April 24 Historical Events

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

Found 45 events. Showing 31 - 45.

• 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.”
• 1968
  Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
• 1970
  The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched.
• 1970
  The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President.
• 1971
  Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1.
• 1980
  Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
• 1990
  STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.

• 1990
  Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
• 1993
  An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
• 1996
  In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
• 2004
  The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
• 2005
  Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
• 2005
  Snuppy becomes world’s first cloned dog.
• 2013
  A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others.
• 2013
  Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China’s Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.