Monday, April 24, 2017

History for April 24

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History for April 24 - On-This-Day.com:
Edmund Cartwright 1743, Robert Penn Warren 1905, Shirley MacLaine 1934 - Actress
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Jill Ireland 1936, Sue Grafton 1940 - Author, Barbra Streisand 1942 - Singer
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1805 - The U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli.


1915 - During World War I, the Ottoman Turkish Empire began the mass deportation of Armenians.


1944 - The first B-29 arrived in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas.


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.


1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL. It was carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.


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

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