This Day in History
24 Apr 1479
BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty)
24 Apr 1184
BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
24 Apr 1066
Halleys Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed
24 Apr 1185
Battle at Danoura Yoshitsune Minamotos fleet beats the Taira during Japans Genpei War
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Iran hostage rescue mission ends in disaster
On April 24 1980 an ill-fated military operation to rescue the 52 American hostages held in Tehran ends with eight U.S. servicemen dead and no hostages rescue...
Winston Churchill knighted
Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill the British leader who guided Great Britain and the Allies through the crisis of World War II is knighted by Queen Elizabeth...
German endurance driver killed in crash
On this day in 1983 Rolf Stommelen a four-time 24 Hours of Daytona champ as well as a Formula One driver is killed at the age of 39 in a crash at California...
Easter Rebellion begins
On this day in 1916 on Easter Monday in Dublin the Irish Republican Brotherhood a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse launches t...
Westmoreland makes controversial remarks
At a news conference in Washington Gen. William Westmoreland senior U.S. commander in South Vietnam causes controversy by saying that the enemy had ga...
North Vietnamese attack South Vietnamese installations
North Vietnamese troops hit Allied installations throughout South Vietnam. In the most devastating attack the ammunition depot at Qui Nhon was blown up. On Apr...
Penguins defeat Capitals in marathon hockey game
On this day in 1996 the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Washington Capitals 3-2 in 139 minutes and 15 seconds of total game play making it the fifth-longest ma...
President Truman is briefed on Manhattan Project
President Harry Truman learns the full details of the Manhattan Project in which scientists are attempting to create the first atomic bomb on this day in 1945...
Author Willa Cather dies
Willa Cather the author of several celebrated novels examining the lives of western pioneers dies in New York.Born in Virginia in 1873 Cather moved with her ...
Patti LaBelle makes her debut on the pop charts, sort of
Patti LaBelle and the Blue Belles song I Sold My Heart to the Junkman first enters the Billboard Hot 100 on this day in 1962. In a move t...
Mystery novelist Sue Grafton is born
Bestselling mystery novelist Sue Grafton creator of tough divorced private eye Kinsey Millhone was born on this day in 1940. Starting with A Is for Alib...
Jane Fonda’s first workout video released
Hollywood royalty fashion model Oscar-winning actress controversial anti-war activist. Jane Fonda fit all of these descriptions by the late 1970s and 1980s ...
Tornado flattens towns in Louisiana and Mississippi
A single tornado travels 150 miles through Louisiana and Mississippi leaving 143 dead in its wake. In total 311 people lost their lives to twisters during th...
Colin Ross is hanged in Australia after conviction based on forensic evidence
Colin Ross is hanged to death in Australia for the rape and murder of 13-year-old Alma Tirtschke. Ross was one of the first criminals in Australia to be convict...
The Bandung Conference concludes
The Afro-Asian Conferencepopularly known as the Bandung Conference because it was held in Bandung Indonesiacomes to a close on this day. During...
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