On This Day - April 24th 1704 - The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
On This Day - April 24th 1877 - Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
On This Day - April 24th 1916 - Patrick Pearse read the Proclamation of the Republic outside the GPO at the start of Ireland's Easter Rising.
On This Day - April 24th 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
On This Day - April 24th 1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
On This Day - April 24th 1975 – The Baader-Meinhof Gang takes 13 hostages at the West German embassy in Stockholm.
On This Day - April 24th 1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
On This Day - April 24th 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
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