Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 24

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 * 1704 – John Campbell released the first issue of The Boston News-Letter, the first continuously published newspaper in British North America.
 * 1800 – The Library of Congress (building pictured), the de facto national library of the United States, was established as part of an act of Congress providing for the transfer of the nation's capital from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
 * 1866 – German composer Max Bruch conducted the premiere of his first violin concerto, which later became his most famous work.
 * 1904 – Realizing that the Russification of Lithuania was not working, the Russian Empire lifted the 40-year-old ban on publications written in Lithuanian language using the Latin alphabet.
 * 1913 – The Woolworth Building in New York City officially opened; at the time, it was the tallest building in the world, with a height of 792 ft.
 * 1915 – The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire began with the arrest and deportation of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople.
 * 1918 – First World War: The Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux began, which contained the first instance of tanks fighting against each other.
 * 1922 – The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network created to link the countries of the British Empire, opened.
 * 1932 – An estimated 400 ramblers committed a wilful mass trespass of Kinder Scout (pictured) in the Peak District to highlight the denial of access to areas of open country in England.
 * 1933 – Nazi Germany began its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
 * 1944 – World War II: The British Special Boat Service executed a successful raid to destroy an Axis radio station on the Greek island of Santorini.
 * 1965 – Cold War: The Dominican Civil War broke out due to tensions following a military coup against the democratically elected government of President Juan Bosch two years earlier.
 * 1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen died in Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue the captives in the Iran hostage crisis.
 * 2011 – Secret documents relating to detainees at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp were released on WikiLeaks and several independent news organizations.
 * 2013 – A building in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,134 people, making it the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern history.
 * Born/died this day: | Xu Guangqi |b|1562| Vincent de Paul |b|1581| Axel von Fersen the Elder |d|1794| Anthony Trollope |b|1815| Robert Howard Hodgkin |b|1877| Benjamin Lee Whorf |b|1897| Mimi Smith! |b|1906| James Wood Bush |d|1906| G. Stanley Hall |d|1924| Bridget Riley |b|1931| Richard M. Daley |b|1942| Laurentia Tan |b|1979| Kelly Clarkson |b|1982| Sigrid Agren |b|1991| Sathya Sai Baba |d|2011

April 24: Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (1915); Administrative Professionals Day in various countries (2024)


 * 1837 – A fire broke out in Surat, India, which went on to destroy about 75% of the city.
 * 1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, the first electrical measurement to clearly demonstrate quantum mechanics, was presented to the German Physical Society.
 * 1916 – Irish republicans led by Patrick Pearse began the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland, and proclaimed the Irish Republic an independent state.
 * 1990 – The Hubble Space Telescope (pictured) was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery.
 * 1993 – The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in London's financial district in Bishopsgate, killing one person, injuring forty-four others, and causing damage that cost £350 million to repair.