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 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, 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 – The fathometer was Patented (#1,667,540) by Herbert Grove Dorsey. It was designed to measure the depth of water.
1953 – Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
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.
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