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April 24 is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 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 – The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date).
• 1558 – Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
• 1704 – The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1800 – The United States Library of Congress is established when President John Adams signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 USD to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of Congress".
• 1862 – American Civil War: A flotilla commanded by Union Admiral David Farragut passes two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River on its way to capture New Orleans, Louisiana.
• 1877 – Russo-Turkish War: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire.
• 1898 – The Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain.
• 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.
• 1915 – 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 met three German A7Vs.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1960 – A severe earthquake shakes Lar in Fars province, Iran and kills more than 200 people.
• 1961 – The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged.
• 1963 – Marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
• 1964 – Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1975 – The Baader-Meinhof Gang takes 13 hostages at the West German embassy in Stockholm.
• 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 by the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Shuttle mission STS-31 lifts off, carrying Hubble into orbit.

• 1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
• 1993 – The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act comes into force establishing the Panchayati Raj system in India.
• 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 introduced.
• 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, the world's first cloned dog is born in South Korea.
• 2006 – King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
• 2007 – Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
• 2007 – Gliese 581 d discovered by a Chilean observatory and believed to be a planet capable of holding extraterresial life.

Births

• 1533 – William I of Orange (d. 1584)
• 1581 – Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)
• 1620 – John Graunt, English statistician and founder of the science of demography (d. 1674)
• 1706 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (d. 1780)
• 1718 – Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
• 1743 – Edmund Cartwright, British inventor (d. 1823)
• 1784 – Peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860)
• 1815 – Anthony Trollope, English novelist (d. 1882)
• 1845 – Carl Spitteler, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)
• 1856 – Henri Philippe Pétain, French soldier and statesman (d. 1951)
• 1876 – Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960)
• 1876 – Ioannis Georgiadis, Greek fencer (d. 1960)
• 1878 – Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)
• 1882 – Hugh Dowding, commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain (d. 1970)
• 1887 – Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931)
• 1889 – Stafford Cripps, British politician (d. 1952)
• 1889 – Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (d. 1924)
• 1896 – Benjamin Whorf, American linguist (d. 1941)
• 1897 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
• 1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian-born mathematician (d. 1986)
• 1903 – José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange (d. 1936)
• 1904 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter (d. 1997)
• 1905 – Robert Penn Warren, American poet (d. 1989)
• 1906 – William Joyce, Irish fascist (d. 1946)
• 1907 – William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
• 1908 – Marceline Day, American actor (d. 2000)
• 1908 – Józef Gosławski, Polish sculptor and medallic artist (d. 1963)
• 1914 – William Castle, American film director and producer (d. 1977)
• 1914 – Justin Wilson, American Cajun chef and humorist (d. 2001)
• 1916 – Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1922 – J.D. Cannon, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Doris Burn, American children's books author and illustrator
• 1924 – Sir Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician (d. 2009)
• 1924 – Ruth Kobart, American actor and singer (d. 2002)
• 1926 – Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
• 1929 – Dr.Rajkumar, Kannada actor
• 1930 – Jerome Callet, American musician
• 1930 – Richard Donner, American film director and producer
• 1933 – Patricia Bosworth, American actor, journalist, writer and biographer
