Welcome to Your Daily History for April 24th

1479 BC - Thutmose III becomes pharaoh of Egypt before power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut

1184 BC - The Greeks enter Troy using the infamous Trojan Horse bringing an end to The Trojan War

1800 - The Library of Congress is established with a $5,000.00 grant

1953 - Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II

1990 - The Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off from Cape Canaveral, FL. The payload is the Hubble Space Telescope