April 24

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[edit] Events

• 1184 BC - Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse.
• 1915 - The Armenian Genocide begins with a massacre of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople (now Istanbul).
• 1975 - The Baader-Meinhof Gang blows up the West German embassy in Stockholm.
• 1993 - An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of City of London.
• 2005 - Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

[edit] Births

• 1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584)
• 1906 - William Joyce, Irish-American fascist (d. 1946)

[edit] Deaths

• 1947 - Hans Biebow, German Officer (by execution; b. 1902)