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Events from History on April 24

1704 : "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in US, forms
1994 : "Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances
1965 : "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 perfs
1994 : "Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
1971 : "Frank Merriwell" opens/closes at Longacre Theater NYC for 1 perf
1996 : "Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore" opens at Belasco for 12 perf
1792 : "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
1992 : "Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 108 performances
1950 : "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances
1983 : "Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances
1997 : "Steel Peer," opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 76 performances
1993 : 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1
1989 : 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China
1946 : 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank,
1982 : 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany
1954 : 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1944 : 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
1962 : 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
1933 : 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell)
1921 : 1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium
1929 : 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1801 : 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"
1897 : 1st reporter, William Price (Wash Star), assigned to White House
1905 : 1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey v Gentlemen (18 & 28)
1991 : 26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks
1883 : 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
1996 : 31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain
1968 : ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas
1993 : ABC news analyst Jeff Greenfield weds Karen Gannett
1994 : Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32)
1945 : Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner
1880 : Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics
1954 : Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations
1983 : Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
1854 : Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"
1185 : Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet
1547 : Battle of Mhlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave
1570 : Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman
1867 : Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars
1994 : Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
1990 : Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa," premieres in Dublin
1941 : British army begins evacuation of Greece
1920 : British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
1957 : Chic Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning
1970 : China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
1923 : Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers
1955 : Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends
1995 : Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes
1992 : David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland
1994 : David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71
1945 : Delegates of 46 countries gather in SF (to discuss UN)
1995 : Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98
1524 : Duke of Bourbon drives admiral Bonnivet out of Milan
1941 : Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
1974 : Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
1916 : Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1888 : Eastman Kodak forms
1963 : English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy
1823 : EugŠne Scribes "Le Menteur V‚ridique," premieres in Paris
1928 : Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1865 : Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)
1993 : Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham
1982 : Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin
1894 : French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
1970 : Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth
1955 : Gaullists lose elections in France
1969 : Gen Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded
1311 : Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
1923 : General harbor strike begins in NYC
1992 : George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball
1915 : German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
1910 : German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
1932 : German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
1061 : Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed
1909 : Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds
1960 : Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
1987 : Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza NYC
1981 : IBM-PC computer introduced
1880 : in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1950 : Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
1833 : Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent soda fountain
1288 : Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder
1895 : Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
1955 : KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 : KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1877 : Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
1969 : Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians
1958 : Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
1968 : Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC
1800 : Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1938 : Lindenheuvel soccer team forms
1989 : Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
1915 : Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day)
1965 : Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
1962 : MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA
1908 : Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car,
1884 : National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
1959 : Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
1984 : Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot
1871 : Opera "Aida" is produced (Cairo)
1596 : Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
1995 : Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
1900 : Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
1833 : Patent granted for 1st soda fountain
1969 : Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumors he is dead
1975 : Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3
1894 : Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers
1915 : Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0
1920 : Polish troops attack Ukraine
1364 : Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht
1950 : Pres Truman denies there are communists in US govt
1985 : Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"
1558 : Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince Fran‡ois
1944 : RAF bombs Munich
1960 : Record 4 grand slams hit today
1762 : Russia & Prussia signs peace treaty
1877 : Russia declares war on Turkey through Romania
1990 : Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
1905 : Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3
1970 : Senegal adopts constitution
1863 : Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid)
1971 : Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
1898 : Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1891 : Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
1908 : they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
1929 : Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1899 : Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid
1944 : United Negro College Fund incorporates
1990 : US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
1969 : US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
1981 : US ends grain embargo against USSR
1898 : US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines
1980 : US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
1961 : Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
1992 : Vinson Pike fined œ1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures
1872 : Volcano Vesuvius erupts
1946 : Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, & McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame
1990 : West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
1959 : WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 : Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1954 : WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1917 : Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway

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