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April 24 is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 251 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 1479 BCThutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
  • 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 Erastothenes, among others.[1]
  • 1547Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
  • 1558Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
  • 1704 – The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
  • 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".
  • 1877Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
  • 1885 – American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West.
  • 1895Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop "Spray".
  • 1913 – The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
  • 1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
  • 1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
  • 1916Easter 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.
  • 1918World War I: First tank-to-tank combat, during the second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux. Three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
  • 1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
  • 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.
  • 1932Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
  • 1933Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
  • 1944World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
  • 1953Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
  • 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.
  • 1957Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
  • 1963 – Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
  • 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.
  • 1967Cosmonaut 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".
  • 1970 – China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.[2]
  • 1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
  • 1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
  • 1990STS-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.
  • 1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
  • 1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
  • 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.
  • 2005Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
  • 2011WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
  • 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.

Births[]

  • 1086Ramiro II of Aragon (d. 1157)
  • 1492Sabina of Bavaria, Bavarian duchess and noblewoman (d. 1564)
  • 1532Thomas Lucy, English politician (d. 1600)
  • 1533William I of Orange, founding father of the Netherlands (d. 1584)
  • 1538Guglielmo Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua (d. 1587)
  • 1545Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampton, English Earl (d. 1581)
  • 1562Xu Guangqi, Ming Dynasty Chinese politician, scholar and lay Catholic leader (d. 1633)
  • 1581Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (d. 1660)
  • 1608Gaston, Duke of Orléans, third son of King Henry IV of France (d. 1660)
  • 1620John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (d. 1674)
  • 1706Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1780)
  • 1718Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-English painter and educator (d. 1784)
  • 1743Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and engineer, invented the power loom (d. 1823)
  • 1784Peter Vivian Daniel, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1860)
  • 1815Anthony Trollope, English novelist, essayist, and short story writer (d. 1882)
  • 1823Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, Mexican politician, President of Mexico (d. 1889)
  • 1845Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
  • 1856Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (d. 1951)
  • 1860Queen Marau, last Queen of Tahiti (d.1935)
  • 1862Tomitaro Makino, Japanese botanist (d. 1957)
  • 1868Sandy Herd, Scottish golfer (d. 1944)
  • 1876Erich Raeder, German admiral (d. 1960)
  • 1878Jean Crotti, Swiss-French painter (d. 1958)
  • 1879Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American circus performer (d. 1984)
  • 1880Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper (d. 1954)
  • 1880 – Josef Müller, Croatian entomologist (d. 1964)
  • 1882Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish-English air marshal (d. 1970)
  • 1885Thomas Cronan, American triple jumper (d. 1962)
  • 1885 – Con Walsh, Irish-Canadian hammer thrower and footballer (d. 1961)
  • 1887Denys Finch Hatton, English hunter (d. 1931)
  • 1888Pe Maung Tin, Burma-based scholar and educator (d. 1973)
  • 1889Stafford Cripps, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1952)
  • 1889 – Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and academic (d. 1924)
  • 1897Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican colonel and politician, 45th President of Mexico (d. 1955)
  • 1897 – Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist, anthropologist, and engineer (d. 1941)
