04-23-2010, 07:10 PM
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April 24th
1731 ~ Death of Daniel Defoe, English Writer.
1898 ~ Spain declared war on the U.S. over Cuba.
1905 ~ Birthday of Robert Penn Warren, Writer, Pulitzer Prize winner, first American Poet Laureate.
1916 ~ The Easter uprising began when some 1,600 Irish nationalists seized several key sites in Dublin.
1942 ~ Birthday of Barbra Streisand, American Singer & Actress.
1967 ~ Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in Soyuz 1.
1986 ~ Death of Wallis Simpson, Mistress & Wife of The Duke of Windsor.
1990 ~ The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by Space Shuttle Discovery.
1996 ~ The main assembly of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted to revoke clauses in its charter that called for an armed struggle to destroy Israel.
1997 ~ Death of Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician.
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