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April 24
What happened on this day
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Easter Rising begins
110 years ago
Irish republicans seize buildings across Dublin in 1916 and proclaim a republic; the rebellion fails in six days, but the executions that follow turn opinion towards independence.
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Hubble launched
36 years ago
Space Shuttle Discovery carries the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit in 1990, revolutionising astronomy.
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Armenian genocide remembered
111 years ago
Armenians mark the 1915 arrest and deportation of Constantinople's Armenian intellectuals, the start of the killings.
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