This Day in History for 24th April

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 176

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 - The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date).
858 - Nicolaas I succeeds Benedict III as pope
1066 - Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed
1185 - Battle at Danoura: Yoshitsune Minamoto's fleet beats imperial fleet
1288 - Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder
1311 - Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
1364 - Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht
1524 - Duke of Bourbon drives admiral Bonnivet out of Milan
1547 - Battle of Muhlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave
1570 - Battles between Spanish troops & followers of sultan Suleiman
1596 - Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
1704 - "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in US, forms
1792 - "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
1800 - Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1801 - 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"
1823 - Eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique," premieres in Paris
1833 - Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent 1st soda fountain
1863 - Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid)
1865 - Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)
1867 - Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars
1872 - Volcano Vesuvius erupts
1877 - Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
1877 - Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire.
1880 - Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1883 - 28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam World's Fair
1884 - National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
1888 - Eastman Kodak forms
1891 - Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Final Problem"
1894 - French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18
1894 - Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers
1895 - Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
1897 - 1st reporter, William Price (Wash Star), assigned to White House
1898 - US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines
1898 - Spanish-American War: Spain delares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
1899 - Transvaal British Uitlanders ask Queen Victoria for aid
1900 - Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
1901 - 1st AL game, Chic beats Cleve Blues 8-2, 3 other games rained out
1905 - 1st-class Cricket debut of Jack Hobbs, Surrey v Gentlemen (18 & 28)
1905 - Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3
Chocolate Tycoon Milton S. Hershey 1907 - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
1908 - Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car, they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
1909 - Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds
1910 - German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
1913 - The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City is opened.
1915 - German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
1915 - Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day)
1915 - Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0
1916 - Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
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 ice-trapped ship Endurance.
1917 - Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway
1920 - British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
1920 - Polish troops attack Ukraine
1921 - 1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium
1923 - General harbor strike begins in NYC
1925 - 88°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
1928 - Fathometer, which measures underwater depth, patented
1929 - 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1929 - Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark
1932 - German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
1933 - 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell)
1938 - Lindenheuvel soccer team forms
1941 - British army begins evacuation of Greece
1941 - Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot
1942 - Luftwaffe bombs Exeter
1944 - 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China "over the Hump"
1944 - RAF bombs Munich
1944 - United Negro College Fund incorporates
1945 - Albert B "Happy" Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner
1945 - Delegates of 46 countries gather in SF (to discuss UN)
1946 - 11 players Tinker, Evers, Chance, Burkett, McCarthy, Waddell, Plank, Walsh, Chesbro, Griffith, & McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame
1949 - 3rd Tony Awards: Death of a Salesman & Kiss Me Kate win
1950 - "Peter Pan" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances
1950 - Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
1950 - Pres Harry Truman denies there are communists in US government
1951 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sacramento Women's Golf Invitational Open
British war time Prime Minister Winston Churchill 1953 - Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1954 - 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1954 - Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations
1954 - WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - Conference of Bandung against colonialism/for self determination, ends
1955 - Gaullists lose elections in France
1955 - KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1955 - KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1956 - AL ump Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game
1957 - Chic Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning
1958 - Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
1959 - Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
1959 - WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1960 - 14th Tony Awards: Miracle Worker & Fiorello! win
1960 - Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed
1960 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Civitan Golf Open
1960 - Record 4 grand slams hit today
US President John F. Kennedy 1961 - JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1961 - Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised
1961 - The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged.
1962 - 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested
1962 - MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA
1962 - Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game
1963 - 17th NBA Championship: Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 2

