(Saturday, April 24, 1965) — “The Game of Love” by Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders peaked at #1 on today’s Billboard‘s Hot 100 singles chart for one week.
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‘Tired of Waiting for You’ by The Kinks peaks at #6 in USA 50 years ago today (Apr 24 1965)
(Saturday, April 24, 1965) — “Tired of Waiting for You” by The Kinks peaked at #6 on today’s Billboard‘s Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks.
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‘Ticket to Ride’ by The Beatles debuts at #59 in USA 50 years ago today (Apr 24 1965)
(Saturday, April 24, 1965) — “Ticket to Ride” by The Beatles debuted at #59 on today’s Billboard‘s Hot 100 singles chart. It was the group’s 34th appearance on the chart since Jan. 18, 1964.
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Lincoln Funeral Train arrives in New York City 150 years ago this hour (Apr 24 1865)
Video: 'Ken Burns The Civil War: Episode 9 The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865) |Ken Burns Docum' (Apr. 24, 1865 at 22:25)
(Monday, April 24, 1865, 10:50 a.m.; during the American Civil War) — The remains U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and his deceased son, William Wallace Lincoln, stopped in New York City today on a 1,654 mile journey to Springfield, Illinois, for final burial.
A young Theodore Roosevelt witnessed the four-hour procession to City Hall for public viewing.
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Stimson requests meeting with Truman to discuss ‘highly secret matter’ 70 years ago today (Apr 24 1945)
Video: 'The World At War 1973(World War II Documentary)Episode 24-The Bomb(February–September 1945)' (Apr. 24, 1945, at 8:55)
(Tuesday, April 24, 1945; during World War II) — U.S. Secretary of War Henry Simson wrote a memo today to President Harry Truman about the urgent need to discuss a “highly secret matter,” the atomic bomb.
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Eyewitnesses provide filmed testimonies of Nazi atrocities 70 years ago today (Apr 24 1945)
Video: 'Memory of the Camps 1985 PL hardsubs DVBRip' (Apr. 24, 1945, at 19:02/27:30)
(Tuesday, April 24, 1945; part of The Holocaust during World War II) — Eyewitnesses today provided filmed testimonies of the Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen, liberated Apr. 15, 1945, in Lower Saxony in northern Germany, southwest of the town of Bergen near Celle, by British and Canadian troops. Continue reading Eyewitnesses provide filmed testimonies of Nazi atrocities 70 years ago today (Apr 24 1945)
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Armenian Genocide begins 100 years ago today (Apr 24 1915)
Video: '1915 AGHET - The Armenian Genocide (In English)'
(Saturday, April 24, 1915, during World War I) — What’s regarded as the start of the Armenian Genocide, which resulted in the death of one to 1.5 million people, began today as the Ottoman Empire rounded up and arrested some 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Constantinople. Continue reading Armenian Genocide begins 100 years ago today (Apr 24 1915)
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Badfinger’s Pete Ham commits suicide 40 years ago today (Apr 24 1975)
Video: 'Badfinger Doc 4 of 6' (Apr. 23-24, 1975, at 7:10)
(Friday, April 24, 1975, early morning BST) — Peter Ham, 27, of British rock band Badfinger hanged himself early this morning in his garage studio in Woking, just outside London. He was reported to be depressed about the band’s financial problems.
