This Week In History
Let’s learn about our past!
4/27
• 2003 – Apple opens the iTunes Store, ushering in legal digital-music downloads
4/28
1789 – George Washington is sworn in as the first U.S. president in New York City
4/29
2011 – A global audience watches Prince William marry Catherine Middleton
4/30
1961 – Sierra Leone declares independence from Britain, with Sir Milton Margai as its first prime minister
1979 – Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party wins the U.K. general election (making her Britain’s first woman prime minister)
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2011 – U.S. special forces kill Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan
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1931 – New York’s Empire State Building opens, the world’s tallest building for 40 years