Today is Monday, April 24, the 114th day of 2017. There are 251 days left in the year.
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
1920 — British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
1923 — Colonel Jacob Schick patents Schick shavers
1923 — General harbor strike begins in New York NY
1928 — Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1929 — Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1941 — British army begins evacuation of Greece