How Many Days Until April 24?

This day in history: April 24

1. 1980

   Eight U.S. servicemen died in Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue the captives in the Iran hostage crisis.

2. 1990

   Gruinard Island in Scotland, the site of biological warfare testing by British scientists, was declared free of anthrax after 48 years of quarantine.

3. 1990

   The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery.

4. 1993

   The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in London's financial district in Bishopsgate, killing one person, injuring forty-four others, and causing damage that cost £350 million to repair.

5. 2003

   A backhoe breached a pipeline in Toronto, Canada, which caused a gas explosion that killed seven people.

6. 2011

   Secret documents relating to detainees at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp were released on WikiLeaks and several independent news organizations.

7. 2013

   A building in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,134 people, making it the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern history.

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