This Day In History

Showing all results for Wednesday, April 24, 2024

1. 1992 "Man of La Mancha" with Sheena Easton opens at Marquis theater
2. 1990 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July first
3. 1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
4. 1990 Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
5. 1989 Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day"
6. 1989 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China
7. 1986 Wallis Warfield Simpson (Duchess of Windsor) dies
8. 1985 Supreme Court of Canada ruling allows Sunday shopping in most provinces.
9. 1982 C Torres discovers asteroid #3361 Orpheus
10. 1981 IBM-PC introduced
11. 1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
12. 1980 US miltary operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die
13. 1977 C Kowal discovers asteroid #2063 Bacchus
14. 1974 Bud Abbott dies at 78
15. 1971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
16. 1970 China PR launches its first satellite transmitting song "East is Red"
17. 1969 Paul McCartney says their is no truth to the rumours he is dead
18. 1967 Frank Overton actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48
19. 1963 Bob Cousy of the Boston Celtics retired from the NBA.
20. 1962 The first Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
21. 1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for first time: CA to MA
22. 1961 JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
23. 1960 In Southern Iran a 6.0 earthquake resulted in 420 killed, 3,000 injured, and $20 million property damage at Kourdeh and Lar.
24. 1955 " X-Minus One", a show for science fiction fans, was first heard on NBC radio this day.
25. 1954 The first American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
26. 1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
27. 1952 First shipment of oil from Alberta arrives in Ontario by pipeline and lake freighter, and they still do not like the price
28. 1951 Canadian troops defend Kapyong Valley in Korea against two-day Chinese attack; suffer 10 dead, 23 wounded.
29. 1949 Dick Powell starred in " Richard Diamond, Private Detective" on NBC radio.
30. 1945 A new commissioner of baseball was named. He was Albert B.’ Happy’ Chandler.
31. 1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates
32. 1944 First Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
33. 1944 Capture of Madang, New Guinea
34. 1934 Laurens Hammond announced the development of the pipeless organ
35. 1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1193 Africa
36. 1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks
37. 1900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
38. 1898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
39. 1897 The first journalist to be named White House news reporter was William Price, who began working the prestigious beat for the "Washington Star" this day.
40. 1895 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
41. 1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
42. 1880 Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England and Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
43. 1877 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
44. 1833 Jacob Ebert of Cadiz, OH and George Dulty of Wheeling, WV got together to patent the soda fountain.
45. 1800 Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation