Thursday, April 24, 2014

History for April 24

History for April 24 - On-This-Day.com:
Take Our Daughters and Sons To Work Day. 21st annual. See www.DaughtersandSonstoWork.org

Birth anniversary of American poet, novelist, critic Robert Penn Warren (1905-89). Warren was America’s first official poet laureate, 1986-88.


Birth anniversary of English novelist Anthony Trollope (1815-1882).

Happy Birthday! Kelly Clarkson, Richard M. Daley, Barbra Streisand


1805 - The U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli.


1833 - A patent was granted for first soda fountain.
 

1889 - The Edison General Electric Company was organized. 



1898 - Spain declared war on the U.S., rejecting America's ultimatum for Spain to withdraw from Cuba.






1948 - The Berlin airlift began to relieve the surrounded city. 


1953 - Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. 



1961 - U.S. President Kennedy accepted "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. 



1967 - Soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov died when his craft crashed with a tangled parachute. 



1967 - The newest Greek regime banned miniskirts. 



2003 - A U.S. official reported the North Korea had claimed to have nuclear weapons. 



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