04-24-2006, 07:12 AM
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April 24th
1731 ~ Death of Daniel Defoe, English Writer.
1856 ~ Birthday of Henri Philippe Pétain, Soldier & Statesman.
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. The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalist Patrick Pearse started a rebellion in Ireland.
1967 ~ Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov died in Soyuz 1.
1986 ~ Death of Wallis Simpson, Mistress and Wife of The Duke of Windsor.
1990 ~ The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by Space Shuttle Discovery.
1998 ~ An IRA bomb devastated the Bishopsgate area of London.
2004 ~ Death of Estée Lauder, Cosmetics pioneer.
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