Events on 24 April 38
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Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
Year 1558
Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
Year 1704
The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
Year 1800
The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
Year 1885
American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
Year 1895
Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
Year 1914
The Franck-Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
Year 1915
The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
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