• 1933 – Claire Davenport, British actress (d. 2002)
• 1933 – Alan Eagleson, Canadian ice hockey agent and promoter
• 1933 – Helmuth Lohner, Austrian actor
• 1933 – Freddie Scott, American singer (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Shirley MacLaine, American actor and author
• 1935 – Tucker Smith, American actor, dancer, and singer
• 1936 – Jill Ireland, British actress (d. 1990)
• 1937 – Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
• 1940 – Sue Grafton, American author
• 1941 – Richard Holbrook, American diplomat
• 1941 – John Williams, Australian guitarist
• 1942 – Richard M. Daley, American politician
• 1942 – Barbra Streisand, American singer and actor
• 1943 – Richard Sterban, American singer
• 1945 – Doug Clifford, American drummer
• 1945 – Robert Knight, American singer
• 1945 – Doug Riley, Canadian musician (d. 2007)
• 1945 – Dick Rivers, French singer and actor
• 1947 – Claude Dubois, Quebec singer and songwriter
• 1947 – Josep Borrell Fontelles, Former President of the European Parliament
• 1947 – Roger D. Kornberg, American chemist, Nobel-prized
• 1948 – Paul Cellucci, 69^th Governor of Massachusetts and former United States Ambassador to Canada
• 1949 – Véronique Sanson, French singer and songwriter
• 1952 – Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
• 1953 – Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer
• 1954 – Mumia Abu-Jamal, American death-row inmate
• 1954 – Captain Sensible, British guitarist (The Damned)
• 1955 – John de Mol, Dutch media businessman
• 1955 – Michael O'Keefe, American actor
• 1957 – David J, British musician
• 1957 – Boris Williams, British musician (The Cure)
• 1958 – Valery Lantratov, Russian ballet dancer
• 1958 – Brian Paddick, British former deputy assistant commissioner and most senior openly gay police officer
• 1959 – Malcolm Oastler, Australian engineer
• 1959 – Dave Ridgway, Canadian football player
• 1959 – Paula Yates, British television presenter (d. 2000)
• 1962 – Stuart Pearce, English footballer and manager
• 1962 – Steve Roach, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1963 – Paula Frazer, American singer/songwriter
• 1963 – Billy Gould, American musician (Faith No More)
• 1963 – Mano Solo, French singer
• 1963 – Tõnu Trubetsky, Estonian musician
• 1964 – Witold Smorawiński, Polish musician, composer
• 1964 – Cedric the Entertainer, American comedian and actor
• 1964 – Djimon Hounsou, Beninese actor
• 1965 – Son Chang Min, South Korean actor
• 1966 – Pierre Brassard, Quebec humorist and actor
• 1966 – Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer
• 1967 – Omar Vizquel, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1968 – Stacy Haiduk, American actress
• 1968 – Todd Jones, American baseball player
• 1968 – Yuji Nagata, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1968 – Hashim Thaci, Kosovan politician
• 1968 – Aidan Gillen, Irish actor
• 1969 – Elias Atmatsidis, Greek footballer
• 1969 – Melinda Clarke, American actress
• 1969 – Viveca Paulin, Swedish actress
• 1970 – Damien Fleming, Australian cricketer
• 1971 – Mauro Pawlowski, Belgian guitarist and singer
• 1972 – Rab Douglas, Scottish footballer
• 1972 – Nicolas Gill, Canadian judoka
• 1972 – Chipper Jones, American baseball player
• 1972 – Jure Košir, Slovenian skier
• 1973 – Eric Snow, American basketball player
• 1973 – Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
• 1973 – Gabby Logan, British television presenter
• 1974 – Kristie Krabe, American stage actress
• 1974 – Eric Kripke, American television writer, director and producer
• 1974 – Derek Luke, American actor
• 1974 – Brian Marshall, American bassist (Creed, Alter Bridge)
• 1974 – Dave Vitty, British radio personality
• 1974 – Stephen Wiltshire, British artist, autistic savant
• 1975 – Sam Doumit, American actress
• 1975 – Thad Luckinbill, American actor
• 1976 – Steve Finnan, Irish footballer
• 1977 – Siarhey Balakhonau, Belarusian writer
• 1977 – Carlos Beltrán, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1978 – Eric Balfour, American actor
• 1978 – Kim Hyun-ju, Korean actress
• 1978 – Stella Damasus Aboderin, Nigerian actress
• 1979 – Laurentia Tan, Singaporean Paralympic equestrienne
• 1980 – Fernando Arce, Mexican footballer
• 1980 – Austin Nichols, American actor
• 1980 – Danny Gokey, American singer
• 1980 – Karen Asrian, Armenian chess Grandmaster (d. 2008)
• 1981 – Taylor Dent, American tennis player
• 1982 – Kelly Clarkson, American singer
• 1983 – Princess Iman bint Al Hussein of Jordan
• 1984 – Tyson Ritter, American musician
• 1986 – Aaron Cunningham, American baseball player
• 1987 – Kristopher Letang, Canadian hockey player
• 1987 – Jan Vertonghen, Belgian footballer
• 1992 – Doc Shaw, American child actor
• 1994 – Austin Rogers, American actor
• 1998 – Ryan Newman, American actress

