📜 This Day in History
April 24
1704John Campbell released the first issue of The Boston News-Letter, the first continuously published newspaper in British North America.- 1904Realizing that the Russification of Lithuania was not working, the Russian Empire lifted the 40-year-old ban on publications written in Lithuanian language using the Latin alphabet.
- 1916Irish republicans led by Patrick Pearse began the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland, and proclaimed the Irish Republic an independent state.
- 1944World War II: The British Special Boat Service executed a successful raid to destroy an Axis radio station on the Greek island of Santorini.
- 1990The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 2013A building in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,134 people, making it the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern history.
