Notable Historical Events on April 24th
April 24th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1479 |
Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty). |
1184 |
The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date). |
BC AD | |
858 |
Nicholas I succeeds Benedict III as pope |
1066 |
Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed |
1185 |
Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet |
1288 |
Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder |
1311 |
Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India |
1364 |
Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht |
1524 |
Duke of Bourbon drives admiral Bonnivet out of Milan |
1547 |
Battle of Muhlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave |
1570 |
Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman |
1596 |
Pacificatie of Ireland drawn |
1704 |
"Boston News-Letter" 1st successful newspaper in US, forms |
1792 |
"La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle |
1800 |
Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation |
1801 |
1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten" |
1823 |
Eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique" premieres in Paris |
1833 |
Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent 1st soda fountain |
1863 |
Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid) |
1865 |
Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF) |
1867 |
Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars |
1872 |
Volcano Vesuvius erupts |
1877 |
Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans) |
1877 |
Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire. |
1880 |
Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford, England |
1883 |
28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair |
1884 |
National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta) |
1888 |
Eastman Kodak forms |
1891 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem" |
1894 |
French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18 |
1894 |
Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers |
1895 |
Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat |
1897 |
1st reporter, William Price (Wash Star), assigned to White House |
1898 |
US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines |
1898 |
Spanish-American War: Spain delares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba |
1899 |
Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid |
1900 |
Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer |
1901 |
1st AL game, Chic beats Cleve Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out |
1904 |
President Loubet of France visits King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and pointedly ignores the Pope, exacerbating relations between France and the Roman Catholic Church |
1905 |
1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey v Gentlemen (18 & 28) |
1905 |
Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3 |
1907 |
Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened. |
1908 |
Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car, they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m |
1909 |
Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds |
1910 |
German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms |
1913 |
Skyscraper, the Woolworth Building in New York City is opened |
1914 |
A shipment of 35,000 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF, an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland |
1915 |
German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper |
1915 |
Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day) |
1915 |
Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0 |
1916 |
Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins |
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 ice-trapped ship Endurance |
1917 |
Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway |
1920 |
British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years) |
1920 |
Polish troops attack Ukraine |
1921 |
1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium |
1923 |
General harbor strike begins in NYC |
1925 |
88°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April |
1928 |
Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented |
1929 |
1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off |
1929 |
Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark |
1932 |
German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia) |
1933 |
1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell) |
1938 |
Lindenheuvel soccer team forms |
1941 |
British army begins evacuation of Greece |
1941 |
Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot |
1942 |
Luftwaffe bombs Exeter |
1944 |
1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump" |
1944 |
RAF bombs Munich |
1944 |
United Negro College Fund incorporates |
1945 |
Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner |
1945 |
Delegates of 46 countries gather in SF (to discuss UN) |
1946 |
11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, & McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame |
1949 |
3rd Tony Awards: Death of a Salesman & Kiss Me Kate win |
1950 |
"Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances |
1950 |
Independent republic of South Molukkas declared |
1950 |
Pres Harry Truman denies there are communists in US government |
1950 |
Jordan formally annexes the West Bank |
1951 |
Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open |
1953 |
Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II |
1954 |
1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina |
1954 |
Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations |
1954 |
WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends |
1955 |
Gaullists lose elections in France |
1955 |
KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1955 |
KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1956 |
AL ump Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game |
1957 |
Chic Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning |
1958 |
Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2 |
1959 |
Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier) |
1959 |
WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
1960 |
14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win |
1960 |
Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed |
1960 |
Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open |
1960 |
Record 4 grand slams hit today |
1961 |
JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs |
1961 |
Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised |
1961 |
The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged. |
1962 |
1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested |
1962 |
MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA |
1962 |
Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game |
1963 |
17th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2 |
1963 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1964 |
Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
1965 |
"Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 perfs |
1965 |
Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic |
1965 |
NY Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager |
1966 |
Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee) |
1966 |
Carol Mann wins LPGA Peach Blossom Golf Invitational |
1967 |
21st NBA Championship: Phila 76ers beat SF Warriors, 4 games to 2 |
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 |
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas |
1968 |
Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC |
1968 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR |
1968 |
Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations. |
1969 |
Gen Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded |
1969 |
Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians |
1969 |
Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead |
1969 |
US B-52's drop 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary |
1969 |
Car firm British Leyland launch the Austin Maxi in Oporto Portugal |
1969 |
Loyalist members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV) explode a bomb at a water pipeline between Lough Neagh and Belfast, Northern Ireland |
1970 |
China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song "East is Red" |
1970 |
Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth |
1970 |
Senegal adopts constitution |
1971 |
"Frank Merriwell" opens and closes at Longacre Theater NYC (1 performance only) |
1971 |
Soyuz 10 returns to Earth |
1974 |
Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion |
1974 |
NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers |
1975 |
Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3 |
1975 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1977 |
Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA American Defender Golf Tournament |
1978 |
Angels Nolan Ryan strikes out 15 Mariners, 20th time he has 15 in game |
1979 |
Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election |
1980 |
US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die |
1981 |
Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey |
1981 |
IBM-PC computer introduced |
1981 |
San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record |
1981 |
US ends grain embargo against USSR |
1982 |
150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany |
1982 |
Cards win 12th game in a row; 7-4 over Phillies |
1982 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin |
1983 |
"Show Boat" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances |
1983 |
Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election |
1983 |
Hollis Stacy wins LPGA S&H Golf Classic |
1984 |
Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot |
1985 |
Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin" |
1987 |
Howard Stern holds a free speech rally at Dag Hammarskjold Plaza NYC |
1988 |
Rosie Jones wins LPGA USX Golf Classic |
1989 |
10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China |
1989 |
Massachusetts declares today "New Kids on the Block Day" |
1990 |
Brian Friel's "Dancing at Lughnasa" premieres in Dublin |
1990 |
Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies |
1990 |
US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit |
1990 |
West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st |
1990 |
Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine. |
1991 |
26th Academy of Country Music Awards: Garth Brooks |
1991 |
Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918. |
1992 |
"Man of La Mancha" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 108 performances |
1992 |
George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball |
1992 |
Vinson Pike fined £1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures |
1993 |
The IRA explodes a 1000kg car bomb in Bishopsgate, London, killing a news photographer and injuring 44 others |
1993 |
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham |
1994 |
"Broken Glass" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances |
1994 |
"Flowering Peach" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances |
1994 |
Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election |
1994 |
Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed |
1994 |
David Robinson scores ties 7th highest total in the NBA - 71 |
1994 |
NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs |
1995 |
Court orders Darryl Strawberry to pay back $350,000 in taxes |
1995 |
Dow Jones Index hits record 4303.98 |
1995 |
Package bomb, linked to Unabomber, blows up killing Gilbert B Murray |
1996 |
"Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore" opens at Belasco for 12 perf |
1996 |
31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain |
1996 |
Highest scoring baseball game in 17 years - Twins 24, Tigers 11 |
1996 |
The UNand Iraq end a third round of negotiations over Iraq's possible sale of $1 billion of oil for 90 days for a 180-day trial period |
1997 |
"Steel Peer" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 76 performances |
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. |
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. |
2013 |
33 people are killed and 115 are injured after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Jalalabad, Afghanistan |
2013 |
256 people are killed and 1,000 are injured after a building collapses Savar Upazila, Bangladesh |
2016 |
Death Toll From Ecuador Earthquake Tops 650 |
2016 |
Syrian Airstrikes Kill at Least 25 |
2016 |
Prince cremated; family, friends honor him at ceremony in Minnesota |
2016 |
North Korea says submarine ballistic missile test 'great success' |
2016 |
France calls on EU to adopt new sanctions against North Korea |
2016 |
Pilot lands solar-powered plane after risky flight across Pacific Ocean |
2016 |
North Korea 'will halt' nuclear tests if US stops S Korea exercises |
2016 |
North Korea 'fires submarine-launched ballistic missile' |
2017 |
China's Xi urges restraint on North Korea issue on call with Trump |
2017 |
Carrier group heads for Korean waters as Trump calls leaders |
2017 |
Final French vote count puts Macron, Le Pen through to second round |
2017 |
Japan's Nikkei hits near 3-week high on French vote relief, Sony climbs |
2017 |
North Korea detained a professor who is US citizen; at least 3rd American held |
2018 |
Driver kills nine, injures 16 ploughing van into Toronto sidewalk crowd |
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