About April 24
April 24, 2024 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.
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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 280 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 24
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1993 –An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
- 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.
- 2007 –Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
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