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What Happened on April 24th This Day in History

Year	Name
2013	A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
2013	Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
2011	WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
2005	Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
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.
1996	In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
1993	An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
1990	STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
1990	Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1980	Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
1970	China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
1970	The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
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".
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.
1963	Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
1957	Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
1955	The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
1953	Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1944	World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
1933	Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
1932	Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
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.
1924	Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark (first term).
1922	The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
1918	World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
1916	Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.
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 crew of the sunken Endurance.
1915	The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide.
1914	The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
1913	The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
1895	Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
1885	American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
1877	Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1837	The great fire in Surat city of India caused more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9000 houses.
1800	The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
1793	French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris.
1704	The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
1558	Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
1547	Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
1479	Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
1183	Traditional reckoning of the Fall of Troy marking the end of the legendary Trojan War, given by chief librarian of the Library of Alexandria Eratosthenes, among others.

Famous People Born on April 24

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Year	Name
1885	Thomas Cronan, American triple jumper (d. 1962)
1955	Guy Nève, Belgian race car driver (d. 1992)
1981	Yuko Nakanishi, Japanese swimmer
1968	Todd Jones, American baseball player
1954	Mumia Abu-Jamal, American journalist, activist, and convicted murderer
1930	José Sarney, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 31st President of Brazil
1897	Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist, anthropologist, and engineer (d. 1941)
1955	Marion Caspers-Merk, German politician
1882	Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish-English air marshal (d. 1970)
1987	Jan Vertonghen, Belgian international footballer

Famous People Deaths On April 24

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Date	Name
1976	Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890)
2011	Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philanthropist (b. 1926)
1941	Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)
1972	Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
1617	Concino Concini, Italian-French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1575)
1964	Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist (b. 1895)
1948	Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer (b. 1863)
2016	Tommy Kono, American weightlifter and coach (b. 1930)
2005	Ezer Weizman, Israeli general and politician, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924)
1288	Gertrude of Austria (b. 1226)