About April 24
April 24, 2024 is the 115th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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Taurus is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 280 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 24
- 1558 –Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
- 1704 –The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
- 1800 –The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”.
- 1904 –The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
- 1907 –Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
- 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 ice-trapped ship ship .
- 1918 –First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met 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.
- 1932 –Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
- 1955 –The Bandung Conference ends: 29 non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
- 1957 –Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
- 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 –Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
- 1980 –Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
- 1990 –Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
- 1990 –STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 1993 –An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
- 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.
- 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.
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