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April 24 is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 251 days remain until the end of the year.
Events Pre-1600 1601–1900 1901–present 1913 – The Woolworth Building , a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment , a pillar of quantum mechanics , is presented to the German Physical Society .1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide .1916 – Easter Rising : Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly , launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic .1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken Endurance . 1918 – World War I : First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux . Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs .1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire , England, and Cairo , Egypt, comes into operation.1924 – Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark (first term).[4] 1926 – The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.1932 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout , leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.1933 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg .1944 – World War II : The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II .1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism , racism , and the Cold War .1957 – Suez Crisis : The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.1963 – Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.1965 – Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch .1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.1967 – Vietnam War : American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily". 1970 – China launches Dong Fang Hong I , becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.[5] 1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations , with Dawda Jawara as its first President . 1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis .1990 – STS-31 : The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery .1990 – Gruinard Island , Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine . 1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction .2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI .2011 – WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak .2013 – A building collapses near Dhaka , Bangladesh , killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.2013 – Violence in Bachu County , Kashgar Prefecture , of China 's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people. Births Pre-1600 1086 – Ramiro II of Aragon (d. 1157)1492 – Sabina of Bavaria , Bavarian duchess and noblewoman (d. 1564)1532 – Thomas Lucy , English politician (d. 1600)1533 – William I of Orange , founding father of the Netherlands (d. 1584)1538 – Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (d. 1587)1545 – Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton , English Earl (d. 1581)1562 – Xu Guangqi , Ming Dynasty Chinese politician, scholar and lay Catholic leader (d. 1633)1581 – Vincent de Paul , French priest and saint (d. 1660)1601–1900 1608 – Gaston, Duke of Orléans , third son of King Henry IV of France (d. 1660)1620 – John Graunt , English demographer and statistician (d. 1674)1706 – Giovanni Battista Martini , Italian pianist and composer (d. 1780)1718 – Nathaniel Hone the Elder , Irish-English painter and educator (d. 1784)1743 – Edmund Cartwright , English clergyman and engineer, invented the power loom (d. 1823)1784 – Peter Vivian Daniel , American lawyer and jurist (d. 1860)1815 – Anthony Trollope , English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (d. 1882)1823 – Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada , Mexican politician, President of Mexico (d. 1889)1845 – Carl Spitteler , Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)[6] 1856 – Philippe Pétain , French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (d. 1951)1860 – Queen Marau , last Queen of Tahiti (d.1935)1862 – Tomitaro Makino , Japanese botanist (d. 1957)1868 – Sandy Herd , Scottish golfer (d. 1944)1876 – Erich Raeder , German admiral (d. 1960)1878 – Jean Crotti , Swiss-French painter (d. 1958)1879 – Susanna Bokoyni , Hungarian-American circus performer (d. 1984)1880 – Gideon Sundback , Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper (d. 1954)1880 – Josef Müller , Croatian entomologist (d. 1964) 1882 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding , Scottish-English air marshal (d. 1970)1885 – Thomas Cronan , American triple jumper (d. 1962)1885 – Con Walsh , Irish-Canadian hammer thrower and footballer (d. 1961) 1887 – Denys Finch Hatton , English hunter (d. 1931)1888 – Pe Maung Tin , Burma -based scholar and educator (d. 1973)1889 – Stafford Cripps , English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1952)1889 – Lyubov Popova , Russian painter and academic (d. 1924) 1897 – Manuel Ávila Camacho , Mexican colonel and politician, 45th President of Mexico (d. 1955)1897 – Benjamin Lee Whorf , American linguist, anthropologist, and engineer (d. 1941) 1899 – Oscar Zariski , Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986)1900 – Elizabeth Goudge , English author and educator (d. 1984) [7] [8] 