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Today is Thursday, April 24, the 115th day of 2008. There are 251 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On April 24, 1916, some 1,600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin, Ireland. (The rising was put down by British forces almost a week later.)
On this date:
In 1792, the national anthem of France, "La Marseillaise," was composed by Captain Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
In 1800, Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress.
In 1877, federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North's post-Civil War rule in the South.
In 1915, the Ottoman Empire began the brutal mass deportation of Armenians during World War I.
In 1953, British statesman Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth ll.
In 1980, the United States launched an unsuccessful attempt to free the American hostages in Iran, a mission that resulted in the deaths of eight U.S. servicemen.
In 1986, Wallis, the Duchess of Windsor, for whom King Edward VIII had given up the British throne, died in Paris.
Today's Birthdays: Film and drama critic Stanley Kauffmann is 92. Movie director-producer Richard Donner is 78. Actress Shirley MacLaine is 74. Author Sue Grafton is 68. Actor-singer Michael Parks is 68. Actress-singer-director Barbra Streisand is 66. Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley is 66. Country singer Richard Sterban (The Oak Ridge Boys) is 65. Rock musician Doug Clifford (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is 63. Rock singer-musician Rob Hyman is 58. Actor-playwright Eric Bogosian is 55. Actor Michael O'Keefe is 53. Rock musician David J (Bauhaus) is 51. Rock musician Billy Gould is 45. Actor-comedian Cedric the Entertainer is 44. Actor Djimon Hounsou is 44. Rock musician Patty Schemel is 41. Rock musician Aaron Comess (Spin Doctors) is 40. Actress Melinda Clarke is 39. Latin pop singer Alejandro Fernandez is 37. Country-rock musician Brad Morgan (Drive-By Truckers) is 37. Actor Derek Luke is 34. Actor Eric Balfour is 31. Country singer Rebecca Lynn Howard is 29. Actress Rebecca Mader is 29. Singer Kelly Clarkson is 26.
Thought for Today: "I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution." -- Ulysses S. Grant, U.S. President (1822-1885).
The Associated Press
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