April 24 is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56).
NATIONAL PIGS-IN-A-BLANKET DAY
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).
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).
1184 BC – Traditional date of the fall of Troy in the Trojan War.
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".
1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show.
1895 – Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail solo around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society (James Frank and Gustav Ludvig Hertz). The experimental results proved to be consistent with the Bohr model for atoms that had been proposed the previous year by Niels Henrik David Bohr. Bohr had postulated that electrons can only have specific, discrete energies. The potential difference increased the free electrons' mobility until, at a certain energy level, they jumped to a higher-energy orbit instead.
1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian (Christian) Genocide.
1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organize a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance.
1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
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.
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.
1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. ― From This Day in History
1967 – Soviet 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 C. 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."
1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis under President Jimmy Carter.
1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. Five subsequent Space Shuttle missions repaired, upgraded, and replaced systems on the telescope, including all five of the main instruments. The fifth mission was canceled on safety grounds following the Columbia disaster (2003). However, after spirited public discussion, NASA administrator Mike Griffin approved the fifth servicing mission, completed in 2009. The telescope is operating as of 2018, and could last until 2030–2040. Its scientific successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is scheduled for launch in this year.
1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law under President Bill Clinton. The AEDPA also contained a number of provisions to "deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, provide for an effective death penalty, and for other purposes" in the words of the bill summary.
1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. Five subsequent Space Shuttle missions repaired, upgraded, and replaced systems on the telescope, including all five of the main instruments. The fifth mission was canceled on safety grounds following the Columbia disaster (2003). However, after spirited public discussion, NASA administrator Mike Griffin approved the fifth servicing mission, completed in 2009. The telescope is operating as of 2018, and could last until 2030–2040. Its scientific successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is scheduled for launch in this year.
1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law under President Bill Clinton. The AEDPA also contained a number of provisions to "deter terrorism, provide justice for victims, provide for an effective death penalty, and for other purposes" in the words of the bill summary.
2005 – Bavarian Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
BORN TODAY
1856 – Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (d. 1951)
1887 – Denys Finch Hatton, English hunter, april 24
(d. 1931)
1904 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator (d. 1997)
1905 – Robert Penn Warren, American novelist, poet, and literary critic (d. 1989)
1934 – Shirley MacLaine (Beaty), American actress, singer, and dancer
1947 – Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (method by which genetic information is transferred from DNA to RNA)
1856 – Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (d. 1951)
1887 – Denys Finch Hatton, English hunter, april 24
(d. 1931)
1904 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator (d. 1997)
1905 – Robert Penn Warren, American novelist, poet, and literary critic (d. 1989)
1934 – Shirley MacLaine (Beaty), American actress, singer, and dancer
1947 – Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (method by which genetic information is transferred from DNA to RNA)
From Wikipedia and Google (images), ex as noted.
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