1901–present 1903 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera , Spanish lawyer and politician, founded the Falange (d. 1936)1904 – Willem de Kooning , Dutch-American painter and educator (d. 1997)1905 – Al Bates , American long jumper (d. 1999)1905 – Robert Penn Warren , American novelist, poet, and literary critic (d. 1989) 1906 – William Joyce , American-born Irish-British Nazi propaganda broadcaster (d. 1946)1906 – Mimi Smith , English nurse (d. 1991) 1907 – Gabriel Figueroa , Mexican cinematographer (d. 1997)1908 – Marceline Day , American actress (d. 2000)1908 – Inga Gentzel , Swedish runner (d. 1991) 1908 – Józef Gosławski , Polish sculptor (d. 1963) 1912 – Ruth Osburn , American discus thrower (d. 1994)1913 – Dieter Grau , German-American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)1914 – William Castle , American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1977)1914 – Phil Watson , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1991) 1914 – Justin Wilson , American chef and author (d. 2001) 1916 – Lou Thesz , American wrestler and trainer (d. 2002)1919 – David Blackwell , American mathematician and academic (d. 2010)1919 – Glafcos Clerides , Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (d. 2013) 1920 – Gino Valenzano , Italian race car driver (d. 2011)1922 – Marc-Adélard Tremblay , Canadian anthropologist and academic (d. 2014)1923 – Gus Bodnar , Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2005)1923 – Doris Burn , American author and illustrator (d. 2011) 1924 – Clement Freud , German-English radio host, academic, and politician (d. 2009)1924 – Ruth Kobart , American actress and singer (d. 2002) 1925 – Franco Leccese , Italian sprinter (d. 1992)1926 – Marilyn Erskine , American actress1926 – Thorbjörn Fälldin , Swedish farmer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 2016) 1927 – Josy Barthel , Luxembourgian runner and politician, Luxembourgian Minister for Energy (d. 1992)1928 – Tommy Docherty , Scottish footballer and manager (d. 2020)1928 – Johnny Griffin , American saxophonist (d. 2008) 1928 – Anahit Perikhanian , Russian-born Armenian Iranologist (d. 2012)[9] 1929 – Dr. Rajkumar , Indian actor and singer (d. 2006)1930 – Jerome Callet , American instrument designer, educator, and author (d. 2019)1930 – Richard Donner , American actor, director, and producer (d. 2021) 1930 – José Sarney , Brazilian lawyer and politician, 31st President of Brazil 1931 – Abdelhamid Kermali , Algerian footballer and manager (d. 2013)1931 – Bridget Riley , English painter and illustrator 1934 – Jayakanthan , Indian journalist and author (d. 2015)1934 – Shirley MacLaine , American actress, singer, and dancer 1936 – David Crombie , Canadian educator and politician, 56th Mayor of Toronto 1936 – Jill Ireland , English actress (d. 1990) 1937 – Joe Henderson , American saxophonist and composer (d. 2001)1940 – Sue Grafton , American author (d. 2017)1941 – Richard Holbrooke , American journalist, banker, and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2010)1941 – John Williams , Australian-English guitarist and composer 1942 – Richard M. Daley , American lawyer and politician, 54th Mayor of Chicago 1942 – Barbra Streisand , American singer, actress, activist, and producer 1943 – Richard Sterban , American country and gospel bass singer1943 – Gordon West , English footballer (d. 2012) 1944 – Peter Cresswell , English judge1944 – Maarja Nummert , Estonian architect 1944 – Tony Visconti , American record producer, musician and singer 1945 – Doug Clifford , American drummer and songwriter1946 – Doug Christie , Canadian lawyer and activist (d. 2013)1947 – Josep Borrell , Spanish engineer and politician, 22nd President of the European Parliament 1947 – João Braz de Aviz , Brazilian cardinal 1947 – Claude Dubois , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1947 – Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill , New Zealand-English lawyer and politician 1947 – Roger D. Kornberg , American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate 1948 – Paul Cellucci , American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2013)1948 – Eliana Gil , Ecuadorian-American psychiatrist, therapist, and author 1949 – Eddie Hart , American sprinter1949 – Véronique Sanson , French singer-songwriter and producer 1950 – Rob Hyman , American singer-songwriter and musician1951 – Ron Arad , Israeli architect and academic1951 – Christian Bobin , French author and poet 1951 – Nigel Harrison , English bass player and songwriter 1951 – Enda Kenny , Irish educator and politician, 13th Taoiseach of Ireland 1952 – Jean Paul Gaultier , French fashion designer1952 – Ralph Winter , American film producer 1953 – Eric Bogosian , American actor and writer1954 – Mumia Abu-Jamal , American journalist, activist, and convicted murderer1954 – Jack Blades , American singer-songwriter and bass player 1955 – Marion Caspers-Merk , German politician1955 – John de Mol Jr. , Dutch businessman, co-founded Endemol 1955 – Eamon Gilmore , Irish trade union leader and politician, 25th Tánaiste of Ireland 1955 – Margaret Moran , British politician and criminal 1955 – Guy Nève , Belgian race car driver (d. 1992) 1955 – Michael O'Keefe , American actor 1955 – Bill Osborne , New Zealand rugby player 1956 – James A. Winnefeld, Jr. , American admiral1957 – Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed , Pakistani-English businessman and politician1958 – Brian Paddick , English police officer and politician1959 – Paula Yates , British-Australian television host and author (d. 2000)1961 – Andrew Murrison , English physician and politician, Minister for International Security Strategy 1962 – Clemens Binninger , German politician1962 – Stuart Pearce , English footballer, coach, and manager 1962 – Steve Roach , Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster 1963 – Paula Frazer , American singer-songwriter and guitarist1963 – Billy Gould , American bass player, songwriter, and producer 1963 – Mano Solo , French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2010) 1964 – Helga Arendt , German sprinter (d. 2013)1964 – Cedric the Entertainer , American comedian, actor, and producer 1964 – Djimon Hounsou , Beninese-American actor and producer 1964 – Witold Smorawiński , Polish guitarist, composer, and educator 1965 – Jeff Jackson , Canadian ice hockey player and manager1966 – Pierre Brassard , Canadian comedian and actor1966 – Alessandro Costacurta , Italian footballer, coach, and manager 1966 – David Usher , English-Canadian singer-songwriter 1967 – Dino Rađa , Croatian basketball player[10] 1967 – Omar Vizquel , Venezuelan-American baseball player and coach 1968 – Aidan Gillen , Irish actor1968 – Todd Jones , American baseball player 1968 – Roxanna Panufnik , English composer 1968 – Hashim Thaçi , Kosovan soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Kosovo 1969 – Elias Atmatsidis , Greek footballer1969 – Rory McCann , Scottish actor 1969 – Eilidh Whiteford , Scottish academic and politician 1970 – Damien Fleming , Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster1971 – Kumar Dharmasena , Sri Lankan cricketer and umpire1971 – Mauro Pawlowski , Belgian singer-songwriter and guitarist 1972 – Rab Douglas , Scottish footballer1972 – Chipper Jones , American baseball player 1972 – Jure Košir , Slovenian skier and singer 1973 – Gabby Logan , English gymnast, television and radio host1973 – Damon Lindelof , American screenwriter and producer 1973 – Brian Marshall , American bass player and songwriter 1973 – Eric Snow , American basketball player and coach 1973 – Sachin Tendulkar , Indian cricketer 1973 – Toomas Tohver , Estonian footballer 1973 – Lee Westwood , English golfer 1974 – Eric Kripke , American director, producer, and screenwriter1974 – Stephen Wiltshire , English illustrator 1975 – Dejan Savić , Yugoslavian and Serbian water polo player1976 – Steve Finnan , Irish international footballer[11] 1976 – Frédéric Niemeyer , Canadian tennis player and coach 1977 – Carlos Beltrán , Puerto Rican-American baseball player1977 – Diego Placente , Argentine footballer 1978 – Diego Quintana , Argentine footballer1980 – Fernando Arce , Mexican footballer1980 – Karen Asrian , Armenian chess player (d. 2008) 1981 – Taylor Dent , American tennis player1981 – Yuko Nakanishi , Japanese swimmer 1982 – Kelly Clarkson , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress1982 – David Oliver , American hurdler 1982 – Simon Tischer , German volleyball player 1983 – Hanna Melnychenko , Ukrainian heptathlete1985 – Mike Rodgers , American sprinter1986 – Aaron Cunningham , American baseball player1987 – Ben Howard , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1987 – Kris Letang , Canadian ice hockey player 1987 – Rein Taaramäe , Estonian cyclist 1987 – Jan Vertonghen , Belgian international footballer[12] 1987 – Varun Dhawan , Indian actor 1989 – Elīna Babkina , Latvian basketball player1989 – David Boudia , American diver 1989 – Taja Mohorčič , Slovenian tennis player 1990 – Kim Tae-ri , South Korean actress1990 – Jan Veselý , Czech basketball player 1991 – Sigrid Agren , French-Swedish model1991 – Morgan Ciprès , French figure skater 1991 – Batuhan Karadeniz , Turkish footballer 1992 – Joe Keery , American actor1992 – Laura Kenny , English cyclist 1993 – Ben Davies , Welsh international footballer[13] 1994 – Jordan Fisher , American singer, dancer, and actor[14] 1994 – Caspar Lee , British-South African Youtuber 1996 – Ashleigh Barty , Australian tennis player1997 – Lydia Ko , New Zealand golfer1997 – Veronika Kudermetova , Russian tennis player 1998 – Ryan Newman , American actress1999 – Jerry Jeudy , American football player[15] Deaths Pre-1600 1601–1900 1617 – Concino Concini , Italian-French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1575)1622 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen , German friar and saint (b. 1577)1656 – Thomas Fincke , Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)1731 – Daniel Defoe , English journalist, novelist, and spy (b. 1660)1748 – Anton thor Helle , German-Estonian clergyman and translator (b. 1683)1779 – Eleazar Wheelock , American minister and academic, founded Dartmouth College (b. 1711)1794 – Axel von Fersen the Elder , Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1719)1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky , Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)1889 – Zulma Carraud , French author (b. 1796)[17] 