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Library of Congress created
On April 24, 1800, U.S. President John Adams
approved $5,000 to fund the establishment of the U.S. Library of
Congress. Learn more about the
history of the
U.S. Library of Congress.
WWI gas attack on Canadians led to first chemical weapons ban
On April 24, 1915, the German army used chlorine
gas against Canadian troops at Ypres. Gas was later employed by
British and French forces against the Germans.Learn more about early efforts by the
Red Cross to ban
chemical weapons and review the June 1925 Protocol
for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or
other Gases and of Bacteriological Methods of
Warfare.
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