  • 1899Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986)
  • 1900Elizabeth Goudge, English author and educator (d. 1984) [3][4]
  • 1903José Antonio Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician, founded the Falange (d. 1936)
  • 1904Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator (d. 1997)
  • 1905Al Bates, American long jumper (d. 1999)
  • 1905 – Robert Penn Warren, American novelist, poet, and literary critic (d. 1989)
  • 1906William Joyce, American-born Irish-British Nazi propaganda broadcaster (d. 1946)
  • 1906 – Mimi Smith, English nurse (d. 1991)
  • 1907Gabriel Figueroa, Mexican cinematographer (d. 1997)
  • 1908Marceline Day, American actress (d. 2000)
  • 1908 – Inga Gentzel, Swedish runner (d. 1991)
  • 1908 – Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor (d. 1963)
  • 1912Ruth Osburn, American discus thrower (d. 1994)
  • 1913Dieter Grau, German-American scientist and engineer (d. 2014)
  • 1914William Castle, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1977)
  • 1914 – Phil Watson, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 1991)
  • 1914 – Justin Wilson, American chef and author (d. 2001)
  • 1916Lou Thesz, American wrestler and trainer (d. 2002)
  • 1919David Blackwell, American mathematician and academic (d. 2010)
  • 1919 – Glafcos Clerides, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 4th President of Cyprus (d. 2013)
  • 1920Gino Valenzano, Italian race car driver (d. 2011)
  • 1922Marc-Adélard Tremblay, Canadian anthropologist and academic (d. 2014)
  • 1923Gus Bodnar, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2005)
  • 1923 – Doris Burn, American author and illustrator (d. 2011)
  • 1924Clement Freud, German-English radio host, academic, and politician (d. 2009)
  • 1924 – Ruth Kobart, American actress and singer (d. 2002)
  • 1925Franco Leccese, Italian sprinter (d. 1992)
  • 1926Marilyn Erskine, American actress
  • 1926 – Thorbjörn Fälldin, Swedish farmer and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Sweden (d. 2016)
  • 1927Josy Barthel, Luxembourgian runner and politician, Luxembourgian Minister for Energy (d. 1992)
  • 1928Tommy Docherty, Scottish footballer and manager
  • 1928 – Johnny Griffin, American saxophonist (d. 2008)
  • 1928 – Anahit Perikhanian, Russian-born Armenian Iranologist (d. 2012)[5]
  • 1929Dr. Rajkumar, Indian actor and singer (d. 2006)
  • 1930Jerome Callet, American instrument designer, educator, and author (d. 2019)
  • 1930 – Richard Donner, American actor, director, and producer
  • 1930 – José Sarney, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 31st President of Brazil
  • 1931Abdelhamid Kermali, Algerian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
  • 1931 – Bridget Riley, English painter and illustrator
  • 1934Jayakanthan, Indian journalist and author (d. 2015)
  • 1934 – Shirley MacLaine, American actress, singer, and dancer
  • 1936David Crombie, Canadian educator and politician, 56th Mayor of Toronto
  • 1936 – Jill Ireland, English actress (d. 1990)
  • 1937Joe Henderson, American saxophonist and composer (d. 2001)
  • 1940Sue Grafton, American author (d. 2017)
  • 1941Richard Holbrooke, American journalist, banker, and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2010)
  • 1941 – John Williams, Australian-English guitarist and composer
  • 1942Richard M. Daley, American lawyer and politician, 54th Mayor of Chicago
  • 1942 – Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress, activist, and producer
  • 1943Richard Sterban, American country & gospel bass singer
  • 1943 – Gordon West, English footballer (d. 2012)
  • 1944Peter Cresswell, English judge
  • 1944 – Maarja Nummert, Estonian architect
  • 1944 – Tony Visconti, American record producer, musician and singer
  • 1945Doug Clifford, American drummer and songwriter
  • 1946Doug Christie, Canadian lawyer and activist (d. 2013)
  • 1947Josep Borrell, Spanish engineer and politician, 22nd President of the European Parliament
  • 1947 – João Braz de Aviz, Brazilian cardinal
  • 1947 – Claude Dubois, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1947 – Denise Kingsmill, Baroness Kingsmill, New Zealand-English lawyer and politician
  • 1947 – Roger D. Kornberg, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1948Paul Cellucci, American soldier and politician, 69th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 2013)
  • 1948 – Eliana Gil, Ecuadorian-American psychiatrist, therapist, and author
  • 1949Eddie Hart, American sprinter
  • 1949 – Véronique Sanson, French singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1950Rob Hyman, American singer-songwriter and musician
  • 1951Ron Arad, Israeli architect and academic
  • 1951 – Christian Bobin, French author and poet
  • 1951 – Nigel Harrison, English bass player and songwriter
  • 1951 – Enda Kenny, Irish educator and politician, 13th Taoiseach of Ireland
  • 1952Jean Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
  • 1952 – Ralph Winter, American film producer
  • 1953Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer
  • 1954Mumia Abu-Jamal, American journalist, activist, and convicted murderer
