This Day In History April 24th

Wow is it really April 24th already?!?!? Is May almost here? Yikes!

April 24th
1704
The Boston News Letter became the first American newspaper to be published on a regular basis.
1800
Congress established the Library of Congress.
1981
IBM introduced its first personal computer.
1987
Genetically altered bacteria, designed to prevent frost damage, were sprayed on a California strawberry field in the first test of such biotechnology in nature.
1991
The first U.N. peacekeeping forces were deployed along the Kuwait-Iraq border.
1991
Freddie Stowers, a World War I corporal, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor to become the first African-American to receive the highest medal for valor in combat.
1995
The UNAbomber struck again: a mail bomb killed Gilbert Murray, president of the California Forestry Association, in Sacramento.
1996
President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill to fight terrorism.
1996
The Palestinian National Council voted to drop its official commitment to the destruction of Israel.
1997
Opening statements began in Denver in the federal court trial of suspected Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh.
1997
With ratification by the U.S. Senate, the United States became the 75th country to approve the Chemical Weapons Convention.
2003
North Korea announced it had nuclear weapons and had begun making bomb-grade plutonium.
2004
Greek Cypriot voters overwhelmingly rejected a U.N. plan for the reunification of the divided Mediterranean island.