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 after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
1915 - The Ottoman Empire rounded up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople at the start of what many scholars regard as the first genocide of the 20th century, in which an estimated 1.5 million Armenians died.
1916 - The Easter Rebellion begins in Dublin, Ireland; allthough unsuccessful, the uprising was an important symbolic event leading to the establishment of the Republic of Ireland.
1953 - Winston Churchill is 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 abortive attempt to free the American hostages in Iran; eight U.S. servicemen died.
1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on a mission to place the 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.)
1996 - The main assembly of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted to revoke clauses in its charter that called for an armed struggle to destroy Israel.
2005 - Pope Benedict XVI was installed as leader of the Roman Catholic Church in cermonies at the Vatican.
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 systematic 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.
Birthdays
24 - Ryan Whitney (actress)
24 - Alli Simpson (singer)
25 - Lydia Ko (golfer)
27 - Kehlani (singer)
28 - Jordan Fisher (actor)
30 - Doc Shaw (actor)
30 - Jack Quaid (actor)
30 - Joe Keery (actor)
30 - Leah Messer (reality star)
32 - Carly Pearce (singer)
40 - Kelly Clarkson (singer)
41 - Sasha Barrese (actress)
42 - Austin Nichols (actor)
42 - Reagan Gomez (actress)
42 - Danny Gokey (singer)
43 - Rebecca Lynn Howard (singer)
45 - Rebecca Mader (actress)
45 - Eric Balfour (actor)
47 - Thad Luckinbill (actor)
48 - Derek Luke (actor)
50 - Chipper Jones (baseball player)
53 - Rory McCann (actor)
53 - Melinda Clarke (actress)
54 - Aidan Gillen (actor)
54 - Stacy Haiduk (actress)
58 - Cedric the Entertainer (actor/comedian)
63 - Glenn Morshower (actor)
67 - Michael O'Keefe (actor)
75 - Ann Peebles (singer)
76 - Phil Robertson (reality star)
79 - Richard Sterban (singer)
80 - Barbra Streisand (actress/singer)
88 - Shirley MacLaine (actress)
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Today in Sports History - April 24
1901 - The Chicago White Stockings defeated the Cleveland Blues in the first game played in the American League.
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 after defeating the Los Angeles Lakers; the contest also featured the final game for Boston's Bob Cousy.
1967 - The Philadelphia 76ers defeat the San Francisco Warriors in six games to win the NBA championship.
1978 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels strikes out 15 batters 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 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; Manning is then immediately traded to the New York Giants for Philip Rivers and three additional draft picks.
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 after rejecting America's ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.
1915 - The Ottoman Empire rounded up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople at the start of what many scholars regard as the first genocide of the 20th century, in which an estimated 1.5 million Armenians died.
1916 - The Easter Rebellion begins in Dublin, Ireland; allthough unsuccessful, the uprising was an important symbolic event leading to the establishment of the Republic of Ireland.
1953 - Winston Churchill is 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 abortive attempt to free the American hostages in Iran; eight U.S. servicemen died.
1990 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off on a mission to place the 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.)
1996 - The main assembly of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted to revoke clauses in its charter that called for an armed struggle to destroy Israel.
2005 - Pope Benedict XVI was installed as leader of the Roman Catholic Church in cermonies at the Vatican.
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 systematic 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.
Birthdays
24 - Ryan Whitney (actress)
24 - Alli Simpson (singer)
25 - Lydia Ko (golfer)
27 - Kehlani (singer)
28 - Jordan Fisher (actor)
30 - Doc Shaw (actor)
30 - Jack Quaid (actor)
30 - Joe Keery (actor)
30 - Leah Messer (reality star)
32 - Carly Pearce (singer)
40 - Kelly Clarkson (singer)
41 - Sasha Barrese (actress)
42 - Austin Nichols (actor)
42 - Reagan Gomez (actress)
42 - Danny Gokey (singer)
43 - Rebecca Lynn Howard (singer)
45 - Rebecca Mader (actress)
45 - Eric Balfour (actor)
47 - Thad Luckinbill (actor)
48 - Derek Luke (actor)
50 - Chipper Jones (baseball player)
53 - Rory McCann (actor)
53 - Melinda Clarke (actress)
54 - Aidan Gillen (actor)
54 - Stacy Haiduk (actress)
58 - Cedric the Entertainer (actor/comedian)
63 - Glenn Morshower (actor)
67 - Michael O'Keefe (actor)
75 - Ann Peebles (singer)
76 - Phil Robertson (reality star)
79 - Richard Sterban (singer)
80 - Barbra Streisand (actress/singer)
88 - Shirley MacLaine (actress)
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Today in Sports History - April 24
1901 - The Chicago White Stockings defeated the Cleveland Blues in the first game played in the American League.
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 after defeating the Los Angeles Lakers; the contest also featured the final game for Boston's Bob Cousy.
1967 - The Philadelphia 76ers defeat the San Francisco Warriors in six games to win the NBA championship.
1978 - Nolan Ryan of the California Angels strikes out 15 batters 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 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; Manning is then immediately traded to the New York Giants for Philip Rivers and three additional draft picks.
