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In June 2004, he was traded to the Houston Astros in the National League (NL), and became the first player in major league history to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases after changing leagues midseason.
Famous Birthdays on April 24
1977 — Carlos Beltrán
Puerto Rican-American baseball player
April 24 has 205 recorded notable births across history, from 1086 to 1999. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on April 24
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- 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". Source
- 1704 The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published. Source
- 1918 World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs. Source
- 1970 The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President. Source
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Dr. Rajkumar's 39 movies have been remade 63 times in 9 languages by 34 actors making him the first actor whose movies were remade more than fifty times and the first actor whose movies were remade in nine languages.
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Lee Westwood has won the 2000 European Tour Order of Merit, and the renamed 2009 and 2020 Race to Dubai.
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In his second full NHL season, Letang won the 2009 Stanley Cup with Pittsburgh.
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David Blackwell wrote one of the first Bayesian statistics textbooks, his 1969 Basic Statistics.
More major people born on April 24
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1929
Dr. Rajkumar
Indian actor and singer (died 2006)
Singanalluru Puttaswamaiah Muthuraj, better known by his stage name Dr. Rajkumar, was an Indian actor and singer who worked in Kannada cinema.
1973
Lee Westwood
English golfer
Lee John Westwood is an English professional golfer. He is one of the few golfers who has won tournaments on five continents – Europe, North America, Asia, Africa and Oceania – including victories on the European Tour…
1987
Kris Letang
Canadian ice hockey player
Kristopher Joseph Pierre Irwin Letang is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman and alternate captain for the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League (NHL).
1919
David Blackwell
American mathematician and academic (died 2010)
David Harold Blackwell was an American statistician and mathematician who made significant contributions to game theory, probability theory, information theory, and statistics.
1967
Dino Rađa
Croatian basketball player
Dino Rađa is a Croatian former professional basketball player. He was a member of the Jugoplastika team of the late 1980s and early 1990s, which he helped to win two FIBA European Champions Cup championships.
1897
Manuel Ávila Camacho
Mexican colonel and politician, 45th President of Mexico (died 1955)
Manuel Ávila Camacho was a Mexican politician and military leader who served as the president of Mexico from 1940 to 1946.
1900
Elizabeth Goudge
English author and educator (died 1984)
Elizabeth de Beauchamp Goudge FRSL was an English writer of fiction and children's books. She won the Carnegie Medal for British children's books in 1946 for The Little White Horse.
1928
Johnny Griffin
American saxophonist (died 2008)
John Arnold Griffin III was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.
1829
Luisa Cappiani
Austrian soprano, educator and essayist (died 1919)
Luisa Kapp-Young, was an Austrian dramatic operatic soprano, musical educator, and essayist who used the principle of the Aeolian harp emission of tone, which excluded all effort in the throat, and preserved the voice.
1913
Dieter Grau
German-American scientist and engineer (died 2014)
Dieter Grau was a German-born American aerospace engineer and member of the "von Braun rocket group", at Peenemünde (1939–1945) working on the V-2 rockets in World War II.
1955
Eamon Gilmore
Irish trade union leader and politician, 25th Tánaiste of Ireland
Eamon Gilmore is an Irish diplomat and former Labour Party politician. He has served as European Union Special Representative for Human Rights since February 2019.
1562
Xu Guangqi
Ming Dynasty Chinese politician, scholar and lay Catholic leader (died 1633)
Xu Guangqi or Hsü Kuang-ch'i, also known by his baptismal name Paul or Paul Siu, was a Chinese agronomist, astronomer, mathematician, politician, and writer during the late Ming dynasty.
1997
Veronika Kudermetova
Russian tennis player
Veronika Eduardovna Kudermetova is a Russian professional tennis player. She has a career-high singles ranking of world No. 9, achieved on 24 October 2022, and a career-high WTA doubles ranking of No.
1905
Robert Penn Warren
American novelist, poet, and literary critic (died 1989)
Robert Penn Warren was an American poet, novelist, literary critic and professor at Yale University. He was one of the founders of New Criticism. He was also a charter member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
1951
Enda Kenny
Irish educator and politician, 13th Taoiseach of Ireland
Enda Kenny is an Irish former Fine Gael politician who served as Taoiseach from 2011 to 2017, Leader of Fine Gael from 2002 to 2017, Minister for Defence from May to July 2014 and 2016 to 2017, Leader of the Opposition…
1972
Chipper Jones
American baseball player
Larry Wayne "Chipper" Jones Jr. is an American former professional baseball third baseman who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Atlanta Braves from 1993 to 2012.
1976
Hedda Berntsen
Norwegian skier
Hedda Berntsen is a Norwegian sportsperson who has competed internationally in telemark skiing, alpine skiing, freestyle skiing and skicross. She is the world champion in Telemark classic from 1997.
1995
Kehlani
American singer-songwriter
Kehlani Ashley Parrish is an American singer, songwriter and dancer. They initially started as a member of the teen pop group PopLyfe in 2011 as a contestant on America's Got Talent.
1934
Shirley MacLaine
American actress, singer, and dancer
Shirley MacLaine is an American actress and author. With a career spanning over 70 years, she has received numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, two BAFTA Awards, six Golden Globe Awards, two…