  • 1954 – Jack Blades, American singer-songwriter and bass player
  • 1955Marion Caspers-Merk, German politician
  • 1955 – John de Mol Jr., Dutch businessman, co-founded Endemol
  • 1955 – Eamon Gilmore, Irish trade union leader and politician, 25th Tánaiste of Ireland
  • 1955 – Margaret Moran, British politician and criminal
  • 1955 – Guy Nève, Belgian race car driver (d. 1992)
  • 1955 – Michael O'Keefe, American actor
  • 1955 – Bill Osborne, New Zealand rugby player
  • 1956James A. Winnefeld, Jr., American admiral
  • 1957Nazir Ahmed, Baron Ahmed, Pakistani-English businessman and politician
  • 1958Brian Paddick, English police officer and politician
  • 1959Paula Yates, British-Australian television host and author (d. 2000)
  • 1961Andrew Murrison, English physician and politician, Minister for International Security Strategy
  • 1962Clemens Binninger, German politician
  • 1962 – Stuart Pearce, English footballer, coach, and manager
  • 1962 – Steve Roach, Australian rugby league player, coach, and sportscaster
  • 1963Paula Frazer, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1963 – Billy Gould, American bass player, songwriter, and producer
  • 1963 – Mano Solo, French singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2010)
  • 1964Helga Arendt, German sprinter (d. 2013)
  • 1964 – Cedric the Entertainer, American comedian, actor, and producer
  • 1964 – Djimon Hounsou, Beninese-American actor and producer
  • 1964 – Witold Smorawiński, Polish guitarist, composer, and educator
  • 1965Jeff Jackson, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
  • 1966Pierre Brassard, Canadian comedian and actor
  • 1966 – Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer, coach, and manager
  • 1966 – David Usher, English-Canadian singer-songwriter
  • 1967Dino Rađa, Croatian basketball player[6]
  • 1967 – Omar Vizquel, Venezuelan-American baseball player and coach
  • 1968Aidan Gillen, Irish actor
  • 1968 – Todd Jones, American baseball player
  • 1968 – Roxanna Panufnik, English composer
  • 1968 – Hashim Thaçi, Kosovan soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Kosovo
  • 1969Elias Atmatsidis, Greek footballer
  • 1969 – Rory McCann, Scottish actor
  • 1969 – Eilidh Whiteford, Scottish academic and politician
  • 1970Damien Fleming, Australian cricketer, coach, and sportscaster
  • 1971Kumar Dharmasena, Sri Lankan cricketer and umpire
  • 1971 – Mauro Pawlowski, Belgian singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1972Rab Douglas, Scottish footballer
  • 1972 – Chipper Jones, American baseball player
  • 1972 – Jure Košir, Slovenian skier and singer
  • 1973Gabby Logan, English gymnast, television and radio host
  • 1973 – Damon Lindelof, American screenwriter and producer
  • 1973 – Brian Marshall, American bass player and songwriter
  • 1973 – Eric Snow, American basketball player and coach
  • 1973 – Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
  • 1973 – Toomas Tohver, Estonian footballer
  • 1973 – Lee Westwood, English golfer
  • 1974Eric Kripke, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1974 – Stephen Wiltshire, English illustrator
  • 1975Dejan Savić, Yugoslavian and Serbian water polo player
  • 1976Steve Finnan, Irish international footballer[7]
  • 1976 – Frédéric Niemeyer, Canadian tennis player and coach
  • 1977Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican-American baseball player
  • 1977 – Diego Placente, Argentine footballer
  • 1978Diego Quintana, Argentine footballer
  • 1980Fernando Arce, Mexican footballer
  • 1980 – Karen Asrian, Armenian chess player (d. 2008)
  • 1981Taylor Dent, American tennis player
  • 1981 – Yuko Nakanishi, Japanese swimmer
  • 1982Kelly Clarkson, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
  • 1982 – David Oliver, American hurdler
  • 1982 – Simon Tischer, German volleyball player
  • 1983Hanna Melnychenko, Ukrainian heptathlete
  • 1985Mike Rodgers, American sprinter
  • 1986Aaron Cunningham, American baseball player
  • 1987Ben Howard, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1987 – Kris Letang, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1987 – Rein Taaramäe, Estonian cyclist
  • 1987 – Jan Vertonghen, Belgian international footballer[8]
  • 1987 – Varun Dhawan, Indian actor
  • 1989Elīna Babkina, Latvian basketball player
  • 1989 – David Boudia, American diver
  • 1989 – Taja Mohorčič, Slovenian tennis player
  • 1990Kim Tae-ri, South Korean actress
  • 1990 – Jan Veselý, Czech basketball player
  • 1991Sigrid Agren, French-Swedish model
  • 1991 – Morgan Ciprès, French figure skater
  • 1991 – Batuhan Karadeniz, Turkish footballer
  • 1992Joe Keery, American actor
  • 1992 – Laura Kenny, English cyclist
  • 1993Ben Davies, Welsh international footballer[9]
  • 1994Jordan Fisher, American singer, dancer, and actor[10]
  • 1994 – Caspar Lee, British-South African Youtuber
  • 1996Ashleigh Barty, Australian tennis player
  • 1997Lydia Ko, New Zealand golfer
  • 1997 – Veronika Kudermetova, Russian tennis player
  • 1998Ryan Newman, American actress
  • 1999Jerry Jeudy, American football player[11]

