A Daily Dose of History (24 Apr 2024) Today's historical events:

• Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
• Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
• The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
• French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris.
• The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
• The great fire in Surat city of India caused more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9000 houses.
• Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
• American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
• Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
• The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
• The Franck-Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
• The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
• Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
• Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance.
• World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.

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