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24 Apr 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)
24 Apr 1184
BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
24 Apr 1066
Halleys Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed
24 Apr 1185
Battle at Danoura Yoshitsune Minamotos fleet beats the Taira during Japans Genpei War
24 Apr 1288
Jews of Troyes France are accused of ritual murder
24 Apr 1311
General Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India
24 Apr 1364
Pope Urban V names John V van Virneburg as Bishop of Utrecht
24 Apr 1524
Duke of Bourbon drives Admiral Bonnivet out of Milan
24 Apr 1570
Battles between Spanish troops & followers of Sultan Suleiman
24 Apr 1704
Boston News-Letter 1st successful newspaper in US forms
24 Apr 1800
US Library of Congress establishes with 5000 allocation
24 Apr 1801
1st performance of Joseph Haydns oratorio Die Jahreszeiten
24 Apr 1823
Eugene Scribes opera Le Menteur Veridique premieres in Paris
24 Apr 1833
Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent 1st soda fountain
24 Apr 1863
Skirmish at Okolona and Birmingham Mississippi (Griersons Raid)
24 Apr 1865
Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco
24 Apr 1867
Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Virginia streetcars
24 Apr 1877
Last federal occupying troops withdraw from the South (New Orleans)
24 Apr 1877
Russo-Turkish War -78 Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
24 Apr 1880
Amateur Athletic Association governing body for mens athletics in England & Wales is founded in Oxford England
24 Apr 1883
28 Surinamers depart to Amsterdam Worlds Fair
24 Apr 1884
National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes in Atlanta
24 Apr 1891
Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure Final Problem
24 Apr 1894
French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 23918
24 Apr 1894
Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers
24 Apr 1895
Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
24 Apr 1897
1st reporter William Price (Washington Star) assigned to White House
24 Apr 1898
Spanish-American War Spain declares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
24 Apr 1901
The Chicago White Stockings win against the Cleveland Blues in the 1st game played in baseballs American League
24 Apr 1901
1st AL game Chicago beats Cleveland Blues 8-2 3 other games rained out
24 Apr 1904
President Loubet of France visits King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and pointedly ignores the Pope exacerbating relations between France and the Roman Catholic Church
24 Apr 1905
First-class cricket debut of Sir Jack Hobbs The Master for Surrey v the Gentlemen of England (18 & 88)
24 Apr 1905
Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3
24 Apr 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
24 Apr 1909
Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 seconds
24 Apr 1910
German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
24 Apr 1913
Skyscraper the Woolworth Building in New York City is opened - worlds tallest building at the time
24 Apr 1914
A shipment of 35000 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition are landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF an Ulster loyalist paramilitary group in Northern Ireland
24 Apr 1915
German army fires chloroform gas in Ypres (Leper)
24 Apr 1915
Massacre of Armenians by Turks starts (Armenian Martyrs Day)
24 Apr 1915
Pitts Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League) 2-0
24 Apr 1917
Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway
24 Apr 1917
US Congress passes the Liberty Loan Act authorizing the Treasury to issue a public subscription for 2 billion in bonds for the war
24 Apr 1920
British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years)
24 Apr 1921
1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium
24 Apr 1921
Under Allies supervision a plebiscite in the Tyrol favors merging with Germany unhappy with the outcome Allies give the area to Italy
24 Apr 1925
88F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in April
24 Apr 1928
Fathometer which measures underwater depth patented
24 Apr 1929
1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
24 Apr 1932
German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia)
24 Apr 1933
1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell)
24 Apr 1944
1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China over the Hump
24 Apr 1945
