What are the important events that happened on April 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

April 24: Facts & Myths About This Day

April 24 is the 114^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 11, 2025 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 1,745,452,800 seconds has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectadecatetragon’ day.

Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 299 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,507 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

April 24 Historical Events

• 1907 –
  Al Ahly was founded.
• 1907 –
  Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
• 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 ice-trapped ship ship .
• 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.
• 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.”
• 1971 –
  Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
• 1990 –
  Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
• 1990 –
  STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
• 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.
• 2006 –
  King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.

Who were born on April 24?

• 1620 –
  John Graunt, English statistician and founder of the science of demography (d. 1674)
• 1903 –
  José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange (d. 1936)
• 1963 –
  Mano Solo, French singer
• 1963 –
  Paula Frazer, American singer-songwriter
• 1964 –
  Witold Smorawiński, Polish musician
• 1967 –
  Omar Vizquel, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1968 –
  Aidan Gillen, Irish actor
• 1973 –
  Gabby Logan, British television presenter
• 1981 –
  Taylor Dent, American tennis player
• 1987 –
  Jan Vertonghen, Belgian footballer

Who died on April 24?

• 1794 –
  Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier; father of Axel von Fersen the Younger (b. 1719)
• 1944 –
  Charles Jordan, American magician (b. 1888)
• 1947 –
  Hans Biebow, German WWII figure (b. 1902)
• 1967 –
  Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1927)
• 1980 –
  Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
• 1997 –
  Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician (b. 1927)
• 2000 –
  William Moore, English actor (b. 1916)
• 2006 –
  Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
• 2007 –
  Roy Jenson, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2011 –
  Marie-France Pisier, French actress (b. 1944)