Deaths[]

  • 624Mellitus, saint and archbishop of Canterbury
  • 1149Petronille de Chemillé, abbess of Fontevrault
  • 1288Gertrude of Austria (b. 1226)
  • 1338Theodore I, Marquess of Montferrat (b. 1291)
  • 1479Jorge Manrique, Spanish poet (b. 1440)
  • 1513Şehzade Ahmet, Ottoman prince (b. 1465)
  • 1617Concino Concini, Italian-French politician, Prime Minister of France (b. 1575)
  • 1622Fidelis of Sigmaringen, German friar and saint (b. 1577)
  • 1656Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
  • 1731Daniel Defoe, English journalist, novelist, and spy (b. 1660)
  • 1748Anton thor Helle, German-Estonian clergyman and translator (b. 1683)
  • 1779Eleazar Wheelock, American minister and academic, founded Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
  • 1794Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish field marshal and politician (b. 1719)
  • 1852Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet and translator (b. 1783)
  • 1889Zulma Carraud, French author (b. 1796)[12]
  • 1891Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German field marshal (b. 1800)
  • 1924G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist and academic (b. 1844)
  • 1931David Kldiashvili, Georgian author and playwright (b. 1862)
  • 1935Anastasios Papoulas, Greek general (b. 1857)
  • 1938George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
  • 1939Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
  • 1941Karin Boye, Swedish author and poet (b. 1900)
  • 1942Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
  • 1944Charles Jordan, American magician (b. 1888)
  • 1945Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)
  • 1947Hans Biebow, German SS officer (b. 1902)
  • 1947 – Willa Cather, American novelist, short story writer, and poet (b. 1873)
  • 1948Jāzeps Vītols, Latvian composer (b. 1863)
  • 1954Guy Mairesse, French race car driver (b. 1910)
  • 1960Max von Laue, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
  • 1961Lee Moran, American actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1888)
  • 1962Milt Franklyn, American composer (b. 1897)
  • 1964Gerhard Domagk, German pathologist and bacteriologist (b. 1895)
  • 1965Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
  • 1966Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet and author (b. 1902)
  • 1967Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
  • 1967 – Robert Richards, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia (b. 1885)
  • 1968Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)[13]
  • 1970Otis Spann, American singer and pianist (b. 1930)
  • 1972Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
  • 1974Bud Abbott, American comedian and producer (b. 1897)
  • 1975Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
  • 1976Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890)
  • 1980Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (b. 1904)
  • 1982Ville Ritola, Finnish runner (b. 1896)
  • 1983Erol Güngör, Turkish sociologist, psychologist, and academic (b. 1938)
  • 1983 – Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
  • 1984Rafael Pérez y Pérez, Spanish author (b. 1891)
  • 1993Oliver Tambo, South African lawyer and activist (b. 1917)
  • 1993 – Tran Duc Thao, Vietnamese philosopher and theorist (b. 1917)
  • 1995Lodewijk Bruckman, Dutch painter (b. 1903)
  • 1997Allan Francovich, American director and producer (b. 1941)
  • 1997 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and activist (b. 1927)
  • 1997 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer, designed the AR-15 rifle (b. 1922)
  • 2001Josef Peters, German race car driver (b. 1914)
  • 2001 – Johnny Valentine, American wrestler (b. 1928)
  • 2002Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourgian sculptor (b. 1908)
  • 2004José Giovanni, French-Swiss director and producer (b. 1923)
  • 2004 – Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded Estée Lauder Companies (b. 1908)
  • 2005Ezer Weizman, Israeli general and politician, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924)
  • 2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist and academic (b. 1910)
  • 2006Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
  • 2006 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Romanian-American rabbi and author (b. 1914)
  • 2008Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, and saxophonist, and composer (b. 1921)
  • 2011Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philanthropist (b. 1926)
  • 2014Hans Hollein, Austrian architect, designed Haas House (b. 1934)
  • 2014 – Sandy Jardine, Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1948)
  • 2014 – Shobha Nagi Reddy, Indian politician (b. 1968)
  • 2014 – Tadeusz Różewicz, Polish poet and playwright (b. 1921)
  • 2015Władysław Bartoszewski, Polish journalist and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1922)
  • 2016Tommy Kono, American weightlifter and coach (b. 1930)
  • 2017Robert Pirsig, American author and philosopher (b. 1928)

