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"
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24 Apr 1863 Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham MS (Grierson's Raid)
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24 Apr 1865 Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (San Francisco)
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24 Apr 1867 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond VA streetcars
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24 Apr 1871 Opera "Aida" is produced (Cairo)
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24 Apr 1871 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Aida" is produced (Cairo)
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24 Apr 1872 Volcano Vesuvius erupts
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24 Apr 1877 Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
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24 Apr 1877 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
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24 Apr 1877 Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania
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24 Apr 1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
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24 Apr 1883 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
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24 Apr 1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta GA)
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24 Apr 1885 American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
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24 Apr 1888 Eastman Kodak forms
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24 Apr 1891 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
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24 Apr 1894 Philadelphia Phillies' Lave Cross hits for the cycle vs Brooklyn Dodgers
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24 Apr 1894 French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
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24 Apr 1895 Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
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24 Apr 1895 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
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24 Apr 1897 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), is assigned to White House
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24 Apr 1898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
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24 Apr 1898 US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines
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24 Apr 1899 Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid
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24 Apr 1900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
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24 Apr 1901 1st AL game, Chicago beats Cleveland Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out
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24 Apr 1901 1st American League game, Chicago White Sox beat Cleveland Indians 8-2, 3 other games rained out
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24 Apr 1904 The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
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24 Apr 1905 Senators execute a triple-play and beat Yankees 4-3
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24 Apr 1905 Washington Senators execute a triple-play & beat New York Yankees 4-3
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24 Apr 1905 1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey vs Gentlemen (18 & 28)
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24 Apr 1907 Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
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24 Apr 1908 Mr and Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car, they leave LA in a Packard and arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
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24 Apr 1908 Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become the 1st to travel across the US by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32 days-5 hours-25 minutes
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24 Apr 1909 Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100 meter 3-legged race in 11 seconds
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24 Apr 1910 German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
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24 Apr 1913 The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
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24 Apr 1914 The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
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24 Apr 1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day)
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24 Apr 1915 The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
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24 Apr 1915 Pittsburgh's Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0
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24 Apr 1915 German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
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24 Apr 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 the ice-trapped ship Endurance.
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24 Apr 1916 Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
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24 Apr 1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
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24 Apr 1917 Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway
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24 Apr 1918 First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
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24 Apr 1920 British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
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24 Apr 1920 Polish troops attack Ukraine
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24 Apr 1921 1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium
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24 Apr 1922 The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
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24 Apr 1923 In Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud's theories of the id, ego, and super-ego.
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24 Apr 1923 Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers
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24 Apr 1923 General harbor strike begins in New York NY
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24 Apr 1925 88
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24 Apr 1926 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.
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24 Apr 1928 Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
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24 Apr 1929 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
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24 Apr 1929 Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
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24 Apr 1932 Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
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24 Apr 1932 German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
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24 Apr 1933 Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
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24 Apr 1933 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 innings (Dick Bartell)
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24 Apr 1938 Lindenheuvel soccer team forms
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24 Apr 1941 British army begins evacuation of Greece
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24 Apr 1941 Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
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24 Apr 1942 Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
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24 Apr 1944 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
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24 Apr 1944 RAF bombs Munich
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24 Apr 1945 Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner
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24 Apr 1945 Delegates of 46 countries gather in SF (to discuss UN)
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24 Apr 1946 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, & McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame
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24 Apr 1949 3rd Tony Awards Death of a Salesman & Kiss Me Kate win
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24 Apr 1950 "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances
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24 Apr 1950 Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
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24 Apr 1950 President Harry Truman denies there are communists in US government
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24 Apr 1951 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open
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24 Apr 1953 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
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24 Apr 1954 Australia and the USSR break diplomatic relations
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24 Apr 1954 1st American, civilian pilot, P R Holden, wounded in Indochina
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24 Apr 1954 WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
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24 Apr 1955 Conference of Bandung against colonialism / for self determination, ends
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24 Apr 1955 The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
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24 Apr 1955 Gaullists lose elections in France
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24 Apr 1955 KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
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24 Apr 1955 KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
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24 Apr 1956 American League umpire Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game
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24 Apr 1957 The BBC first broadcast The Sky at Night presented by Patrick Moore
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24 Apr 1957 Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
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24 Apr 1957 Chicago Cub pitchers walk National League record 9 Reds in 5th inning
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24 Apr 1958 Lee Walls hits 3 homerunS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
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24 Apr 1959 Netherlands Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
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24 Apr 1959 WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC / ABC) begins broadcasting
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24 Apr 1960 14th Tony Awards Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win
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24 Apr 1960 Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
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24 Apr 1960 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
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24 Apr 1960 Record 4 grand slams hit today
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24 Apr 1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
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24 Apr 1961 The Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
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24 Apr 1962 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
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24 Apr 1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time California to Massachusetts
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24 Apr 1962 Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game
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24 Apr 1963 Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
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24 Apr 1963 Boston Celtics' Bob Cousy retires
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24 Apr 1963 17th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat Los Angeles Lakers, 4 games to 2
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24 Apr 1963 English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy
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24 Apr 1965 "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 performances
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24 Apr 1965 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.
