1980 – In Iran, a commando mission to rescue hostages was aborted after mechanical problems disabled three of the eight helicopters involved. During the evacuation, a helicopter and a transport plane collided and exploded. Eight U.S.\u00a0servicemen were killed. The mission was aimed at freeing American hostages that had been taken at the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0embassy in Tehran on November 4, 1979. The event took place April 24th Washington, DC, time.<\/p>\n
1982 – In accordance with Camp David agreements, Israel completed its Sinai withdrawal.<\/p>\n
1983 – Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov invited Samantha Smith to visit his country after receiving a letter in which the\u00a0U.S.schoolgirl expressed fears about nuclear war.<\/p>\n
1983 – The\u00a0Pioneer 10<\/i>\u00a0spacecraft crossed Pluto’s orbit, speeding on its endless voyage through the Milky Way.<\/p>\n
1984 – In France, over one million people demonstrated to show they favored the decentralization of education.<\/p>\n
1984 – David Anthony Kennedy, the son of Robert F. Kennedy, was found dead of a drug overdose in a hotel room.<\/p>\n
1985 – “Big River (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn)” opened at the Eugene O\u8ab0eill Theatre on Broadway in New York City.<\/p>\n
1987 – In Washington,\u00a0DC, 100,000 people protested the\u00a0U.S.\u00a0policy in Central America.<\/p>\n
1987 – Peter O’Toole opened in “Pygmalion” on Broadway.<\/p>\n
1988 – In Israel, John “Ivan the Terrible” Demjanjuk was sentenced to death as a Nazi war criminal.<\/p>\n
1990 – Sandinista rule ended in Nicaragua.<\/p>\n
1990 – The U.S. Hubble Space Telescope was placed into Earth’s orbit. It was released by the space shuttle\u00a0Discovery<\/i>.<\/p>\n
1992 – Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government.<\/p>\n
1996 – The main assembly of the Palestine Liberation Organization voted to revoke clauses in its charter that called for an armed struggle to destroy Israel.<\/p>\n
1998 –\u00a0U.S.\u00a0first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on was questioned by Whitewater prosecutors on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for the failed savings and loan at the center of the investigation.<\/p>\n
2003 – Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader and ex-wife of former President Nelson Mandela, was sentenced to four years in prison for her conviction on fraud and theft charges. She was convicted of 43 counts of fraud and 25 of theft of money from a women’s political league.<\/p>\n
2007 – The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 13,000 for the first time.<\/p>\n
2014 \u2013\u00a0Flint, Michigan\u00a0switches its water source, beginning the\u00a0Flint water crisis.<\/p>\n
2007\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Boris Yeltsin’s funeral: The first to be sanctioned by the\u00a0Russian Orthodox Church\u00a0for a head of state since the funeral of Emperor\u00a0Alexander III\u00a0in 1894.<\/p>\n
2015\u00a0\u2013 Nearly 9,100 are killed after\u00a0a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Nepal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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