About April 24
April 24, 2022 is the 114th day of the year 2022 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 273 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).
- 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 –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 –Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
- 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.
- 1965 –Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
- 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.
- 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 –STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 1996 –In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.
- 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 –Snuppy, the world’s first cloned dog, is born in South Korea.
- 2007 –Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
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