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 115th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 11, 2024 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,713,916,800 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 ‘hectadecapentagon’ 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 280 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 4,142 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 24 Historical Events
- 1479 BC –Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
- 1704 –The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 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 .
- 1922 –The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
- 1963 –Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 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.
- 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 introduced.
- 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?
- 1815 –Anthony Trollope, English novelist (d. 1882)
- 1887 –Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931)
- 1897 –Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist (d. 1941)
- 1900 –Elizabeth Goudge, English writer (d. 1984)
- 1924 –Ruth Kobart, American actor and singer (d. 2002)
- 1935 –Tucker Smith, American actor, dancer, and singer (d. 1988)
- 1945 –Dick Rivers, French singer and actor
- 1945 –Robert Knight, American singer
- 1957 –David J, British musician
- 1987 –Jan Vertonghen, Belgian footballer
Who died on April 24?
- 1656 –Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
- 1852 –Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
- 1924 –G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
- 1942 –Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
- 1966 –Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet (b. 1902)
- 1967 –Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1927)
- 1993 –Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher (b. 1917)
- 2000 –William Moore, English actor (b. 1916)
- 2005 –Ezer Weizman, Israeli politician (b. 1924)
- 2006 –Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
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