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24 Apr 1965 Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
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24 Apr 1965 New York Mets' Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager
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24 Apr 1966 Atlanta Braves win National League-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee)
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24 Apr 1966 Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational
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24 Apr 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."
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24 Apr 1967 Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
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24 Apr 1967 21st NBA Championship Philadelphia 76ers beat San Francisco Warriors, 4 games to 2
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24 Apr 1968 Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
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24 Apr 1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University, New York NY
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24 Apr 1968 ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas
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24 Apr 1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
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24 Apr 1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to the rumours he is dead
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24 Apr 1969 General Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded
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24 Apr 1969 Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians
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24 Apr 1969 US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
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24 Apr 1970 China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
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24 Apr 1970 The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
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24 Apr 1970 The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
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24 Apr 1970 Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth
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24 Apr 1970 People's Rebublic of China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
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24 Apr 1970 Senegal adopts constitution
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24 Apr 1971 "Frank Merriwell" opens / closes at Longacre Theater NYC for 1 performance
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24 Apr 1971 Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
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24 Apr 1971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
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24 Apr 1974 NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers
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24 Apr 1974 Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
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24 Apr 1975 Penguins 1-Islanders 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3
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24 Apr 1975 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
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24 Apr 1977 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament
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24 Apr 1978 Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game
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24 Apr 1979 Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
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24 Apr 1980 Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
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24 Apr 1980 US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
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24 Apr 1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
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24 Apr 1981 San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record
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24 Apr 1981 IBM-PC computer introduced
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24 Apr 1981 US ends grain embargo against USSR
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24 Apr 1982 Cards win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Phillies
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24 Apr 1982 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany
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24 Apr 1982 St Louis Cardinals win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Philadelphia Phillies
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24 Apr 1983 "Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances
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24 Apr 1983 Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic
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24 Apr 1983 Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
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24 Apr 1984 Edmonton Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
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24 Apr 1985 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"
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24 Apr 1987 Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, New York City
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24 Apr 1988 Rosie Jones wins LPGA USX Golf Classic
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24 Apr 1989 Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
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24 Apr 1989 Tens of thousands of students strike in Beijing China
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24 Apr 1990 West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1st
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24 Apr 1990 Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
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24 Apr 1990 STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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24 Apr 1990 Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
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24 Apr 1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
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24 Apr 1990 Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa", premieres in Dublin
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24 Apr 1991 26th Academy of Country Music Awards Garth Brooks wins
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24 Apr 1992 "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 108 performances
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24 Apr 1992 "Man of La Mancha" with Sheena Easton opens at Marquis theater NYC for 108 performances
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24 Apr 1992 David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland
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24 Apr 1992 George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball
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24 Apr 1992 Vinson Pike fined
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24 Apr 1993 An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
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24 Apr 1993 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1
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24 Apr 1993 ABC news analyst Jeff Greenfield weds Karen Gannett
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24 Apr 1993 Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham
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24 Apr 1994 "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances
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24 Apr 1994 "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
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24 Apr 1994 Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32)
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24 Apr 1994 Armando Calder
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24 Apr 1994 Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
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24 Apr 1994 David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71
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24 Apr 1994 New York Rangers sweep New York Islanders in NHL playoffs
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24 Apr 1995 Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes
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24 Apr 1995 Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98
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24 Apr 1995 Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
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24 Apr 1996 "Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore" opens at Belasco for 12 performances
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24 Apr 1996 In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
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24 Apr 1996 31st Academy of Country Music Awards Shania Twain wins
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24 Apr 1996 Highest scoring baseball game in 17 years - Twins 24, Tigers 11
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24 Apr 1997 "Steel Peer, " opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 76 performances
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24 Apr 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.
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24 Apr 2005 Snuppy becomes world's first cloned dog.
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24 Apr 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
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24 Apr 2013 Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
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24 Apr 2013 A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
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