Deaths

• 624 – Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury
• 709 – Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint
• 1338 – Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291)
• 1342 – Pope Benedict XII (b. 1285)
• 1622 – Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar and saint (b. 1577)
• 1656 – Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
• 1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
• 1736 – Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663)
• 1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
• 1794 – Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier; father of Axel von Fersen the Younger (b. 1719)
• 1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
• 1891 – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (b. 1800)
• 1924 – G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
• 1938 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
• 1939 – Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1942 – Karin Boye, Swedish author (b. 1900)
• 1942 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
• 1944 – William Stephens, American U.S. House of Representative, 24th Governor of California (b. 1859)
• 1945 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)
• 1947 – Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
• 1947 – Hans Biebow, German WWII figure (b. 1902)
• 1957 – Harry McClintock, American country singer and hobo (b. 1882)
• 1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1964 – Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895)
• 1965 – Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
• 1967 – Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (b. 1927)
• 1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1975 – Pete Ham, Welsh musician (Badfinger) (b. 1947)
• 1980 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
• 1982 – Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete (b. 1896)
• 1983 – Rolf Stommelen, German race car driver (b. 1943)
• 1986 – Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor (b. 1896)
• 1993 – Oliver Tambo, South African activist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1997 – Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician (b. 1927)
• 1997 – Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer (b. 1922)
• 2000 – William Moore, English actor (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Al Hibbler, American singer (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor (b. 1922)
• 2002 – Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourgish sculptor (b. 1908)
• 2004 – Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)
• 2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
• 2006 – Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
• 2006 – Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
• 2007 – Roy Jenson, American actor (b. 1927)
• 2009 – John Michell, British writer (b. 1933)

Holidays and observances

• Australia – Kapyong Day a day of remembrance for Korean War veterans, named after the Battle of Kapyong in 1951
• The Gambia – Republic Day in (1970).
• Nepal - Democracy Day, commemorating the reinstitution of parliament in 2006
• Niger - Concord Day, commemorating the 1995 peace accord ending the Tuareg Rebellion

in the Roman Catholic Church:

• Saint Egbert of Northumbria
• Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen
• Saint Honorius

In the Anglican Communion:

• Saint Wilfrid

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004 

In war, you win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash. ~ Douglas MacArthur

• selected by Kalki

2005 

Everything seems an echo of something else. ~ Robert Penn Warren (born 24 April 1905)

• selected by Kalki

2006 

The end of man is knowledge but there's one thing he can't know. He can't know whether knowledge will save him or kill him. He will be killed, all right, but he can't know whether he is killed because of the knowledge which he has got or because of the knowledge which he hasn't got and which if he had it would save him. ~ Robert Penn Warren (born 24 April 1905)

• selected by Kalki

2007

I judge a man by his actions with men, much more than by his declarations Godwards. When I find him to be envious, carping, spiteful, hating the successes of others, and complaining that the world has never done enough for him, I am apt to doubt whether his humility before God will atone for his want of manliness. ~ Anthony Trollope

• proposed by Kalki

2008

The poem... is a little myth of man's capacity of making life meaningful. And in the end, the poem is not a thing we see — it is, rather, a light by which we may see — and what we see is life. ~ Robert Penn Warren

• proposed by Kalki

2009

The most powerful weapon to conquer the devil is humility. For, as he does not know at all how to employ it, neither does he know how to defend himself from it. ~ Vincent de Paul

• proposed by Zarbon

Suggestions

There can only be peace when they will start to love their children more than they hate us. ~ Golda Meir

