What Happened On April 24 - On This Day

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  • 1184 BC The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
  • 1877 Russo-Turkish War: Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire
  • Colonel ‘Teddy’ Roosevelt (center, with glasses and holstered gun) with his ‘Rough Riders’ after victory at the Battle of San Juan Hill

    Spain Declares War Against the United States

    1898 Spanish–American War: Spain declares war after rejecting US ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba
  • The Provisional Government of the Irish Republic to the people of Ireland

    Easter Proclamation of 1916

    1916 Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin
  • 1967 American General William Westmoreland says in a Vietnam War news conference that the enemy has "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily"
  • 2023 India surpasses China as the worlds most populous country according to UN estimates, with 1,425,775,850 people (estimated to reach 1.7 billion by 2064) [1]
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  • 1962 Massachusetts Institute of Technology sends a TV signal by satellite for the first time from California to Massachusetts
  • 2018 Streaming music services overtake worldwide sales of CDs and vinyl for the first time according to IFPI
  • 1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th horse race, 2,000 more than any other jockey

STS-31 launches, the 35th mission of the US Space Shuttle program, carrying the Hubble space telescope

April 24, 1990

  • William I of Orange

    1533 - 1584

  • Philippe Pétain

    1856 - 1951

  • José Antonio Primo de Rivera

    1903 - 1936

  • William Joyce

    1906 - 1946

  • Richard M. Daley

    83 Years Old

  • Alexis Ohanian

    42 Years Old
More Birthdays on April 24

  • Lou Thesz

    1916 - 2002

  • Paula Yates

    1960 - 2000

  • Shirley MacLaine

    91 Years Old

  • Barbra Streisand

    83 Years Old

  • Kelly Clarkson

    43 Years Old

  • Sachin Tendulkar

    52 Years Old

  • Lydia Ko

    28 Years Old

Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead

April 24, 1969

  • 1558 Mary, Queen of Scots (15) marries French dauphin Francis (14) at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris
  • 1575 William I of Orange marries 3rd wife Charlotte de Bourbon and former French nun
  • 1854 Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria (23) weds Elisabeth, Duchess of Bavaria (16) at the Augustinerkirche, Vienna
  • 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
More April 24 Weddings

  • Daniel Defoe

    1660 - 1731

  • Bud Abbott

    1897 - 1974

  • Wallis Simpson

    1896 - 1986

  • Oliver Tambo

    1917 - 1993

  • Eugene Stoner

    1922 - 1997

  • Estée Lauder

    1906 - 2004
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  • World War I Fighter Ace The Red Baron

    Weekly Quiz for April 20 - 26

    What nationality was WWI fighter ace The Red Baron? What was Elvis Presley's 1st #1 hit record? What country is the Chernobyl nuclear power station located in?
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  • Richard Nixon on the presidential campaign trail

    Richard Nixon, The Only US President to Resign

    April 22, 1994
  • Staff and students from Shakespeare's old school in a birthday parade through the town to put flowers on his grave

    Who Wrote Shakespeare?

    April 23, 1564
  • Konrad Kujau with his faked Hitler diaries in a Hamburg court in 1984

    Hitler's Diaries Fail Forensic Tests

    April 25, 1983
  • Oscar Wilde's trial as recorded in The Illustrated Police News, May 4, 1895

    Oscar Wilde Presses Self-Destruct Button

    April 26, 1895
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