April 24 in history
Events on April 24
Notable events that happened on April 24 in past years.
- 2025
A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded.
Wikipedia article: 2025 Nantes school stabbing - 2011
WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
Wikipedia article: WikiLeaks - 1996
In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
Wikipedia article: Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 - 1990
STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
Wikipedia article: STS-31 - 1970
China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
Wikipedia article: Dong Fang Hong 1 - 1967
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".
Wikipedia article: Vietnam War - 1955
The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
Wikipedia article: Bandung Conference - 1933
Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
Wikipedia article: Nazi Germany - 1924
Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark (first term).
Wikipedia article: Thorvald Stauning - 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 the crew of the sunken Endurance.
Wikipedia article: Ernest Shackleton - 1913
The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.
Wikipedia article: Woolworth Building - 1877
Russo-Turkish War: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
Wikipedia article: Russo-Turkish War (1877–1878) - 1793
French revolutionary Jean-Paul Marat is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris.
Wikipedia article: Jean-Paul Marat - 934
Abbasid Caliph Al-Qahir is deposed and blinded. His nephew al-Radi succeeds him as caliph.
- 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).
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