About April 24
April 24, 2025 is the 114th 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.
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Taurus is the sun 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.
What Happened On April 24
- 1704 –The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1800 –The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”.
- 1862 –American Civil War: A flotilla commanded by Union Admiral David Farragut passes two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River on its way to capture New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 1877 –Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
- 1907 –Al Ahly was founded.
- 1907 –Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
- 1913 –The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
- 1915 –The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
- 1916 –Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
- 1918 –First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met 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.
- 1953 –Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1963 –Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 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.
- 1970 –The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
- 1971 –Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
- 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.
- 2005 –Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
- 2006 –King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
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