April 24th ----------- *This Day In History* ----------- MsPriss©

This Day In History for April 24th:

1061 -- Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed.

1762 -- Russia & Prussia signs peace treaty.

1800 -- Library of Congress is established with $5,000 allocation.

1833 -- Patent granted for 1st soda fountain to Jacob Evert & George Dulty.

1865 -- Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (San Francisco)

1872 -- Volcano Vesuvius erupts.

1888 -- Eastman Kodak forms.

1897 -- 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), is assigned to White House.

1898 -- Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.

1908 -- Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become the 1st to travel across the US by car, they leave Los Angeles in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32 days-5 hours-25 minutes.

1916 -- Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins.

1923 -- Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers.

1928 -- Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented.

1944 -- RAF bombs Munich.

1950 -- President Harry Truman denies there are communists in US government.

1954 -- Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations.

1960 -- Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed.

1961 -- JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs.

1961 -- The Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised.

1969 -- Paul McCartney says there is no truth to the rumours he is dead.

1980 -- US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die.

1981 -- IBM-PC computer introduced.

1981 -- US ends grain embargo against USSR.

1989 -- Tens of thousands of students strike in Beijing China.

1993 -- 1000 kg heavy IRA car bomb explodes in London, killing 1.

1995 -- Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray.

I hope everyone enjoys this Day in History!

MsPriss (((HUGS>)

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