1891 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder , German field marshal (b. 1800)1901–present 1924 – G. Stanley Hall , American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)1931 – David Kldiashvili , Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)1935 – Anastasios Papoulas , Greek general (b. 1857)1938 – George Grey Barnard , American sculptor (b. 1863)1939 – Louis Trousselier , French cyclist (b. 1881)1941 – Karin Boye , Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)1942 – Lucy Maud Montgomery , Canadian author (b. 1874)1944 – Charles Jordan , American magician (b. 1888)1945 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz , German physician (b. 1899)1947 – Hans Biebow , German SS officer (b. 1902)1947 – Willa Cather , American novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1873) 1948 – Jāzeps Vītols , Latvian composer (b. 1863)1954 – Guy Mairesse , French race car driver (b. 1910)1960 – Max von Laue , German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)1961 – Lee Moran , American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1888)1962 – Milt Franklyn , American composer (b. 1897)1964 – Gerhard Domagk , German pathologist and bacteriologist (b. 1895)1965 – Louise Dresser , American actress (b. 1878)1966 – Simon Chikovani , Georgian poet and author (b. 1902)1967 – Vladimir Komarov , Russian pilot, engineer, and cosmonaut (b. 1927)1967 – Robert Richards , Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia (b. 1885) 1968 – Walter Tewksbury , American athlete (b. 1876)[18] 1970 – Otis Spann , American singer and pianist (b. 1930)1972 – Fernando Amorsolo , Filipino painter (b. 1892)1974 – Bud Abbott , American comedian and producer (b. 1895)1975 – Pete Ham , Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)1976 – Mark Tobey , American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890)1980 – Alejo Carpentier , Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (b. 1904)1982 – Ville Ritola , Finnish runner (b. 1896)1983 – Erol Güngör , Turkish sociologist, psychologist, and academic (b. 1938)1983 – Rolf Stommelen , German race car driver (b. 1943) 1984 – Rafael Pérez y Pérez , Spanish author (b. 1891)1993 – Oliver Tambo , South African lawyer and activist (b. 1917)1993 – Tran Duc Thao , Vietnamese philosopher and theorist (b. 1917) 1995 – Lodewijk Bruckman , Dutch painter (b. 1903)1997 – Allan Francovich , American director and producer (b. 1941)1997 – Pat Paulsen , American comedian and activist (b. 1927) 1997 – Eugene Stoner , American engineer, designed the AR-15 rifle (b. 1922) 2001 – Josef Peters , German race car driver (b. 1914)2001 – Johnny Valentine , American wrestler (b. 1928) 2002 – Lucien Wercollier , Luxembourgian sculptor (b. 1908)2003 – Nüzhet Gökdoğan , Turkish astronomer and mathematician (b. 1910)[19] 2004 – José Giovanni , French-Swiss director and producer (b. 1923)2004 – Estée Lauder , American businesswoman, co-founded Estée Lauder Companies (b. 1906) 2005 – Ezer Weizman , Israeli general and politician, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924)2005 – Fei Xiaotong , Chinese sociologist and academic (b. 1910) 2006 – Brian Labone , English footballer (b. 1940)2006 – Moshe Teitelbaum , Romanian-American rabbi and author (b. 1914) 2008 – Jimmy Giuffre , American clarinet player, and saxophonist, and composer (b. 1921)2011 – Sathya Sai Baba , Indian guru and philanthropist (b. 1926)2014 – Hans Hollein , Austrian architect, designed Haas House (b. 1934)2014 – Sandy Jardine , Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1948) 2014 – Shobha Nagi Reddy , Indian politician (b. 1968) 2014 – Tadeusz Różewicz , Polish poet and playwright (b. 1921) 2015 – Władysław Bartoszewski , Polish journalist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1922)2016 – Tommy Kono , American weightlifter and coach (b. 1930)2017 – Robert Pirsig , American author and philosopher (b. 1928)Holidays and observances Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia , France )[20] Christian feast day : Concord Day (Niger )Democracy Day (Nepal) Earliest day on which Arbor Day can fall, while April 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Friday in April. (United States) Earliest day on which Turkmen Racing Horse Festival can fall, while April 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in April. (Turkmenistan ) Fashion Revolution Day , and its related observances:National Panchayati Raj Day (India)Republic Day (The Gambia) World Day for Laboratory Animals References ^ Kokkinos, Nikos (31 December 2009). "Ancient Chronology, Eratosthenes and the Dating of the Fall of Troy" . Ancient West & East . 8 : 37–56. doi :10.2143/AWE.8.0.2045837 . Retrieved 14 March 2020 . ^ Loomis, Stanley (1 June 1990). Paris in the Terror . Dorset House Publishing Co Inc. ISBN 978-0880294010 . ^ Gujarat State Gazetteers: Surat District (2nd (Revised in 1962), 1st (1877) ed.). Ahmedabad: Directorate of Government Printing, Stationery and Publications, Gujarat State. 1962. pp. 976–978.^ Skou, Kaare R. (2005). Dansk politik A-Å (in Danish) . Aschehoug, pp. 110, 638-639.ISBN 87-11-11652-8 . ^ "PRC 1" . National Space Science Data Center. 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