April 24 in Pop Culture History

1184 BC – The fall of Troy (with the Trojan Horse) took place, according to tradition.

1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, the News-Letter, was published in Boston, Massachusetts.

1800 – The Library of Congress was established.

1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley joined Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show.

1895 – The first person to sail single-handedly worldwide, Joshua Slocum set sail from Boston, Massachusetts, aboard the sloop “Spray.”

1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey initially for the exclusive use of his employees, was opened.

1908 (Tornado) Amite, Louisiana and Purvis, Missouri.

1913 – The 57-floor Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City opened.

1928 – Herbert Grove Dorsey patented the fathometer (#1,667,540). It was designed to measure the depth of water.

1953 – Queen Elizabeth II knighted Winston Churchill.

1961 – #1 Hit April 24, 1961 – May 21, 1961: Del Shannon – Runaway

1965 – #1 Hit April 24, 1965 – April 30, 1965: Wayne Fontana & The Mindbenders – Game of Love

1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, was launched.

1981 -The first IBM personal computer was completed.

1982 – Jane Fonda’s first Workout video was released.

1990 – STS-31 – The Hubble Space Telescope was launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

#1 Hit April 24, 2021 – May 7, 2021: Rapstar – Polo G