About April 24
April 24, 2025 is the 114th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 299 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On April 24
- 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).
- 1862 –American Civil War: A flotilla commanded by Union Admiral David Farragut passes two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River on its way to capture New Orleans, Louisiana.
- 1898 –The Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
- 1904 –The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
- 1907 –Al Ahly was founded.
- 1913 –The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
- 1916 –Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.
- 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.
- 1932 –Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
- 1953 –Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
- 1955 –The Bandung Conference ends: 29 non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
- 1963 –Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
- 1971 –Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
- 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.
- 2005 –Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
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