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• 1. Kermit Washington vs. Rudy Tomjanovich
• With a fight already going on at midcourt of a 1977 game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Houston, the Rockets' Rudy Tomjanovich ran in to try to play peacemaker. Instead, he got one of the worst shots in sports history -- a right hand from the Lakers' Kermit Washington, forever known around the NBA as "The Punch." Tomjanovich was unconscious and bleeding, eventually needing multiple operations to repair facial fractures. He also suffered a concussion and other serious injuries. Tomjanovich returned the next season, though was never the same player again.
Today in History
The Associated Press
• Today is Tuesday, April 24, the 115th day of 2012. There are 251 days left in the year.
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• Today's Highlight in History:
• On April 24, 1962, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal, using NASA's Echo 1 balloon satellite to bounce a video image of the letters "M.I.T." transmitted from Camp Parks, Calif., to Westford, Mass.
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• On this date:
• In 1792, the national anthem of France, "La Marseillaise" (lah mahr-say-YEHZ'), was composed by Captain Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle.
• In 1800, Congress approved a bill establishing the Library of Congress.
• In 1898, Spain declared war on the United States. (The United States responded in kind the next day.)
• In 1915, what's regarded as the start of the Armenian genocide began as the Ottoman Empire rounded up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople.
• In 1916, some 1,600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin. (The rising was put down by British forces almost a week later.)
• In 1932, in the Free State of Prussia, the Nazi Party gained a plurality of seats in parliamentary elections.
• In 1953, British statesman Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
• In 1960, rioting erupted in Biloxi, Miss., after black protesters staging a "wade-in" at a whites-only beach were attacked by a crowd of hostile whites.
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