Once Upon A Time – April 24 – 2018 – Streaming Music Services Overtake Worldwide Sales Of CDs, Vinyl

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)

1877-78: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire

1898 Spanish–American War: Spain declares 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.”

Historical Events Today Events in 2023
Today in Film & TV
1962 Massachusetts Institute of Technology sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: California to Massachusetts

Today in Music
2018 Streaming music services overtake worldwide sales of CDs and vinyl for the first time according to IFPI

Today in Sport
1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey

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1990 STS-31 launches, the 35th mission of the US Space Shuttle program, carrying the Hubble space telescope

1969 Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead

Famous Weddings
1558 Mary, Queen of Scots (15) marries French dauphin Francis (14) at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris

1575 William the Silent marries 3rd wife Charlotte de Bourbon and former French nun

1854 Austria’s Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E “Sissi”