History Events on April 24
![Easter Rising](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2Ffilter060yryPL75d7IParjDSH.jpg?generation=1608827682808170&alt=media)
Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
#Easter_Rising
![Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2Ffilter2sP7M30ZPE45lHNiiOcg.png?generation=1608827683662603&alt=media)
In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
#Antiterrorism_and_Effective_Death_Penalty_Act_of_1996
![Franck-Hertz experiment](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2Ffilter5FvhduzLi8gk3aGX3r0k.jpg?generation=1608827684078061&alt=media)
The Franck-Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
#Franck-Hertz_experiment
![World War I](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterAiwAVMT48VqbxxiDx7Gh.jpg?generation=1608827684510739&alt=media)
World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
#World_War_I
![Suez Crisis](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterCY1mI3PcrQyrA1yyOoOD.jpg?generation=1608827684961856&alt=media)
Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
#Suez_Crisis
![Joshua Slocum](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterGqalpseUAfbiK2yB0LH6.jpg?generation=1608827685359361&alt=media)
Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
#Joshua_Slocum
![Ernest Shackleton](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterHCXSJ1Ju1T3RJN6C7quu.jpg?generation=1608827685732637&alt=media)
Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
#Ernest_Shackleton
![Battle of Mühlberg](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterIsz6o4ni0Rio3ukndLJ7.jpg?generation=1608827686184794&alt=media)
Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
#Battle_of_Mühlberg
![Dominican Republic](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterKlHrmljwk8qH84JYRmAP.png?generation=1608827686615234&alt=media)
Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
#Dominican_Republic
![Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterLgDKDY3rjfIbmLLGM13s.png?generation=1608827687419881&alt=media)
Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
#Princess_Alexandra,_The_Honourable_Lady_Ogilvy
![Operation Eagle Claw](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterM5bmXWEYBj4a4vDkG6wi.jpg?generation=1608827687818879&alt=media)
Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
#Operation_Eagle_Claw
![Mary, Queen of Scots](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterOCPbqdryYS3APSI9XJM1.jpg?generation=1608827688335134&alt=media)
Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
#Mary,_Queen_of_Scots
![Library of Congress](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterU4lwawuYZipEJi5fZ2Lk.png?generation=1608827688836930&alt=media)
The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
#Library_of_Congress
![The Gambia](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterYqqwwFRyUcTyWVSbwvTe.png?generation=1608827689619038&alt=media)
The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
#The_Gambia
![Imperial Wireless Chain](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterZF9f3nYy9FIDN6bpOEel.png?generation=1608827690396893&alt=media)
The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
#Imperial_Wireless_Chain
![Special Boat Service](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2Ffilteraa9u5hmH1yCDbRYf3u6f.png?generation=1608827691178464&alt=media)
World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
#Special_Boat_Service
![Vietnam War](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilteraxYyOMzv2KzhDhJOzF9G.png?generation=1608827691960546&alt=media)
Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily".
#Vietnam_War
![Woolworth Building](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfiltergC9NdZWm2DaQYNrMjSUd.jpg?generation=1608827692369182&alt=media)
The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
#Woolworth_Building
![Economic sanctions](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2Ffiltergmgbb0YKy4Khpp9STHPx.jpg?generation=1608827692775338&alt=media)
The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
#Economic_sanctions
Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
#Thutmose_III
![Thirteen Colonies](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2Ffiltero9JYdaSqw8MC8iuqUGyc.png?generation=1608827693570806&alt=media)
The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
#Thirteen_Colonies
![Winston Churchill](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2Ffilterpa98Sz174MVO5MwGetlQ.jpg?generation=1608827693955862&alt=media)
Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
#Winston_Churchill
![STS-31](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfiltersHIPm1sRF29WxJAksO0z.jpg?generation=1608827694368554&alt=media)
STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
#STS-31
![Sharpshooter](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfiltersXecug4GeDgK0IcC2b5e.jpg?generation=1608827694795646&alt=media)
American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
#Sharpshooter
![Astronaut](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilteruUUbfUeIAxMiPPgC8H9g.jpg?generation=1608827695184870&alt=media)
Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
#Astronaut
![Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfiltervgsSewPhjoD06eUBNQg5.jpg?generation=1608827695612150&alt=media)
The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
#Deportation_of_Armenian_intellectuals_on_24_April_1915
![Bandung Conference](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterwmqUOJ2rxsU6uyJjGisb.jpg?generation=1608827696019600&alt=media)
The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
#Bandung_Conference
![Nazi Germany](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterwxhpLf5mOoTu0dJ4yR4t.png?generation=1608827696435949&alt=media)
Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
#Nazi_Germany
![Gruinard Island](https://www.googleapis.com/download/storage/v1/b/infinityfact.appspot.com/o/HISTORY%2FEvents%2FApril_24%2FfilterxzbDCU6NSANrMko987eD.jpg?generation=1608827696846961&alt=media)
Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
#Gruinard_Island