Friday, April 24, 2009
Only 251 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Armenian Martyr's Day
Today In History
On The Way To Today... April 24th
1547 - Holy Roman Emperor Charles V defeated the Protestants at
Muehlberg, near Leipzig, Germany.
1558 - Mary Queen of Scots, aged 16, married the dauphin of France,
the future Francois II.
1704 - The Boston News-Letter, one of the earliest newspapers in the
American colonies, was first published.
1800 - President John Adams signed a law establishing the Library of
Congress in Washington, D.C. Initially designed as a library for
congressional research, it has since amassed one of the largest
collections of manuscripts and printed material in the world.
1833 - Jacob Ebert of Cadiz, Ohio, along with George Dulty of
Wheeling, West Virginia, patented the soda fountain.
1897 - The first journalist named as the White House news reporter was
William Price, who started reporting on the prestigious beat for the
"Washington Star".
1898 - Spain declared war on the United States after receiving an
ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
1916 - The Easter Rising in Dublin, an insurrection aimed at setting
up an Irish Republic, began.
1921 - The Tyrol region of central Europe voted for union with
Germany.
1932 - In German elections, the Nazis made gains in Prussia, Bavaria,
Wurttemberg and Hamburg.
1945 - American forces liberated Dachau concentration camp.
1950 - The state of Jordan was formed by the union of
Jordanian-occupied Palestine and the Kingdom of Transjordan.
1955 - The Bandung Conference, organized by five Asian states, ended.
It condemned colonialism in both the West and the Soviet Union.
1965 - The Indonesian government formally took control of all foreign
companies in the country.
1967 - Vladimir Komarov, the first Russian to fly in the Soyuz craft,
was killed when he crash-landed in Russia after his 17th orbit of
Earth.
1970 - The Gambia was proclaimed a republic within the British
Commonwealth.
1970 - China launched its first satellite into orbit.
1985 - It was reported 832,602 millionaires lived in the United
States. Researchers also said the average millionaire was 57 years
old. A majority of these people, 85 percent, held college degrees; and
20 percent were retired, with 70 percent self-employed.
1990 - East and West Germany agreed on July 2 as the date for economic
union, a prelude to full political unification.
1991 - Kurdish rebel leaders reached an agreement in principle with
Saddam Hussein on greater autonomy.
1993 - A huge IRA bomb exploded in the heart of London's financial
district, killing one person.
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