YEAR | DAY | EVENT |
729 | Apr 24 | Egbertus (89), English bishop, St. Egbert, died in Iona. |
1061 | Apr 24 | Halley’s Comet inspired an English monk to predict that England would be destroyed. |
1288 | Apr 24 | Jews of Yroyes France were accused of ritual murder. |
1547 | Apr 24 | Charles V’s troops defeated the Protestant League of Schmalkalden at the battle of Muhlburg. |
1558 | Apr 24 | Mary, Queen of Scotland, married the French dauphin, Francis. |
1570 | Apr 24 | Spanish troops battled followers of Sultan Suleiman. |
1778 | Apr 24 | US Ranger Captain John Paul Jones captured the British ship Drake. |
1792 | Apr 24 | Capt. Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle, an officer stationed in Strasbourg, composed “La Marseillaise,” which later became the national anthem of France. |
1801 | Apr 24 | The 1st performance of Joseph Haydn’s oratorio “Die Jahreszeiten (The Seasons).” |
1833 | Apr 24 | A patent was granted for the first soda fountain. |
1850 | Apr 24 | Louis Alexandre Piccinni (70), composer, died. |
1872 | Apr 24 | Mt. Vesuvius erupted. |
1877 | Apr 24 | Russia declared war on the Ottoman Empire. |
1884 | Apr 24 | Otto von Bismarck cabled Cape Town that South Africa had become a German colony. |
1898 | Apr 24 | Spain declared war on the United States after rejecting America’s ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba. |
1904 | Apr 24 | Friedrich Siemens (77), German industrialist, died. |
1923 | Apr 24 | Colonel Jacob Schick patented Schick razors. |
1928 | Apr 24 | The fathometer, used to measure underwater depth, was patented. |
1941 | Apr 24 | British army began the evacuation of Greece. |
1941 | Apr 24 | Dutch Prince Bernhard became an RAF pilot. |
1950 | Apr 24 | “Peter Pan” opened at Imperial Theater in NYC for 320 performances. |
1961 | Apr 24 | President Kennedy accepted “sole responsibility” following Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. |
1962 | Apr 24 | The Massachusetts Institute of Technology achieved the first satellite relay of a television signal, between Camp Parks, Ca., and Westford, Mass. |
1967 | Apr 24 | Frank Overton (b.1918), American film and TV actor, died. His films included “The Dark At the Top of the Stairs” (1960). |
1972 | Apr 24 | Natalie Clifford Barney (b.1876), lesbian writer and US expatriate, died in Paris. In 2002 Suzanne Rodriguez authored “Wild Heart, A Life: Natalie Clifford Barney’s Journey From Victorian America to the Literary Salons of Paris.” |
1987 | Apr 24 | In Greece 18 people, including 12 US military personnel, were injured when a roadside bomb exploded in the port of Piraeus; the guerrilla group November 17 claimed responsibility. In 2003 Dimitris Angelopoulos testified that he drove a truck in the bus bombing. |
1988 | Apr 24 | Three sailors were killed and 22 injured when fire broke out aboard the submarine USS Bonefish off the Florida coast. |
1989 | Apr 24 | President Bush led a memorial service at the Norfolk Naval Station in Virginia for the 47 sailors killed in a gun-turret explosion aboard the USS Iowa. |
1991 | Apr 24 | A Kurdish rebel leader announced the guerrillas had reached an agreement in principle with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to end the Kurds’ two-week rebellion. |
1993 | Apr 24 | The Irish Republican Army (IRA) exploded a truck bomb in London’s financial district. It killed a photographer and injured 44 people and cost millions of dollars’ worth of damage. |
1995 | Apr 24 | Dow Jones Index hit a record 4303.98. |
1996 | Apr 24 | Negotiators for Congress and the White House agreed on a permanent budget for fiscal year 1996. |
1998 | Apr 24 | The American Health for Women magazine reported that Seattle was the healthiest city for women and that SF rated # 2 and Boston # 3. |
1998 | Apr 24 | Rwanda executed 22 people by firing squad. |
1999 | Apr 24 | It was reported that the details of US sorties flown in Yugoslavia were not being shared with NATO allies in order to prevent leaks from compromising the missions. |
2000 | Apr 24 | Concerned about the disappearance of a laptop computer with highly sensitive documents, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright announced a five-point plan to help guard against such lapses in the future. |
2001 | Apr 24 | Pres. Bush said that the annual process of selling arms to Taiwan, a US policy since 1982, would end. China condemned the recent $5 billion arms sale. |
2002 | Apr 24 | On the 10th anniversary of “Take Our Daughters to Work Day,” the Ms. Foundation announced that boys would be included next year. |
2003 | Apr 24 | Iceland opened a filling station for hydrogen-powered vehicles. |
2006 | Apr 24 | Speaking in Irvine, Calif., President Bush said those calling for massive deportation of the estimated 11 million foreigners living illegally in the United States were not being realistic. |
2007 | Apr 24 | In a harsh exchange, Vice President Dick Cheney accused Democratic leader Harry Reid of personally pursuing a defeatist strategy in Iraq to win votes at home, a charge Reid dismissed as President Bush’s “attack dog” lashing out. |
2008 | Apr 24 | UC Berkeley officials defended an arrangement that allowed campus Police Chief Victoria Harrison (54) to retire last year with a $2.1 million package and then return to the same job for more money. |
2009 | Apr 24 | US federal regulators privately began telling the nation’s 19 largest financial institutions how well they performed in stress tests to assess their soundness. The results were scheduled for public release on May 4. |
2010 | Apr 24 | In Mississippi a devastating tornado sliced through the state killing 10 people including 3 children. Tornadoes also were reported in Louisiana, Arkansas and Alabama with 2 deaths in Alabama. |
2011 | Apr 24 | In New Mexico Margaret Salcedo (48) was mauled to death by a pack of four pit bulls in the town of Truth or Consequences. |
2012 | Apr 24 | Mitt Romney swept five GOP primaries, including Pennsylvania and New York, and solidified his lead in the race to reach the 1,144 delegates necessary to claim the GOP nomination. |
2013 | Apr 24 | Robert Shearer (68), a former San Francisco State Univ. official, was charged with 128 felonies for allegedly taking bribes for a waste-disposal contract that ultimately cost the university millions in additional dollars. Stephen Cheung (47) of Chemical Hazardous Material Technology was charged with 118 felonies, including commercial bribery. |
2014 | Apr 24 | US postal workers in cities large and small rallied against a US Postal service pilot program to open counters in Staples stores. |
Source: Timelines of History
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