April 24 Historical Events

The following events took place on April 24. The list is arranged in chronological order.

Found 45 events. Showing 1 - 30.

• 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).
• 1184 BC
  Traditional date of the fall of Troy.
• 1547
  Battle of Mühlberg. Duke of Alba, commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of Charles I of Spain, defeats the troops of Schmalkaldic League.
• 1558
  Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
• 1704
  The first regular newspaper in British Colonial America, The Boston News-Letter, is published.
• 1800
  The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase “such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress”.
• 1877
  Russo-Turkish War: Russian Empire declares war on Ottoman Empire.
• 1885
  American sharpshooter Annie Oakley is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West.
• 1895
  Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop “Spray”.
• 1904
  The Lithuanian press ban is lifted after almost 40 years.
• 1907
  Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened.
• 1913
  The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened.
• 1914
  The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society.
• 1915
  The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.
• 1916
  Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland.

• 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 ice-trapped ship Endurance.
• 1918
  First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs.
• 1922
  The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
• 1923
  In Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud’s theories of the id, ego, and super-ego.
• 1926
  The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
• 1932
  Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
• 1933
  Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.
• 1944
  World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.
• 1953
  Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 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.
• 1957
  Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
• 1957
  The BBC first broadcast The Sky at Night presented by Patrick Moore
• 1963
  Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
• 1965
  Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that had been in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
• 1967
  Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.