Albert B Happy Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner
24 Apr 1946
11 players Tinker Evers Chance Burkett McCarthy Waddell Plank Walsh Chesbro Griffith & McGinnity are named to Hall of Fame
24 Apr 1949
3rd Tony Awards Death of a Salesman & Kiss Me Kate win
24 Apr 1950
Peter Pan opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 320 performances
24 Apr 1950
Independent republic of South Molukkas declared
24 Apr 1950
US President Harry Truman denies there are communists in the US government
24 Apr 1954
1st American civilian pilot P.R. Holden wounded in Indochina
24 Apr 1954
WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
24 Apr 1955
Conference of Bandung against colonialism and for self determination ends
24 Apr 1955
KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
24 Apr 1955
KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
24 Apr 1956
AL umpire Frank Umont is 1st to wear glasses in a regular season game
24 Apr 1957
Chicago Cub pitchers walk NL record 9 Reds in 5th inning
24 Apr 1959
Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
24 Apr 1959
WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign IL (NBCABC) begins broadcasting
24 Apr 1960
14th Tony Awards Miracle Worker and Fiorello win
24 Apr 1960
Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia 500 killed
24 Apr 1962
Massachusetts Institute of Technology sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time California to Massachusetts
24 Apr 1963
17th NBA Championship Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers 4 games to 2
24 Apr 1964
Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty
24 Apr 1965
Comedy in Music-Opus 2 closes at John Golden NYC after 192 performances
24 Apr 1965
Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic
24 Apr 1958
Lee Walls hits 3 HRs as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2
24 Apr 1965
NY Met Casey Stengel wins his 3000 game as manager
24 Apr 1966
Atlanta Braves win NL-record 18 straight home games (17 in Milwaukee)
24 Apr 1967
21st NBA Championship Philadelphia 76ers beat SF Warriors 4 games to 2
24 Apr 1968
ABC Masters Bowling Tournament won by Pete Tountas
24 Apr 1968
Leftist students take over Columbia University NYC
24 Apr 1968
Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
24 Apr 1969
Marshall Lin Biao named Maos designated successor as the sole Vice Chairman of the Communist Party of China
24 Apr 1969
US B-52s drop 3000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary
24 Apr 1969
Car firm British Leyland launch the Austin Maxi in Oporto Portugal
24 Apr 1969
Loyalist members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV) explode a bomb at a water pipeline between Lough Neagh and Belfast Northern Ireland
24 Apr 1970
Peoples Republic of China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song East is Red
24 Apr 1970
Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth
24 Apr 1971
Frank Merriwell opens and closes at Longacre Theater NYC (1 performance only)
24 Apr 1974
Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
24 Apr 1979
Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election
24 Apr 1980
US military operation to save 52 hostages in Iran fails 8 die
24 Apr 1981
Bill Shoemaker wins his 8000th race 2000 more than any other jockey
24 Apr 1981
San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record
24 Apr 1982
Cards win 12th game in a row 7-4 over Phillies
24 Apr 1982
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by Mike Durbin
24 Apr 1982
27th Eurovision Song Contest Nicole for Germany wins singing Ein bichen Frieden in Harrogate
24 Apr 1983
Show Boat opens at Uris Theater NYC for 73 performances
24 Apr 1983
Austrian socialist party loses parliamentary election
24 Apr 1985
Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for Yin
24 Apr 1988
NFL Draft Auburn tight end Aundray Bruce first pick by Atlanta Falcons
24 Apr 1989
10s of thousands of student strikes in Beijing China
24 Apr 1989
Massachusetts declares today New Kids on the Block Day
24 Apr 1990
Brian Friels play Dancing at Lughnasa premieres in Dublin (Tony Award Best Play)
24 Apr 1990
Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies
24 Apr 1990
US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orbit
24 Apr 1990
West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
24 Apr 1990
Gruinard Island Scotland is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
24 Apr 1991
Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918.
