April 24
1800 - The Library of Congress was established.
1877 - Federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North’s post-Civil War rule in the South.
1898 - Spain declared war on the United States.
1915 - In what’s considered the start of the Armenian genocide, the Ottoman Empire began rounding up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople; an estimated 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians were killed.
1916 - The Easter Rebellion began in Dublin, Ireland. Although unsuccessful, the uprising was an important symbolic event leading to the establishment of the Republic of Ireland.
1953 - Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1960 - Rioting erupted in Biloxi, Mississippi, after Black protesters staging a “wade-in” at a whites-only beach were attacked by a crowd of hostile whites.
1961 - In the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the White House issued a statement saying that President John F. Kennedy “bears sole responsibility for the events of the past few days.”
1962 - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal, between Camp Parks, California, and Westford, Massachusetts.
1967 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft smashed into the Earth after his parachutes failed to deploy properly during re-entry; he was the first human spaceflight fatality.
1980 - The United States launched an unsuccessful attempt to free the American hostages in Iran, a mission that resulted in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen.
1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off to place the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.
1995 - The final bomb linked to the Unabomber exploded inside the Sacramento, California, offices of a lobbying group for the wood products industry, killing chief lobbyist Gilbert B. Murray. (Theodore Kaczynski was later sentenced to four lifetimes in prison for a series of bombings that killed three men and injured 29 others.)
2005 - Pope Benedict XVI formally began his stewardship of the Roman Catholic Church; the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in his installation homily that as pontiff he would listen to the will of God in governing the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics.
2013 - In Bangladesh, a shoddily constructed eight-story commercial building housing garment factories collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people.
2017 - Two inmates received lethal injections on the same gurney about three hours apart as Arkansas completed the nation’s first double execution since 2000, just days after the state ended a nearly 12-year hiatus on administering capital punishment.
2017 - Astronaut Peggy Whitson broke the U.S. record for most time in space and talked up Mars during a congratulatory call from President Donald Trump to the International Space Station.
2019 - Avowed racist John William King was executed in Texas for the 1998 slaying of James Byrd Jr., who was chained to the back of a truck and dragged along a road outside Jasper, Texas; prosecutors said Byrd was targeted because he was Black.
2020 - The Food and Drug Administration issued an alert about the dangers of using a malaria drug that President Donald Trump had repeatedly promoted for coronavirus patients. The parent company of Lysol and another disinfectant warned that its products should not be used as an internal treatment for the coronavirus, a day after Trump wondered aloud about that prospect during a White House briefing.
2021 - The United States formally declared that the systemic killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was "genocide," a term that the White House had avoided using for decades for fear of alienating ally Turkey.
2022 - Former police officer Joseph DeAngelo was arrested at his home near Sacramento, California, after DNA linked him to crimes attributed to the so-called Golden State Killer; authorities believed he committed 13 murders and more than 50 rapes in the 1970s and 1980s. (DeAngelo is awaiting trial.)
Birthdays
25 - Ryan Whitney (actress)
25 - Alli Simpson (singer)
26 - Lydia Ko (golfer)
28 - Kehlani (singer)
29 - Jordan Fisher (actor)
30 - Ashe (singer)
31 - Leah Messer (reality star)
31 - Doc Shaw (actor)
31 - Jack Quaid (actor)
31 - Joe Keery (actor)
33 - Carly Pearce (singer)
41 - Kelly Clarkson (singer)
42 - Sasha Barrese (actress)
43 - Austin Nichols (actor)
43 - Reagan Gomez (actress)
43 - Danny Gokey (singer)
44 - Rebecca Lynn Howard (singer)
46 - Rebecca Mader (actress)
46 - Eric Balfour (actor)
49 - Derek Luke (actor)
54 - Melinda Clarke (actress)
55 - Aidan Gillen (actor)
55 - Stacy Haiduk (actress)
59 - Cedric the Entertainer (actor/comedian)
64 - Glenn Morshower (actor)
68 - Michael O'Keefe (actor)
76 - Ann Peebles (singer)
77 - Phil Robertson (reality star)
80 - Richard Sterban (singer)
81 - Barbara Streisand (actress/singer)
89 - Shirley MacLaine (actress)
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Today in Sports History - April 24
1961 - Sandy Koufax (Los Angeles Dodgers) struck out 18 batters becoming the first major-league pitcher to do so on two different occasions.
1963 - The Boston Celtics won their fifth consecutive NBA championship, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in six games.
1967 - The Philadelphia 76ers defeated the San Francisco Warriors in six games to win the NBA championship.
1974 - The NFL awards a franchise to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
1978 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels records 15 strikeouts in a game for the 20th time in his career.
1988 - The Atlanta Falcons select Auburn tight end Aundray Bruce with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1994 - The Cincinnati Bengals select Ohio State defensive tackle Dan Wilkinson with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1994 - David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs scored 71 points in a game against the Los Angeles Clippers.
2003 - The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim defeated the Dallas Stars 4-3 in 5 overtime periods in game 1 of the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Petr Sykora scored 48 seconds into the fifth overtime ending the game as the fourth longest game in NHL history. The final time was 140 minutes and 48 seconds.
2004 - The San Diego Chargers select Mississippi quarterback Eli Manning with the first pick in the NFL Draft; the Chargers then immediately traded him to the New York Giants and received Philip Rivers in return.
1800 - The Library of Congress was established.
1877 - Federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North’s post-Civil War rule in the South.
1898 - Spain declared war on the United States.
