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Today in History: April 24

1519 Envoys of Montezuma II attend the first Easter mass in Central America.

1800 The Library of Congress is established in Washington, D.C. with a $5,000 allocation.

1877 Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.

1898 Spain declares war on United States, rejecting an ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba.

1944 The first B-29 arrives in China, over the Hump of the Himalayas.

1948 The Berlin airlift begins to relieve the surrounded city.

1980 A rescue attempt of the U.S. hostages held in Iran fails when a plane collides with a helicopter in the Iranian desert.

1981 The IBM Personal Computer is introduced.


Born on April 24

1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder of the Farmer's Almanac.


JOTD

A nice, calm and respectable lady went into the pharmacy.

She walked right up to the pharmacist, looked straight into his eyes, and said, "I would like to buy some cyanide."
The pharmacist asked, "Why in the world do you need cyanide?"
The lady replied, "I need it to poison my husband."
The pharmacist's eyes got big and he exclaimed, "Lord have mercy! I can't give you cyanide to kill your husband! That's against the law! I'll lose my license! They'll throw both of us in jail! All kinds of bad things will happen. Absolutely not! You CANNOT have any cyanide!"
The lady reached into her purse and pulled out a picture of her husband in bed with the pharmacist's wife.
The pharmacist looked at the picture and replied, "Well now. That's different. You didn't tell me you had a prescription."