About April 24
April 24, 2021 is the 114th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Saturday.
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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 283 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1907 –Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
- 1915 –The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
- 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.
- 1932 –Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
- 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 –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 Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
- 1970 –The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
- 1971 –Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
- 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.
- 2007 –Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
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