1915 - In what’s considered the start of the Armenian genocide, the Ottoman Empire began rounding up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople; an estimated 600,000 to 1.5 million Armenians were killed.
1916 - The Easter Rebellion began in Dublin, Ireland. Although unsuccessful, the uprising was an important symbolic event leading to the establishment of the Republic of Ireland.
1953 - Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1960 - Rioting erupted in Biloxi, Mississippi, after Black protesters staging a “wade-in” at a whites-only beach were attacked by a crowd of hostile whites.
1961 - In the wake of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba, the White House issued a statement saying that President John F. Kennedy “bears sole responsibility for the events of the past few days.”
1962 - The Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal, between Camp Parks, California, and Westford, Massachusetts.
1967 - Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft smashed into the Earth after his parachutes failed to deploy properly during re-entry; he was the first human spaceflight fatality.
1980 - The United States launched an unsuccessful attempt to free the American hostages in Iran, a mission that resulted in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen.
1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off to place the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.
1995 - The final bomb linked to the Unabomber exploded inside the Sacramento, California, offices of a lobbying group for the wood products industry, killing chief lobbyist Gilbert B. Murray. (Theodore Kaczynski was later sentenced to four lifetimes in prison for a series of bombings that killed three men and injured 29 others.)
2005 - Pope Benedict XVI formally began his stewardship of the Roman Catholic Church; the former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in his installation homily that as pontiff he would listen to the will of God in governing the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics.
2013 - In Bangladesh, a shoddily constructed eight-story commercial building housing garment factories collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people.
2017 - Two inmates received lethal injections on the same gurney about three hours apart as Arkansas completed the nation’s first double execution since 2000, just days after the state ended a nearly 12-year hiatus on administering capital punishment.
2017 - Astronaut Peggy Whitson broke the U.S. record for most time in space and talked up Mars during a congratulatory call from President Donald Trump to the International Space Station.
2019 - Avowed racist John William King was executed in Texas for the 1998 slaying of James Byrd Jr., who was chained to the back of a truck and dragged along a road outside Jasper, Texas; prosecutors said Byrd was targeted because he was Black.
2020 - The Food and Drug Administration issued an alert about the dangers of using a malaria drug that President Donald Trump had repeatedly promoted for coronavirus patients. The parent company of Lysol and another disinfectant warned that its products should not be used as an internal treatment for the coronavirus, a day after Trump wondered aloud about that prospect during a White House briefing.
2021 - The United States formally declared that the systemic killing and deportation of more than a million Armenians by Ottoman Empire forces in the early 20th century was "genocide," a term that the White House had avoided using for decades for fear of alienating ally Turkey.
2022 - Former police officer Joseph DeAngelo was arrested at his home near Sacramento, California, after DNA linked him to crimes attributed to the so-called Golden State Killer; authorities believed he committed 13 murders and more than 50 rapes in the 1970s and 1980s. (DeAngelo is awaiting trial.)
Birthdays
25 - Ryan Whitney (actress)
25 - Alli Simpson (singer)
26 - Lydia Ko (golfer)
28 - Kehlani (singer)
29 - Jordan Fisher (actor)
30 - Ashe (singer)
31 - Leah Messer (reality star)
31 - Doc Shaw (actor)
31 - Jack Quaid (actor)
31 - Joe Keery (actor)
33 - Carly Pearce (singer)
41 - Kelly Clarkson (singer)
42 - Sasha Barrese (actress)
43 - Austin Nichols (actor)
43 - Reagan Gomez (actress)
43 - Danny Gokey (singer)
44 - Rebecca Lynn Howard (singer)
46 - Rebecca Mader (actress)
46 - Eric Balfour (actor)
49 - Derek Luke (actor)
54 - Melinda Clarke (actress)
55 - Aidan Gillen (actor)
55 - Stacy Haiduk (actress)
59 - Cedric the Entertainer (actor/comedian)
64 - Glenn Morshower (actor)
68 - Michael O'Keefe (actor)
76 - Ann Peebles (singer)
77 - Phil Robertson (reality star)
80 - Richard Sterban (singer)
81 - Barbara Streisand (actress/singer)
89 - Shirley MacLaine (actress)
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Today in Sports History - April 24
1961 - Sandy Koufax (Los Angeles Dodgers) struck out 18 batters becoming the first major-league pitcher to do so on two different occasions.
1963 - The Boston Celtics won their fifth consecutive NBA championship, defeating the Los Angeles Lakers in six games.
1967 - The Philadelphia 76ers defeated the San Francisco Warriors in six games to win the NBA championship.
1974 - The NFL awards a franchise to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
1978 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels records 15 strikeouts in a game for the 20th time in his career.
1988 - The Atlanta Falcons select Auburn tight end Aundray Bruce with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1994 - The Cincinnati Bengals select Ohio State defensive tackle Dan Wilkinson with the first pick in the NFL Draft.
1994 - David Robinson of the San Antonio Spurs scored 71 points in a game against the Los Angeles Clippers.
2003 - The Mighty Ducks of Anaheim defeated the Dallas Stars 4-3 in 5 overtime periods in game 1 of the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. Petr Sykora scored 48 seconds into the fifth overtime ending the game as the fourth longest game in NHL history. The final time was 140 minutes and 48 seconds.
2004 - The San Diego Chargers select Mississippi quarterback Eli Manning with the first pick in the NFL Draft; the Chargers then immediately traded him to the New York Giants and received Philip Rivers in return.