24 Apr 1992
Man of La Mancha opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 108 performances
24 Apr 1992
Vinson Pike fined 1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures
24 Apr 1993
The IRA explodes a 1000kg car bomb in Bishopsgate London killing a news photographer and injuring 44 others
24 Apr 1993
Firestone World Bowling Tournament of Champions won by George Branham
24 Apr 1994
Broken Glass opens at Booth Theater NYC for 73 performances
24 Apr 1994
Flowering Peach closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 41 performances
24 Apr 1994
Armando Calderon Sol wins El Salvador presidential election
24 Apr 1994
Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg 9 killed
24 Apr 1994
NFL Draft Ohio State defensive tackle Dan Wilkinson first pick by Cincinnati Bengals
24 Apr 1995
Package bomb linked to Unabomber blows up killing Gilbert B Murray
24 Apr 1996
Jack-Night on Town with John Barrymore opens at Belasco for 12 performances
24 Apr 1996
Highest scoring baseball game in 17 years - Twins 24 Tigers 11
24 Apr 1996
The UN and Iraq end a third round of negotiations over Iraqs possible sale of 1 billion of oil for 90 days for a 180-day trial period
24 Apr 1997
Steel Peer opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 76 performances
24 Apr 2004
United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years ago as reward for cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction
24 Apr 2004
NFL Draft Ole Miss quarterback Eli Manning first pick by San Diego Chargers
24 Apr 2006
King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
24 Apr 2007
Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime
24 Apr 2013
33 people are killed and 115 are injured after a magnitude 5.7 earthquake strikes Jalalabad Afghanistan
24 Apr 2013
Deadliest structural failure in history when 1134 mostly garment workers killed and 2500 injured after the Rana Plaza building collapses in Savar Upazila Bangladesh
24 Apr 2015
Armenia commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide by the Ottoman Empire
24 Apr 2018
Suffragist Millicent Fawcett is the first woman to have a statue erected in Parliament Square London England
24 Apr 2018
Streaming music services overtake worldwide sales of CDs and vinyl for the first time according to IFPI
24 Apr 2018
Golden State Killer suspect Joseph DeAngelo arrested and charged with eight murders after being identified through genealogy websites
24 Apr 1704
1st continuously published newspaper in America - The Boston News-Letter published in Boston by John Campbell [1]
24 Apr 1895
Canadian-American adventurer Joshua Slocum sets sail from Boston Massachusetts on a solo around-the-world voyage aboard Spray an 11.2-m oyster sloop [1]
24 Apr 1915
Leaders of the Armenian community in Constantinople (now Istanbul) are arrested by Ottoman authorities and many later killed marking the start of the Armenian Genocide
24 Apr 1915
Pittsburgh Rebels Frank Allen no-hits St Louis Terriers (Federal League) 2-0
24 Apr 1946
11 players named to the Baseball Hall of Fame Tinker Evers Chance Burkett McCarthy Waddell Plank Walsh Jack Chesbro Griffith and McGinnity
24 Apr 1950
Leonard Bernsteins musical Peter Pan starring Jean Arthur and Boris Karloff opens at Imperial Theater NYC runs for 320 performances
24 Apr 1990
STS-31 launches the 35th mission of the US Space Shuttle program carrying the Hubble space telescope
24 Apr 1996
31st Academy of Country Music Awards Brooks & Dunn Alan Jackson and Patty Loveless win
24 Apr 1801
1st performance of Joseph Haydns oratorio Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons)
24 Apr 1908
Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock and their children depart Los Angeles in a Packard Thirty endeavoring to become 1st family to travel across United States by car arrive in NYC 32 days 5 hours and 25 minutes later
24 Apr 1959
Netherland Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier)
24 Apr 1971
Skip Redwine and Larry Franks musical Frank Merriwell opens and closes at Longacre Theater NYC (1 performance only)
24 Apr 1986
Film Crocodile Dundee starring Paul Hogan and Linda Kozlowski premieres in Australia (highest grossing film of the year in the US)
24 Apr 1997
Kandor and Ebbs musical Steel Pier opens at Richard Rodgers TheaterNYC runs for 76 performances
24 Apr 2021
At least 82 COVID-19 patients die in a fire at Ibn Khatib hospital in Baghdad Iraq with 100 more injured
24 Apr 1901
First game in baseballs American League Chicago White Stockings win against the Cleveland Blues 8-2 other games rained out
24 Apr 1946
11 players named to the Baseball Hall of Fame Tinker Evers Chance Burkett McCarthy Waddell Plank Walsh Jack Chesbro Griffith and McGinnity
24 Apr 1960
14th Tony Awards The Miracle Worker (play) & Fiorello (musical) win
24 Apr 2022
Slovenian populist prime minister Janez Jana defeated by Freedom Movement s Robert Golob a party only launched in January [1]
24 Apr 2022
