Tuesday, April 24, 2018

History for April 24

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History for April 24 - On-This-Day.com
Robert Penn Warren 1905, Jill Ireland 1936,  Shirley MacLaine 1934 - Actress
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 Sue Grafton 1940 - Author, Barbra Streisand 1942 - Singer, Kelly Clarkson (Kelly Brianne Clarkson) 1983 - Singer, first "American Idol" participant to win a Grammy Award
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 1805 - The U.S. Marines attacked and captured the town of Derna in Tripoli.
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 1877 - Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire.
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 1915 - During World War I, the Ottoman Turkish Empire began the mass deportation of Armenians.
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 1953 - Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
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 1967 - Soviet astronaut Vladimir Komarov died when his craft crashed with a tangled parachute.
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 1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL. It was carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.
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 1997 - The U.S. Senate ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention. The global treaty banned the development, production, storage and use of chemical weapons.
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 2003 - A U.S. official reported the North Korea had claimed to have nuclear weapons.
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