# What happened on April 24 in history?

**Date:** April 24  
**Events recorded:** 47  
**Years spanned:** 1479 BC – 2025  
**Full page:** https://thisday.info/events/april/24/

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## Featured Event

**2013** — A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.

[Read more on Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_Plaza_collapse)

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## Events on this date

- **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). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thutmose_III))
- **1183 BC** — 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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy))
- **858** — Consecration of Pope Nicholas I following the death of Pope Benedict III earlier that month. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_I))
- **934** — Abbasid Caliph Al-Qahir is deposed and blinded. His nephew al-Radi suceeds him as caliph. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Abbasid_caliphs))
- **1547** — Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_M%C3%BChlberg))
- **1558** — Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre-Dame de Paris. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary%2C_Queen_of_Scots))
- **1704** — The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirteen_Colonies))
- **1793** — French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Marat))
- **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". ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress))
- **1837** — The great fire in Surat, India causes more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9,000 houses. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1837_Surat_fire))
- **1877** — Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Turkish_War_(1877%E2%80%931878)))
- **1885** — American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharpshooter))
- **1895** — Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop Spray. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Slocum))
- **1913** — The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woolworth_Building))
- **1914** — The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franck%E2%80%93Hertz_experiment))
- **1915** — The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian genocide. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deportation_of_Armenian_intellectuals_on_24_April_1915))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter_Rising))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Shackleton))
- **1918** — World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I))
- **1922** — The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Wireless_Chain))
- **1924** — Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark (first term). ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorvald_Stauning))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Berlin_(1926)))
- **1932** — Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Rothman))
- **1933** — Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany))
- **1944** — World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II))
- **1953** — Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandung_Conference))
- **1957** — Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suez_Crisis))
- **1963** — Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Alexandra_(born_1936)))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Civil_War))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astronaut))
- **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". ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War))
- **1970** — China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dong_Fang_Hong_1))
- **1970** — The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gambia))
- **1980** — Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Eagle_Claw))
- **1990** — STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-31))
- **1990** — Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gruinard_Island))
- **1993** — An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Provisional_Irish_Republican_Army))
- **1994** — A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_DC-3))
- **1996** — In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiterrorism_and_Effective_Death_Penalty_Act_of_1996))
- **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. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sanctions))
- **2005** — Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_(Catholic_Church)))
- **2006** — Bombings in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab kill 23 people and injure about 80. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Dahab_bombings))
- **2011** — WikiLeaks starts  publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiLeaks))
- **2013** — A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rana_Plaza_collapse))
- **2013** — Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_2013_Bachu_unrest))
- **2025** — A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded. ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Nantes_school_stabbing))

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## Notable births on April 24

- **1999** — **Ziyu He** — Chinese violinist ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ziyu_He))
- **1999** — **Jerry Jeudy** — American football player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Jeudy))
- **1998** — **Ryan Newman** — American actress ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Whitney_(actress)))
- **1997** — **Lydia Ko** — New Zealand golfer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lydia_Ko))
- **1997** — **Veronika Kudermetova** — Russian tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronika_Kudermetova))
- **1996** — **Ashleigh Barty** — Australian tennis player ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashleigh_Barty))
- **1995** — **Kehlani** — American singer-songwriter ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kehlani))
- **1994** — **Jordan Fisher** — American singer, dancer, and actor ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordan_Fisher))
- **1994** — **Caspar Lee** — British-South African YouTuber ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_Lee))
- **1993** — **Ben Davies** — Welsh international footballer ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Davies_(footballer%2C_born_1993)))

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## Notable deaths on April 24

- **2026** — **Dirk Kempthorne** — American businessman and politician, 49th United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1951) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirk_Kempthorne))
- **2025** — **Roy Phillips** — British musician (born 1941) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Phillips))
- **2024** — **Bob Cole** — Canadian sports announcer (born 1933) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Cole_(sportscaster)))
- **2024** — **Terry Hill** — Australian rugby league player (born 1972) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Hill))
- **2024** — **Donald Payne Jr.** — American politician (born 1958) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Payne_Jr.))
- **2024** — **Mike Pinder** — British musician (born 1941) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinder))
- **2023** — **Wang Xiaolong** — Chinese Coast guardsman (born 1995) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Wang_Xiaolong))
- **2022** — **Andrew Woolfolk** — American saxophonist (born 1950) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Woolfolk))
- **2017** — **Robert Pirsig** — American author and philosopher (born 1928) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_M._Pirsig))
- **2016** — **Tommy Kono** — American weightlifter and coach (born 1930) ([Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tommy_Kono))

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