Holidays and observances[]

  • Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia, France)[14]
  • Christian feast day:
    • Benedict Menni
    • Dermot of Armagh
    • Dyfnan of Anglesey
    • Ecgberht of Ripon
    • Fidelis of Sigmaringen
    • Gregory of Elvira
    • Ivo of Ramsey
    • Johann Walter (Lutheran)
    • Mary of Clopas
    • Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
    • Mellitus
    • Peter of Saint Joseph de Betancur
    • Salome (disciple)
    • Wilfrid (Church of England)
    • William Firmatus
    • April 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Concord Day (Niger)
  • Democracy Day (Nepal)
  • Earliest day on which Arbor Day can fall, while April 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Friday in April. (United States)
  • Earliest day on which Turkmen Racing Horse Festival can fall, while April 30 is the latest; celebrated on the last Sunday in April. (Turkmenistan)
  • Fashion Revolution Day, and its related observances:
    • Labour Safety Day (Bangladesh, proposed)
  • Kapyong Day (Australia, Canada)
  • National Panchayati Raj Day (India)
  • St Mark's Eve
  • Republic Day (The Gambia)
  • World Day for Laboratory Animals

References[]

  1. Kokkinos, Nikos (31 December 2009). "Ancient Chronology, Eratosthenes and the Dating of the Fall of Troy". Ancient West & East. 8 (0): 37–56. doi:10.2143/AWE.8.0.2045837. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
  2. "PRC 1". National Space Science Data Center. Retrieved 5 April 2020.
  3. "Biography of Elizabeth Goudge". www.msmc.edu. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  4. "ELIZABETH GOUDGE". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. 27 April 1984. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  5. Ambartsumian, Arthur (2014). "PERIKHANIAN, ANAHIT". Encyclopaedia Iranica.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
  6. "Dino Radja". The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
  7. "Steve Finnan". soccerbase.com. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  8. "Jan Vertonghen". soccerbase.com. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  9. "Ben Davies". soccerbase.com. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  10. https://www.popbuzz.com/tv-film/features/jordan-fisher/
  11. "Jerry Jeudy". ESPN.com. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  12. "Zulma Carraud". Les Bibliothèques de Châteauroux. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
  13. "Walter Tewksbury". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  14. https://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/eli/decret/2019/4/10/PRMX1820266D/jo/texte legifrance.gouv.fr

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