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
- 1558 –Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
- 1877 –Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
- 1898 –The Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
- 1904 –The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
- 1907 –Al Ahly was founded.
- 1922 –The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
- 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.
- 1953 –Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1955 –The Bandung Conference ends: 29 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 HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 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.”
- 1968 –Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
- 1970 –The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
- 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.
- 2005 –Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
- 2005 –Snuppy, the world’s first cloned dog, is born in South Korea.
- 2006 –King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
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