24 April
Notable Births
Olivia Gadecki
b. 2002
Australian tennis player (born 2002)
Ziyu He
b. 1999
Chinese violinist (born 1999)
Jerry Jeudy
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Ryan Whitney (actress)
b. 1998
American actress (born 1998)
Lydia Ko
b. 1997
New Zealand professional golfer (born 1997)
Veronika Kudermetova
b. 1997
Russian tennis player (born 1997)
Ashleigh Barty
b. 1996
Australian former tennis player (born 1996)
Kehlani
b. 1995
American singer-songwriter (born 1995)
Jordan Fisher
b. 1994
American actor and singer (born 1994)
Caspar Lee
b. 1994
British-South African YouTuber (born 1994)
Ben Davies (footballer, born 1993)
b. 1993
Welsh footballer (born 1993)
Joe Keery
b. 1992
American actor and musician (born 1992)
Laura Kenny
b. 1992
English cyclist (born 1992)
Jack Quaid
b. 1992
American actor (born 1992)
Sigrid Agren
b. 1991
French model
Kelly Clarkson
b. 1982
American singer-songwriter and TV personality (born 1982)
Carlos Beltrán
b. 1977
Puerto Rican baseball player (born 1977)
Sachin Tendulkar
b. 1973
Indian cricketer (born 1973)
Barbra Streisand
b. 1942
American singer and actress (born 1942)
Shirley MacLaine
b. 1934
American actress and author (born 1934)
Notable Deaths
Roy Phillips
d. 2025
British musician (1941–2025)
Bob Cole (sportscaster)
d. 2024
Canadian sportscaster (1933–2024)
Donald Payne Jr.
d. 2024
American politician (1958–2024)
Mike Pinder
d. 2024
British musician (1941–2024)
Death of Wang Xiaolong
d. 2023
Chinese coast guard (1995–2023)
Andrew Woolfolk
d. 2022
American saxophonist (1950–2022)
Robert M. Pirsig
d. 2017
American writer and philosopher (1928–2017)
Tommy Kono
d. 2016
American weightlifter (1930–2016)
Władysław Bartoszewski
d. 2015
Polish politician and activist (1922–2015)
Hans Hollein
d. 2014
Austrian architect and designer (1934–2014)
Bhuma Shobha Nagi Reddy
d. 2014
Indian politician (1968–2014)
Tadeusz Różewicz
d. 2014
Polish poet, playwright, writer, and translator (1921–2014)
Sathya Sai Baba
d. 2011
Indian Godman (1926–2011)
Jimmy Giuffre
d. 2008
American jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, composer, and arranger (1921–2008)
Brian Labone
d. 2006
English footballer (1940–2006)
Moshe Teitelbaum (Satmar)
d. 2006
Hasidic rabbi
Ezer Weizman
d. 2005
President of Israel from 1993 to 2000
Fei Xiaotong
d. 2005
Chinese anthropologist and political figure (1910–2005)
José Giovanni
d. 2004
French writer, filmmaker and criminal (1923-2004)
Estée Lauder (businesswoman)
d. 2004
American businesswoman (1908–2004)
On This Day in History
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2025
A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded.
2025 Nantes school stabbing
2013
A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.
Rana Plaza collapse
2013
Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
April 2013 Bachu unrest
2011
WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
WikiLeaks
2006
Bombings in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab kill 23 people and injure about 80.
2006 Dahab bombings
2005
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
Cardinal (Catholic Church)
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.
Economic sanctions
1996
In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996
1994
A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive.
Douglas DC-3
1993
An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
Provisional Irish Republican Army
1990
STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
STS-31
1990
Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
Gruinard Island
1980
Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
Operation Eagle Claw
1970
China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
Dong Fang Hong 1
1970
The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President.
The Gambia
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.
Astronaut
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".
Vietnam War
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.
Dominican Civil War
1963
Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
Princess Alexandra (born 1936)
1957
Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.
Suez Crisis