WHAT HAPPENED TODAY IN HISTORY APRIL 24

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1989 Thousands of Chinese students strike in Beijing for more democratic reforms.

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1981 The IBM Personal Computer is introduced.

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1980 A rescue attempt of the U.S. hostages held in Iran fails when a plane collides with a helicopter in the Iranian desert.

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1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University in protest over the Vietnam War.

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1961 President John Kennedy accepts “sole responsibility” for the failed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs.

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1953 Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

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1948 The Berlin airlift begins to relieve the surrounded city.

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1944 The first B-29 arrives in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas.

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1916 Irish nationalists launch the Easter Uprising against British occupation.

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1915 Turks of the Ottoman Empire begin massacring the Armenian minority in their country.

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1906 William Joyce, ‘Lord Haw-Haw,’ British traitor, Nazi propagandist.

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1905 Robert Penn Warren, novelist, America’s first poet laureate.

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1904 Willem de Kooning, abstract impressionist painter.

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1900 Elizabeth Goudge, English author.

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