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 222

1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584)
1538 - Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer
1581 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)
1594 - Benedikt Lechler, composer
1620 - John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography
1660 - Cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver
1670 - Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer
1706 - Giovanni Battista Martini, composer
1718 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
1721 - Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer, baptised
1742 - Roman Hoffstetter, composer
1743 - Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom)
1750 - Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician
1766 - Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac)
1773 - Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director
1784 - Peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860)
1791 - Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)
1796 - K L Immermann, writer
1804 - Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)
1807 - Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1814 - Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire
1814 - Vincente F Lopez, Argentina historian (La Novia del Hereje)
1815 - Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers)
1815 - James Edward Harrison, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1875
1822 - Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1824 - Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger
1828 - Robert Brank Vance, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1829 - George Peabody Estey, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1836 - Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist
1837 - Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)
1845 - Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919)
1849 - Joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)
1851 - Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria)
1856 - Henri POBJ Pétain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime)
1864 - George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen (PTT)/Dutch Min of War (1918-20)
1867 - Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American (113 y 273 d at death)
1873 - Theodor Korner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president
1874 - John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial)
1874 - Willem E Roelofs, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1875 - Jeno Huszka, composer
1876 - Ioannis Georgiadis, Greek fencer (d. 1960)
1876 - Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960)
1877 - Charles Cuvillier, composer
1878 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)
1882 - Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (d. 1970)
1883 - Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik) [or April 30]
1886 - Kurt Pinthus, writer
1886 - R Pelgrom, oldest Dutch man (died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108)
1887 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931)
1889 - [Richard] Stafford Cripps, Engl min of Plane-manufacturing (1942-45)
1889 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (d. 1924)
1892 - Jack Hulbert, Ely England, actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack)
1893 - Robert Harron, NYC, actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance)
1895 - S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner
1897 - Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist (or 1797)
1897 - Gyorgy Kosa, composer
1897 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
1899 - Oscar Zariski, Russian-born mathematician (d. 1986)
1903 - Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, founder (Spanish Falange)
1903 - Mike Michalske, NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers)
1903 - Siegfried F Nadel, Austrian/British anthropologist (Black Byzantium)
1904 - Willem De Kooning, Rotterdam Netherland, artist (North Atlantic Light)
1905 - Robert Penn Warren, 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men)
1906 - William Joyce, Irish fascist (d. 1946)
1907 - Vaclav Trojan, composer
1908 - Heddy Bouber, [Hermanus G Blom], actor (Bluejackets)
1908 - Marceline Day, American actor (d. 2000)
1909 - Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany)
1909 - Irven Spence, animator
1911 - Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian (Disorderly Orderly)
1911 - Karl O Schiller, German economist (Minister of Economics)
1911 - Robert Joseph Kane, Ithaca NY, Pres of US Olympic Comm (1976)
1911 - Sigursveinn David Kristinsson, composer
1914 - Bernard Caulfield, judge
1914 - Justin Wilson, cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips)
1914 - Ruth White, Perth Amboy NJ, actress (Up the Down Staircase)
1916 - Stanley Kauffmann, NYC, playwright (Red Handkerchief Man)
1916 - Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
1917 - Len Creed, bookmaker
1921 - Laci Boldemann, composer
1922 - J D Cannon, Salmon Idaho, actor (McCloud, Ike, Call to Glory)
1924 - Marilyn Erskine, Rochester NY, actor (Fran-Tom Ewell Show)
1924 - Yehoshua Lakner, composer
1924 - Sir Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician
1924 - Ruth Kobart, American actor and singer (d. 2002)
1927 - Josy Barthel, Luxembourg, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1952)
1927 - Pasqualino de Santis, cinematographer
1927 - Patrick Bowles, writer/translator
1928 - Gustav Krivinka, composer
1929 - Ferit Tuzun, composer
1929 - Dr.Rajkumar, Kannada actor
1930 - Conn Findlay, Stockton California, coxswain (Oly-2 gold/bronze-56, 64, 76)
1930 - Jerome Callet, American musician
1931 - Bridget Riley, British painter (op-art)
1932 - Coen[rad] Flink, Dutch actor (Pastorale 1943, Havinck, Honneponnetje)
1932 - Vladimir Yengibaryan, Yerevan, Armenia, welterweight boxer (Olympic gold, 1956), (d. 2013)
1933 - Freddie Scott, US songwriter/singer (Cry to Me)
1933 - Patricia Bosworth, American actor, journalist, writer and biographer
1933 - Claire Davenport, British actress (d. 2002)
1933 - Alan Eagleson, Canadian ice hockey agent and promoter

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 9 of 9

1558 - Queen Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince Francois
1575 - William (the Silent) of Orange marries 3rd wife Charlotte de Bourbon and former French nun
1854 - Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"
1963 - English princess Alexandra marries Sir Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey
1992 - Rock star David Bowie (45) weds supermodel Iman (37) in Switzerland
1993 - ABC news analyst Jeff Greenfield weds Karen Gannett
1994 - Actress Kelly Preston (26) weds actor Lou Diamond Phillips (32)
2004 - Prince Friso of Orange (35), 2nd son of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands marries Mabel Wisse Smit (35) without formal permission of parliament.
2004 - Model-actress Ali Landry (30) weds TV personality Mario Lopez (30) at the exclusive Las Alamandas resort outside Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 1 of 1

2007 - Recording artist and the most-awarded female act of all-time Whitney Houston (43) divorces R&B singer-songwriter Bobby Brown (38) due to irreconcilable differences after 14 years of marriage

