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April 24th may not, at first glance, appear to be one of the most significant days of the year to some, but it is after all the day yours truly was born; thus making it noteworthy to the poor doctor I spanked. Some other interesting or noteworthy events of this day through history include:
April 24th - in History
- 1514 Selim I, Sultan of Turkey, begins march to Persia with his army
- 1514 Johann Reuchlin, found not guilty of being a heretic by the Bishop of Spires' tribunal
- 1585 Pope Sixtus V elected as successor to Gregory XIII
- 1617 Assassination of Concino Concini, the Marechal d'Ancre
- 1704 the first regularly published US newspaper is founded, The Boston News Letter
- 1778 Continental Navy Sloop Ranger captures the HMS Drakeat Carrickfergus, Ireland
- 1792 "La Marseillaise", the French national anthem, composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
- 1797 Jack Anderson becomes a runaway slave, an offer of $20 is later offered for his return.
- 1800 the Library of Congress established with $5,000 allocation appropriated by President John Adams
- 1801 Premiere of The Seasons oratorio by Haydn
- 1819 Britain acquires Parga from the Ionian Republic
- 1827 the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) is incorporated
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- 1833 Jacob Ebert and George Dulty awarded patent for the soda fountain
- 1847 Fort Moore is established at Los Angeles, California
- 1884 USS Thetis, Bear, and Alert sailed to the Artic in search of the lost Greeley expedition
- 1886 petroleum discovered in the Middle East
- 1888 the Eastman Kodak company was formed
- 1890 the Actuary Society of America is formed
- 1891 Tom Taylor made a break of 1467 in a billiards match at the Royal Aquarium, London
- 1898 Spain declares war on the United States marking the formal beginning of the
Spanish-American War
- 1906 John Paul Jones commemorated at the Naval Academy
- 1908 Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock first to travel across the US continent by auto
- Woolworth Building is dedicated in Chicago, Illinios
- 1915 several hundred Armenians in Constantinople on charges of high treason starting the extermination operation by the Osmanic Empire
- 1916 Irish Easter Rebellion for independemce from England in Ireland, the General Post Office in Dublin is seized
- 1934 Laurens Hammond patents the electric organ
- 1941 WWII - German forces break through British positions at Thermopylae in Greece
- 1941 WWII - British expeditionary forces begin evacuating its troops to Egypt and Crete
- 1945 WWII - the Dachau concentration camp is liberated by US forces
- 1945 WWII - the US Seventh Army crosses the Danube at Dillingen capturing Ulm
- 1950 the state of Jordan is created
- 1953 British Prime Minister Winston Churchill knighted by the Queen
- 1961 John F. Kennedy accepts "sole responsibility" following the Bay of Pigs
- 1961 General de Gaulle of France ordered a blockade of Algeria
- 1967 U.S.S.R. Cosmonaut Colonel Vladimir M. Komarov is killed when the Soyuz 1 spacecraft plunges 4.3 miles to Earth.
- 1968 Mauritius joins the United Nations
- 1970 China becomes the 5th nation to launch a satellite into orbit
- 1970 Gambia becomes an Independent Monarchy in the British Commonwealth
- 1971 500,000 people gather in Washington D.C in the largest gathering ever to protest the US war in Vietnam
- 1972 Father's Day guaranteed annual recognition by a Presidential Proclamation
- 1974 US Naval forces begin minesweeping operations in the Suez Canal Zone
- 1977 the U.S. ratified the worldwide Chemical Weapons Convention treaty
- 1980 Eight Americans killed and 5 injured in an attempt to rescute the hostages at the US embassy in Teheran
- 1981 the IBM PC is introduced
- 1983 International demonstrations are held against the plight of laboratory animals
- 1985 Israel begins the third stage of its troop removal from Lebanon
April 24th - Birthdays
- 1533 William the Silent, Prince of Orange
- 1562 Hsu Kuang-chi,Christian writer
- 1620 John Graunt, English statistician
- 1706 Giovanni Martini, Italian composer - Bologna
- 1721 Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German composer
- 1743 Edmund Cartwright, clergyman, inventor - Nottinghamshire
- 1750 Simon Lhuilier, mathemetician - Geneva, Switzerland
- 1752 Henry Latimer, politician - Newport, Deleware
- 1776 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder Farmer's Almanac
- 1783 John Floyd, Socialist & Viriginia Presidential candidate
- 1784 Levin Gale, politician - Elkton, Maryland
- 1799 David Wallace, politician - Lewistown, Pennsilvanyia
- 1800 George Hellmesberger, Austrian violinist, composer and teacher
- 1815 Anthony Trollope, writer - London, England
- 1817 Jean-Charles-Galinard de Marignac, Swiss chemist
- 1825 R.M. Ballantyne, Scottish writer
- 1845 Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet (1919 Nobel prize winner)
- 1846 Marcus Andrew Hislop Clarke, Australian author
- 1847 Susan Dimock, physician
- 1863 Giovanni Vailati, mathemetician - Crema, Italy
- 1867 Karel Navratil, Czech composer - Prague
- 1871 Neil E. Reid, politician, judge - Mt. Clemens, Michigan
- 1884 Pierre Le Meillour, anti-militarist - France, Italy
- 1889 Oscar Zariski. mathemetician - Kobrin, Belarus, Russian Empire
- 1905 Helen Tamiris, choreographer, director
- 1905 Robert Porter Allen, American author and conservationist
- 1905 Robert Penn Warren, poet & novelist - Guthrie, Kentucky (Pulitzer prize winner)
- 1932 Charles N.Youngblood Jr., politician & disabled American Vet - Detroit, Michigan
- 1934 Shirley MacLaine, American actress- Richmond, Virginia
- 1936 Jill Ireland, actress
- 1941 John Christopher Williams,Australian guitarist - Melbourne, Australia
- 1942 Barbra Streisand, American singer and actress
- 1954 Vince Ferragamo, NFL star
- 1954 Mumia Abu-Jamal, journalist
- 1955 Michael O'Keefe, actor
- 1962 Ole Edvard Antonsen, Norwegian trumpeter
- 1968 Aaron Comess, drummer the Spin Doctors
April 24th - Rest In Peace
- 1731 Daniel Defoe, English novelist
- 1791 Benjamin Harrison, politician - signer of the Declaration of Independence
- 1827 Israel Pickens, politician - b. 1780 Concord North Carolina
- 1861 Daniel Dewey Barnard, politician
- 1884 Isaac Newton Arnold, politician - Illinois
- 1930 Henry Dudeney, mathemetician - Mayfield, Sussex, England
- 1947 Willa Cather, American novelist
- 1948 Manuel Ponce, composer
- 1986 Wallis Warfield, the Duchess of Windsor
- 1998 Mel Powell, Pulitzer Prize winning American composer
April 24th - Annual Events
April 24th - Top Hits
April 24th - Famous Quotes
1750 Samuel Johnson on "Anger; Pride"
"Pride is undoubtedly the original of anger; but pride, like every other passion, if it once breaks loose from reason, counteracts its own purposes. A passionate man,* upon the review of his day, will have very few gratifications to offer to his pride, when he has considered how his outrages were caused, why they were borne, and in what they are likely to end at last."
Johnson: Rambler #11
http://www.samuel johnson.com/anger.html
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This will be updated as more noteworthy or interesting events of the day are found. If you know of one please /msg me. Thanks.
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