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==Events== *1479 BC – Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty). *1184 BC – Traditional date of the fall of Troy. *1547 – Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League. *1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris. *1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, ''The Boston News-Letter'', is published. *1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress". *1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire. *1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West. *1895 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray". *1904 – The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years. *1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened. *1913 – The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened. *1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society. *1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. *1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland. * 1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship . *1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs. *1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation. *1923 – In Vienna, the paper ''Das Ich und das Es'' (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud's theories of the id, ego, and super-ego. *1926 – The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years. *1932 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom. *1933 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg. *1944 – World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece. *1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. *1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War. *1957 – Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region. * 1957 – The BBC first broadcast ''The Sky at Night'' presented by Patrick Moore *1963 – Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London. *1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch. *1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. * 1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily." *1968 – Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations. *1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched. * 1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President. *1971 – Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1. *1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis. *1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle ''Discovery''. * 1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine. *1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London. *1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law. *2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction. *2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI. * 2005 – Snuppy becomes world's first cloned dog. *2013 – A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others. * 2013 – Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「April 24」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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