April 24 Events |
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| April 24th, 2007 (April 24 2007) | Event | Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime. | |
| April 24th, 2006 (April 24 2006) | Event | King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002. | |
| 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, 2004 (April 24 2004) | Event | The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction. | |
| April 24th, 1996 (April 24 1996) | Event | In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced. | |
| April 24th, 1993 (April 24 1993) | Event | The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act comes into force establishing Panchayati Raj system in India. | |
| April 24th, 1993 (April 24 1993) | Event | An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London. | |
| April 24th, 1991 (April 24 1991) | Event | Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918. | |
| April 24th, 1990 (April 24 1990) | Event | STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery. | |
| April 24th, 1990 (April 24 1990) | Event | Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine. | |
| April 24th, 1980 (April 24 1980) | Event | Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis. | |
| April 24th, 1975 (April 24 1975) | Event | The Baader-Meinhof Gang blows up the West German embassy in Stockholm. | |
| April 24th, 1970 (April 24 1970) | Event | The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched. | |
| April 24th, 1970 (April 24 1970) | Event | The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President. | |
| April 24th, 1968 (April 24 1968) | Event | Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations. | |
| April 24th, 1967 (April 24 1967) | Event | Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1, when the parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. | |
| April 24th, 1967 (April 24 1967) | Event | Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily." | |
| 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, 1964 (April 24 1964) | Event | Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. | |
| April 24th, 1963 (April 24 1963) | Event | Marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London. | |
| April 24th, 1961 (April 24 1961) | Event | The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged. | |
| 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, 1953 (April 24 1953) | Event | Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom. | Winston Churchill Quotes |
| April 24th, 1918 (April 24 1918) | Event | First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs. | |
| April 24th, 1916 (April 24 1916) | Event | Easter Rising begins: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett start a rebellion in Ireland. | |
| April 24th, 1916 (April 24 1916) | Event | 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. | |
| 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, 1913 (April 24 1913) | Event | The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City is opened. | |
| April 24th, 1907 (April 24 1907) | Event | Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened. | |
| April 24th, 1898 (April 24 1898) | Event | The Spanish-American War: The United States declare war on Spain. | |
| April 24th, 1877 (April 24 1877) | Event | Russo-Turkish War, 1877-1878: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire. | |
| April 24th, 1862 (April 24 1862) | Event | 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. | |
| April 24th, 1800 (April 24 1800) | Event | The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress". | John Adams Quotes |
| April 24th, 1704 (April 24 1704) | Event | The first regular newspaper in the United States, the Boston, Massachusetts New-Letter, is published. | |
| April 24th, 1558 (April 24 1558) | Event | Mary Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin of France, Francois, at Notre Dame de Paris. | |
| April 24th, 1479 (April 24 1479) | Event | Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power effectively shifts to Hatshepsut (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty). | Hatshepsut Quotes |
| April 24th, 1184 (April 24 1184) | Event | Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional). | |
