WEDNESDAY, April 24, 2024

1872-Volcano Vesuvius erupts

1888-Eastman Kodak forms

1897-Reporter, William Price (Washington Star), first to be assigned to White House

1898-U.S. fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines

1929-First non-stop England to India flight takes-off

1944-RAF bombs Munich

1950-President Harry Truman denies there are communists in U.S. government

1955-Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination ends

1955-Gaullists lose elections in France

1963-English princess Alexandra marries Sir Angus Ogilvy

1968-Leftist students take over Columbia University in New York

1970-People's Rebublic of China launches its first satellite transmitting song "East is Red"

1981-IBM-PC computer introduced

1983-Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election

11992-David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland

1994-Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed

1995-Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98

1995-Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B. Murray