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 92 of 92

624 - Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury
709 - Wilfrid, English bishop and saint, dies at about 76
729 - Egbert[us], English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89
1077 - Geza I, King of Hungary (1074-7), dies
1185 - Antoku Taira, emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns
1338 - Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291)
1530 - Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies
1617 - Carlo Concino, French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered
1622 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (b. 1577)
1656 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
1731 - Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies
1736 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663)
1758 - Florian Wrastill, composer, dies at 41
1776 - Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84
1776 - Giuseppi Paolucci, composer, dies at 49
1779 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
1824 - Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71
1827 - Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82
1848 - Francois van Campenhout, Belgian composer (Brabanconne), dies at 69
1850 - Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70
1852 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
1855 - Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer, dies at 75
1875 - Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer, dies at 58
1891 - Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/fieldmarshal, dies
1900 - George J D Campbell, Brit min of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76
1904 - Friedrich Siemens, German industrial, dies at 77
1912 - Justin M'Carthy, politician/novelist (Miss Misanthrope), dies at 81
1917 - Oskar Blumenthal, writer, dies
1922 - Richard Batka, composer, dies at 53
1924 - George Street, English cricket wicket keeper (1 Test 1923), dies
1924 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
1928 - Ferdinand B Hummel, composer, dies at 72
1935 - Paul Klengel, composer, dies at 80
1936 - Alphons Diepenbrock, composer, dies at 73
1936 - Bernard van Dieren, composer, dies at 51
1938 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
1939 - John Foulds, composer, dies at 58
1942 - Karin Boye, Swedish author (b. 1900)
1942 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
1943 - Gerardus H de Hare, socialist vicar, dies at 63
1944 - William Stephens, U.S. political figure (b. 1859)
1945 - Anton de Kom, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47
1945 - Hubert Bath, composer, dies at 61
1947 - Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
1948 - Joseph Wihtol, composer, dies at 84
1948 - Manuel Marua Ponce, Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65
1948 - Rosita Marstini, actress (I Cover Waterfront, Big Parade), dies at 54
1952 - Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57
1952 - Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State, dies at 82
1955 - Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer/theater critic, dies at 79
1956 - Albrecht G Alt, German theologist (Small Schriften), dies at 72
1956 - Henry Stephenson, actor (Conquest, Mr Lucky), dies at 85
1957 - Andries CD de Graeff, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1926-31), dies at 84
1959 - Jef van Hoof, composer, dies at 72
1960 - John P "John" Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at 84
1961 - Lee Moran, actor (Circus Clown), dies of heart ailment at 72
1964 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895)
1965 - Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 86
1967 - Frank Overton, actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48
1967 - Vladimir M Komarov, cosmonaut (Voshkod I), dies in Soyuz 1 at 40
1968 - Norman McKaye, actor (Untamed Fury, Frogman), dies at 62
1968 - Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), dies at 45
1974 - Bud Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 78
1975 - William Hartnell, actor (Jackpot, This Sporting Life), dies at 67
1976 - Mark Tobey, US abstract painter, (Broadway Norm), dies at 85
1979 - John Carroll, actor (Hired Wife, Fiesta, Geraldine), dies at 72
1980 - Alentejo Carpentier, Cuban/Fren writer (Guerra del Tiempo), dies at 75
1983 - Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
1985 - Sergei Yutkevich, Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80
1986 - Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, (Edward abdicated for her), dies at 89
1986 - Bill Edrich, cricketer (39 Tests for England), dies
1988 - E S "Bob" Newson, cricketer (South African fast bowler in 1930's), dies
1990 - Joseph Leberman, entertainer, dies
1990 - Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone, Cliff-Another World), dies
1991 - J de Graaf, ethicus/president church & peace, dies
1993 - Oliver R Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75
1995 - Douglas Gunsekera, banker, dies at 77
1996 - Donald Cammell, film director, dies at 62
1996 - Erma Bombeck, columnist (Septic Tank is Always Greener), dies
1996 - Preston Lockwood, actor (House of Windsor, Black Candle), dies at 83
1997 - Pat Paulsen, comedian (Smothers Brothers Show), dies at 69
2001 - Al Hibbler, American singer (b. 1915)
2001 - Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor (b. 1922)
2004 - Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)
2005 - Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)
2005 - Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
2006 - Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
2006 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
2006 - Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
2009 - John Michell, British writer, (b. 1933)
2011 - Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru, spiritual figure (b. 1926)
2011 - Marie-France Pisier, French actress (b. 1944)