On this day in history - Today, April, 24

Today in History

• 1915 The Ottoman Empire begins its systematic extermination of Armenians

  An estimated 1 million people were killed in the Armenian Massacres during and after World War I. Th

• 1957 The Suez Canal reopens after the Suez Crisis

  The conflict between Egypt on the one hand and France, the United Kingdom and Israel on the other, e

• 1990 The Hubble Space Telescope is launched into Earth orbit

  Unhindered by the impurities and distortions of Earth's atmosphere, the 2.4 meter (7.9 feet) apertur

• 2005 Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as Pope Benedict XVI

  The German was considered a particularly conservative Pope - quite unlike his successor, Pope Franci

• 2013 1129 people die in Bangladesh in the worst building collapse disaster in modern history

  The building was used by clothing factories producing garments for western markets, highlighting the