April 24th
Today in America's Present Past
1766 | Journalist and publisher Robert Bailey Thomas was born.
1779 | Educator Eleazar Wheelock died.
1784 | SCOTUS: Justice Peter Vivian Daniel was born.
1800 | Congress: The Library of Congress is established with a $5,000 allocation.
1804 | Admiral Thomas Oliver Selfridge was born.
1833 | Jacob Evert and George Dulty patent the first soda fountain.
1850 | Travel journalist John Lawson Stoddard was born.
1877 | Civil Rights: The last federal occupying troops withdrew from the South as a part of the reconstruction.
1888 | Entrepreneur George Eastman founded Eastman Kodak.
1897 | POTUS: William Price of the Washington Star is the first journalist assigned to cover the White House.
1905 | Author Robert Penn Warren earned the Pulitzer Prize.
1934 | Entertainer Shirley MacLaine was born.
1938 | Sculptor George Grey Barnard died.
1942 | Entertainer Barbara Streisand was born.
1968 | Actress Stacy Haiduk was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
1974 | Actor William "Bud" Abbott died.
1982 | Musician Kelly Clarkston was born.
1983 | Entrepreneur Alexis Ohanian was born.
1997 | Entrepreneur Eugene Stoner died.
1997 | Comedian Pat Paulsen died.
2004 | Entrepreneur Estée Lauder died.
2013 | Actress Melissa Gilbert weds Timothy Busfield.
2017 | Author Robert M. Pirsig died.