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April 24 is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 251 days remain until the end of the year. Events. Pre-1600. 1479 BC ...
The 1771 Great Yaeyama Tsunami (also called 明和の大津波, the Great Tsunami of Meiwa) was caused by the Yaeyama Great Earthquake at about 8 A.M. on April 24, 1771, south-southeast of Ishigaki Island, part of the former Ryūkyū Kingdom and now part of present-day Okinawa, Japan.
Events. 1704 - The first regular newspaper in the Thirteen Colonies, the Boston New-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".
1704 – John Campbell released the first issue of The Boston News-Letter, the first continuously published newspaper in British North America.; 1800 – The Library of Congress (building pictured), the de facto national library of the United States, was established as part of an act of Congress providing for the transfer of the nation's capital from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.
April 24, 2024 at 6:54 AM. Parts of Greece, including its capital Athens, are being blanketed by an orange-colored haze as dust from the Sahara Desert drifts north. Some European broadcasters are ...
The Land Act of 1820 (ch. 51, 3 Stat. 566), enacted April 24, 1820, is the United States federal law that ended the ability to purchase the United States' public domain lands on a credit or installment system over four years, as previously established. The new law became effective July 1, 1820 and required full payment at the time of purchase ...
Turns out I learned a lot of good stuff in April, from Ben and Jerry's almost being a bagel delivery company to Charles Manson being BFFs with one of the Beach Boys.View Entire Post ›
A USA Today article from 2021 reported that the trend could likely be traced back to a video created by six men in April 2021 that urged others to commit sexual assaults on April 24. The fact ...