Anonymous ID: 5b4549 April 24, 2018, 8:20 p.m. No.1176871   🗄️.is 🔗kun

 

 

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1916

Easter Rebellion begins

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On this day in 1916, on Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule.

Anonymous ID: 5b4549 April 24, 2018, 8:23 p.m. No.1176902   🗄️.is 🔗kun

On the evening of April 24, 1781, British General William Phillips lands on the banks of the James River at City Port, Virginia. Once there, he combined forces with British General Benedict Arnold, the former American general and notorious traitor, to launch an attack on the town of Petersburg

Anonymous ID: 5b4549 April 24, 2018, 8:25 p.m. No.1176920   🗄️.is 🔗kun

1980

Hostage rescue mission ends in disaster

On April 24, 1980, an ill-fated military operation to rescue the 52 American hostages held in Tehran ends with eight U.S. servicemen dead and no hostages rescued.With the Iran Hostage Crisis stretching into its sixth month and all diplomatic appeals to the Iranian government ending in failure, President Jimmy Carter