Violent clashes between Arab nomads and members of the Massalit community in Sudans West Darfur state result in the deaths of at least 168 people [1]
24 Apr 1655
Piedmontese Easter Massacre Troops of Charles Emmanuel II Duke of Savoy slaughter upwards of 4000 Waldensian civilians for non-compliance with the Edict of 25 January which called for the expulsion or conversion of non-Catholic householders in Piedmont Duchy of Savoy
24 Apr 1841
Inventor and engineer Squire Temple of Utica New York granted a patent for an iron truss bridge [1]
24 Apr 1894
Lave Cross becomes 1st Philadelphia Phillies player to hit for the cycle in 22-5 win over the Bridegrooms at Eastern Park Brooklyn
24 Apr 1917
NY Yankees left-handed pitcher George Mogridge no-hits Boston Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway Park
24 Apr 1964
Gene Roddenberry registers his Star Trek series with the Writers Guild of America
24 Apr 1979
Rhodesian bishop Abel Muzorewa wins general election
24 Apr 1990
Brian Friels stage drama Dancing at Lughnasa opens at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin Ireland later wins Olivier Award Tony Award and Drama Desk Award for Best Play
24 Apr 2023
India surpasses China as the worlds most populous country according to UN estimates with 1425775850 people (estimated to reach 1.7 billion by 2064) [1]
24 Apr 1364
Pope Urban V names John van Virneburg as Bishop of Utrecht
24 Apr 1459
Fra Mauro completes his Map of the World in Venice for King Alfonso V of Portugal - largest known world map from Medieval Europe and the first to show Africa as a free-standing continent [1]
24 Apr 1704
First continuously published newspaper in America The Boston News-Letter is published in Boston by John Campbell [1]
24 Apr 1800
US Library of Congress is established with a 5000 allocation
24 Apr 1833
Jacob Evert and George Dulty patent the first soda fountain
24 Apr 1880
Amateur Athletic Association the governing body for mens athletics in England and Wales is founded in Oxford England
24 Apr 1897
First reporter is assigned to the White House William Price from the Washington Star
24 Apr 1909
Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson run a 100-yard three-legged race in 11 seconds
24 Apr 1921
First municipal elections for men and women in Belgium
24 Apr 1924
Thorvald Stauning becomes prime minister of Denmark for the first time
24 Apr 1928
Fathometer which measures underwater depth is patented
24 Apr 1929
First non-stop flight from England to India takes off
24 Apr 1950
Independent Republic of South Maluku is declared
24 Apr 1962
Massachusetts Institute of Technology sends a TV signal by satellite for the first time from California to Massachusetts
24 Apr 1980
US military operation to rescue 52 hostages in Iran fails 8 die
24 Apr 1981
San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set an NBA regular season game record
24 Apr 1989
Tens of thousands of pro-democracy students strike in Beijing China
24 Apr 1990
Gruinard Island Scotland is officially declared free of anthrax after 48 years of quarantine
24 Apr 1990
West and East Germany agree to merge currencies and economies on July 1
24 Apr 1995
Dow Jones Industrial Average hits record 4303.98
24 Apr 2006
King Gyanendra of Nepal gives in to the demands of protesters and restores the parliament he dissolved in 2002
24 Apr 2024
Gustav Klimts Portrait of Frulein Lieser previously though lost sells for a record Austrian auction price of 30 million euros [1]
24 Apr 1877
Russo-Turkish War Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
24 Apr 1915
WWI German army fires chloroform gas at Canadian forces near the village of St. Julien France
24 Apr 1920
League of Nations assigns British Mandate over Palestine at the San Remo Conference in San Remo Italy [1]
24 Apr 1940
German Nazi official Josef Terboven (41) is appointed Reichskommissar for the Occupied Norwegian Territories holds the position until his suicide at the end of the war
24 Apr 1976
American composer Steve Reichs Music for 16 Musicians scored for four pianos multiple percussion instruments two clarinets a violin a cello and four wordless and amplified womens voices a violin has its world premiere at Town Hall in New York City [1]
24 Apr 1990
West Germany and East Germany agree to merge currencies and economies by July 1
24 Apr 1996
Highest scoring MLB baseball game in 17 years - Minnesota Twins 24 Detroit Tigers 11
24 Apr 1998
Bishop Juan Jos Gerard presents Guatemala Nunca Ms (Guatemala Never Again) a report detailing human rights violations during the Guatemalan civil war
24 Apr 2025
Amsterdams Mayor Femke Halsema apologizes for the citys role in the persecution of its Jewish residents during a Holocaust commemoration at the Hollandsche Schouwburg a theater that the Nazis used as a deportation center over 60000 of the Dutch capitals pre-war Jewish population of 80000 were deported and killed
24 Apr 2025
Sophie Lloyd a female magician who tricked her way into British men-only Magic Circle in 1991 is granted membership 34 years after being expelled [1]