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April 24th, 2007	Event	Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
April 24th, 2006	Event	King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
April 24th, 2005	Event	Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
April 24th, 2004	Event	The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
April 24th, 1996	Event	In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.
April 24th, 1993	Event	The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act comes into force establishing Panchayati Raj system in India.
April 24th, 1993	Event	An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
April 24th, 1991	Event	Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918.
April 24th, 1990	Event	STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery.
April 24th, 1990	Event	Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.

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