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| April 24th, 2005 (April 24 2005) | Event | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI. | |
| April 24th, 2005 (April 24 2005) | Death | Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (born in 1924) | |
| April 24th, 2005 (April 24 2005) | Death | Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (born in 1910) | |
| April 24th, 1975 (April 24 1975) | Event | The Baader-Meinhof Gang blows up the West German embassy in Stockholm. | |
| April 24th, 1975 (April 24 1975) | Birth | Sam Doumit, American actress | |
| April 24th, 1975 (April 24 1975) | Death | Pete Ham, Welsh musician and frontman of Badfinger (born in 1947) | |
| April 24th, 1965 (April 24 1965) | Event | Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamano, overthrows the triumvirate that was in power since the coup d etat against Juan Bosch. | |
| April 24th, 1965 (April 24 1965) | Birth | Son Chang Min, South Korean actor | |
| April 24th, 1965 (April 24 1965) | Death | Louise Dresser, American actress (born in 1878) | |
| April 24th, 1955 (April 24 1955) | Event | The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War. | |
| April 24th, 1955 (April 24 1955) | Birth | John de Mol, Dutch media businessman | |
| April 24th, 1945 (April 24 1945) | Birth | Doug Clifford, American drummer | |
| April 24th, 1945 (April 24 1945) | Birth | Robert Knight, American singer | |
| April 24th, 1945 (April 24 1945) | Birth | Doug Riley, Canadian musician (died in 2007) | |
| April 24th, 1945 (April 24 1945) | Birth | Dick Rivers, French singer and actor | |
| April 24th, 1945 (April 24 1945) | Death | Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (born in 1899) | |
| April 24th, 1915 (April 24 1915) | Event | The Armenian Genocide begins with a massacre of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople (now Istanbul). | |
| April 24th, 1905 (April 24 1905) | Birth | Robert Penn Warren, American poet (died in 1989) | |
| April 24th, 1845 (April 24 1845) | Birth | Carl Spitteler, Nobel laureate (died in 1924) | |
| April 24th, 1815 (April 24 1815) | Birth | Anthony Trollope, English novelist (died in 1882) | Anthony Trollope Quotes |
