THIS HAPPENED ON APRIL 24.

THIS HAPPENED ON APRIL 24

THIS HAPPENED ON APRIL 24

Some Interesting facts about today. This Day of History everything important. Congratulation if your birthday is today otherwise......Congratulation for finding our blog. 

1743: Edmund Cartwright, inventor of the power loom, was born.

1792: La Marseillaise was composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle.

1815: Novelist Anthony Trollope was born in London.

1889: Sir Stafford Cripps, Labour Chancellor who introduced austerity measures in Britain after the Second World War, was born.

1916: The Easter rebellion began in Dublin against British rule in Ireland (ended on April 29).

1950: President Truman denied there were communists in the US government.

1965: The Pennine Way - 250 miles from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border - was officially opened.

1986: The Duchess of Windsor, the American widow of Edward, Duke of Windsor, died in Paris, aged 89.

1990: The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery.

2005: Snuppy becomes the world’s first cloned dog

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Driverless cars would be deployed on UK motorways in the next three years, a group of technology firms announced.

BIRTHDAYS: Shirley MacLaine, entertainer, 84; Barbra Streisand, singer/actress, 76; Michael O’Keefe, actor, 63; Stuart Pearce, football manager, 56; Djimon Hounsou, actor, 54; Sachin Tendulkar, former cricketer, 45; Gabby Logan, television presenter, 45; Dave Vitty, radio personality, 44; Kelly Clarkson, singer-songwriter, 36; Ben Howard, singer-songwriter, 31.

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