TODAY IN HISTORY

On April 24, 1877, federal troops were ordered out of New Orleans, ending the North’s post-Civil War rule in the South.

In 1915, in what’s considered the start of the

Armenian genocide, the Ottoman Empire began rounding up Armenian leaders in Constantinople.

In 1967, Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when his spacecraft smashed into the Earth during reentry; he was the first human spaceflight fatality.

In 1990, the space shuttle Discovery blasted off from

Cape Canaveral, Florida, carrying the $1.5 billion Hubble Space Telescope.

In 1995, the final bomb linked to the Unabomber exploded inside a Sacramento, California, office.

In 2013, in Bangladesh, a shoddily constructed eight-story commercial building housing garment factories collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people.