Today is Wednesday, April 24, the 114th day of 2013. There are 251 days left in the year.
1061 ― Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed
1871 ― Giuseppe Verdi's opera “Aida" is produced (Cairo)
1915 ― Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day)
1915 ― German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
1916 ― Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1955 ― Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination ends
1968 ― Leftist students take over Columbia University, New York City
1989 ― Massachusetts declares today “New Kids on the Block Day"
1989 ― Tens of thousands of students strike in Beijing, China
1990 ― West & East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1