Events in History for Sunday April 24th 2016

Events in History for Saturday April 23rd 2016

• 1479 BC Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
• 1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date).
• 1877 Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
• 1898 Spanish-American War: Spain delares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
• 1916 Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin
• 1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had “gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily.”
• 1981 IBM-PC computer introduced

Read more Events in History at: http://www.onthisday.com/today/events.php

Listen to the latest podcast content under ‘The Guy R Cook Report’ on the following links:

BLAB Profile Feed: https://blab.im/guyrcook

Podbean Feed: http://theguyrcookreport.podbean.com/feed/

RSS Feed:

The Guy R Cook Report via YouTube

RSS Feed: The Guy R Cook Report via Guy R Cook Online Services Blog

Become a patron The Guy R Cook Report on our Podcast funding page