Today In History
Today is Tuesday, April 24, the 114th day of 2018. There are 251 days left in the year.
TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT
› 1880: Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress.
ON THIS DATE
› 1877: Federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North’s post-Civil War rule in the South.
› 1962: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal, using NASA’s Echo 1 balloon satellite to bounce a video image from Camp Parks, California, to Westford, Massachusetts.
› 1967: Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft smashed into the Earth after his parachutes failed to deploy properly during re-entry; he was the first human spaceflight fatality.
› 1970: The People’s Republic of China launched its first satellite, which kept transmitting a song, “The East Is Red.”
› 1990: The space shuttle Discovery blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.
TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
Movie director-producer Richard Donner is 88. Actress Shirley MacLaine is 84. Actress-singer-director Barbra Streisand is 76. Rock musician Doug Clifford (Creedence Clearwater Revival) is
73. Rock singer-musician Rob Hyman is 68. Former Irish Taoiseach Enda Kenny is 67. Actor-playwright Eric Bogosian is
65. Rock singer-musician Jack Blades (Night Ranger) is 64. Actor Michael O’Keefe is 63. Rock musician David J (Bauhaus) is 61. Actor Glenn Morshower is 59. Rock musician Billy Gould is
55. Rock musician Aaron Comess (Spin Doctors) is 50. Actor Aidan Gillen is 50. Actress Melinda Clarke is 49. Latin pop singer Alejandro Fernandez is 47. Country-rock musician Brad Morgan (Drive-By Truckers) is
47. Rock musician Brian Marshall (Creed; Alter Bridge) is 45. Actor Derek Luke is 44. Actor-producer Thad Luckinbill is 43. Country singer Danny Gokey is 38. Actress Reagan Gomez is 38. Actor Austin Nichols is 38. Actress Sasha Barrese is 37. Rock singer-musician Tyson Ritter (The All-American Rejects) is 34. Actor Joe Keery is
26. Actor Jack Quaid is
26. Actor Doc Shaw is 26. Golfer Lydia Ko is 21.