On this day
April 24
1558 - Mary Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1704 - The first regular newspaper in the United States, the Boston, Massachusetts New-Letter, is published.
1913 - The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City is opened.
1916 - Easter Rising begins: The Irish Republican Brotherhood, led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly and Joseph Plunkett, start a rebellion in Ireland.
1918 - First tank to tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.
1953 - Winston Churchill is knighted.
1963 - Marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
1970 - The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
1993 - An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of City of London.
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