On April 24, 1962, MIT achieved the first satellite television signal relay between Camp Parks, California, and Westford, Massachusetts.

After the Civil War, the North was ordered out of New Orleans in 1877.

In 1915, the Ottoman Empire began rounding up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople.

Black protesters staging a “wade-in” at a whites-only beach in Biloxi, Mississippi, were attacked by whites in 1960.

After the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961, the White House stated that President John F. Kennedy “solely bears responsibility for the events of the past few days.”

He was the first human fatality when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft smashed into the Earth in 1967 after his parachutes failed to deploy properly during re-entry.

In 1980, the US launched an unsuccessful mission to free American hostages in Iran, which killed eight US servicemen.

In 1990, the Discovery shuttle launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the $1.5 billion Hubble telescope.

The final Unabomber bomb detonated in 1995 inside the Sacramento, California, offices of a wood products lobbying group, killing chief lobbyist Gilbert B. Murray. For a series of bombings that killed three men and injured 29, Theodore Kaczynski received four life sentences.

In his installation homily, former Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said that as pontiff, he would listen to God’s will in governing the world’s 1.1 billion Catholics.

In 2013, an eight-story commercial building in Bangladesh housing garment factories collapsed, killing over 1100 people.

In 2019, avowed racist John William King was executed in Texas for the 1998 murder of James Byrd Jr., who was dragged along a road outside Jasper, Texas.

In 2020, the FDA warned against using a malaria drug that President Donald Trump had repeatedly endorsed for coronavirus patients. A day after Trump mused about it during a White House briefing, the parent company of Lysol and another disinfectant warned against using its products as an internal treatment for the coronavirus.

At the University of North Carolina, President Barack Obama told students that he and First Lady Michelle Obama had “been in your shoes” and had paid off their student loans eight years earlier. In New York, Mitt Romney defeated Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Five years ago, Arkansas completed the nation’s first double execution since 2000, just days after ending a nearly 12-year hiatus. During a congratulatory call from President Donald Trump to the International Space Station, Peggy Whitson broke the US record for most time in space.

A year ago, flames engulfed a Baghdad hospital’s intensive care unit for coronavirus patients, killing over 80 and injuring over 100. For decades, the White House avoided using the term “genocide” for fear of offending its ally Turkey.

Today is Shirley MacLaine’s 88th birthday. Barbra Streisand is 80. Richard M. Daley is 80. Richard Sterban (Oak Ridge Boys) is 79. Doug Clifford (Creedence Clearwater Revival) turned 77.

Ann Peebles is 75. Enda Kenny, 71, is a former Irish Taoiseach. Eric Bogosian is 69. Jack Blades (Night Ranger) is 68. Michael O’Keefe, 67. David J (Bauhaus) is 65. Glenn Morshower, 63.

Billy Gould is 59. Cedric the Entertainer is 58. Djimon Hounsou (OHN’-soo) is 58. Patty Schemel is 55. Stacy Haiduk, 54, Aaron Comess (Spin Doctors) turns 54. Aidan Gillen, 54, Clarke is 53. Rory McCann, 53. Alejandro Fernandez is 51. Brad Morgan (Drive-By Truckers) is 51. Brian Marshall (Creed, Alter Bridge) turns 49. Derek Luke has 48.

Thad Luckinbill is 47. Eric Balfour, 45, Rebecca Mader has 45. Rebecca Lynn Howard is 43. Danny Gokey is 42. Reagan Gomez, 42. Austin Nichols, 42. Sasha Barrese, 41. Jasen Rauch (Red) is 41. Kelly Clarkson turns 40. Tyson Ritter (The All-American Rejects) is 38. Carly Pearce is 32. Joe Keery turns 30. Jack Quaid turns 30. Doc Shaw has 30. Jordan Fisher has 28. Lydia Ko is 25.

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