April 24<\/p>\n
1183 BC \u2013 By reckoning of Eratosthenes, the chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria, Troy falls after Epeius’ Steed, the ‘Trojan Horse’, is taken into the city and 40 Greek warriors hidden inside open the city gates to let the rest of the Greek army attack.<\/p>\n
1704 \u2013 The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter<\/em>, is published by John Campbell.<\/p>\n 1800 \u2013 The Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs into law an appropriation for $5,000 to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”.<\/p>\n 1885 \u2013 Phoebe Ann Moses, better known as Annie Oakley, is hired by by Nate Salsbury to be an exhibition shooter in Buffalo Bill’s Wild West <\/em>show<\/p>\n 1895 \u2013 Joshua Slocum, aboard the sloop\u00a0Spray,\u00a0<\/em>sets sail from Boston, to be the first to sail single handedly around the world.<\/p>\n 1913 \u2013 The 60 story Woolworth Building in Manhattan, for the next 17 years\u00a0 the tallest building in the world, is opened.<\/p>\n 1915 \u2013 The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide by the Turks.<\/p>\n 1918 \u2013\u00a0 During the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux in World War I, 3 British Mark IV tanks engage 3 German A7V tanks in the first tank vs. tank combat action.<\/p>\n 1967 \u2013 PER ARDUA AD ASTRA\u00a0 Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies aboard Soyuz 1, <\/em>when its parachute fails to open during reentry. The first man to die during a space mission.<\/p>\n 1980 \u2013\u00a0 During Operation Eagle Claw<\/em>, an attempt to rescue the American embassy members taken hostage by Iran, 8 U.S. servicemembers and 1 Iranian national are killed, and 5 U.S. servicemembers are injured at staging point Desert One<\/em>, when RH-53D Sea Stallion <\/em>helicopter\u00a0Bluebeard 3<\/em>\u00a0collides on the ground with EC-130 Hercules<\/em> aircraft Republic 4, <\/em>causing a massive fire.<\/p>\n 1990 \u2013 During shuttle mission STS-31, the Hubble Space Telescope is launched from Shuttle Discovery.<\/em><\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996<\/em> Public Law No. 104-132, 110 Stat. 1214 is signed into law by President Clinton.<\/p>\n 1997 \u2013 Eugene Stoner, designer of a direct gas operating system for firearms and used in many different models, dies, age 74, at Palm City, Florida.<\/p>\n 2011 \u2013 WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files; documents relating to detainees at the United States Guant\u00e1namo Bay detention camp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" April 24 1183 BC \u2013 By reckoning of Eratosthenes, the chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria, Troy falls after Epeius’ Steed, the ‘Trojan Horse’, is taken into the city and 40 Greek warriors hidden inside open the city gates to let the rest of the Greek army attack. 1704 \u2013 The first regular newspaper … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67159"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92127,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67159\/revisions\/92127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}