• 3. Nominated for Israel Independence Day (Yom Ha'atzma'ut) 2007. LordAmeth 18:46, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 16:41, 23 April 2008 (UTC) 3 Kalki 11:11, 23 April 2007 (UTC) No longer associated with this date — Yom Ha'atzmaut, falls on 8 May this year, and there remains no definite source for this statement. In 2007 I ranked it 3 and remarked: leaning towards a four, but only for 2007, as the Gregorian date varies for Yom Ha'atzma'ut, which is based on the Hebrew calendar. It also fits in well with the previous QOTD by Shakespeare. But I would prefer to use one of the better sourced or more widely used variants:

Peace will come when the Arabs will love their children more than they hate us.

or

Peace will come when the Arabs start to love their children more than they hate us.

Despite believing these sentiments probably originated with a statement of Meir somewhere, and liking this much in a more universal sense, of there being peace when people start loving their children more than they hate each other, there is not yet a definitely reliable source for this, and I am declining to use it for this date. Hopefully some definite source of Meir's exact statement can be found in the months ahead, and this can be used at some other date. ~ Kalki 21:50, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

• 2 Zarbon 00:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Life is so unlike theory. ~ Anthony Trollope (born 24 April 1815)

• 3 Kalki 11:11, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:54, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 00:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

There is no such mischievous nonsense in all the world as equality. What men ought to want is liberty. ~ Anthony Trollope

• 3 Kalki 11:11, 23 April 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:54, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 00:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I cannot hold with those who wish to put down the insignificant chatter of the world. ~ Anthony Trollope

• 3 Kalki 11:11, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:54, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 00:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

The best way to be thankful is to use the goods the gods provide you. ~ Anthony Trollope

• 3 Kalki 22:23, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 00:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 18:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

In separateness only does love learn definition. ~ Robert Penn Warren

• 3 Kalki 22:23, 23 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 00:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 18:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

So little time we live in Time,
And we learn all so painfully,
That we may spare this hour's term
To practice for Eternity.
~ Robert Penn Warren ~

• 3 Kalki 22:23, 23 April 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4
• 1 Zarbon 00:12, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 18:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

...the basic principles of the military services are unchangeable. Courage and candor, obedience and comradeship, love of fatherland and loyalty to the State: these are ever the distinguishing characteristics of the soldier and sailor. Building character through intelligent training and education is always the first and greatest goal. ~ Erich Raeder

• 3 Zarbon 04:19, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:20, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:42, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

But optics sharp it needs, I ween,
To see what is not to be seen.
~ John Trumbull

• 3 Zarbon 23:29, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:38, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:42, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

As though there were a tie
And obligation to posterity.
We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse:
What has posterity done for us.
That we, lest they their rights should lose,
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
~ John Trumbull

• 3 Zarbon 23:29, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:38, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:42, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

No man e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law.
~ John Trumbull

• 3 Zarbon 23:29, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:38, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:42, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

You will find out that Charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of soup and the full basket. But you will keep your gentleness and your smile. It is not enough to give soup and bread. This the rich can do. You are the servant of the poor, always smiling and good-humored. They are your masters, terribly sensitive and exacting master you will see. and the uglier and the dirtier they will be, the more unjust and insulting, the more love you must give them. It is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them. ~ Vincent de Paul

• 2 Zarbon 23:34, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 23:38, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:42, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

However great the work that God may achieve by an individual, he must not indulge in self-satisfaction. He ought rather to be all the more humbled, seeing himself merely as a tool which God has made use of. ~ Vincent de Paul

• 3 Zarbon 23:34, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 23:38, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 23:42, 23 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer. ~ Clement Freud

• 3 Zarbon 23:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

In all things there must be order, but it must of such a kind as is possible to observe...to see a man burnt for doing as he thought right, harms the people, for this is a matter of conscience. ~ William the Silent

• 3 Zarbon 23:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

It is not possible for me to bear alone such labours and the burden of such weighty cares as press on me from hour to hour, without one man at my side to help me. I have not a soul to aid me in all my anxieties and toils. ~ William the Silent

• 2 Zarbon 23:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 00:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

We must have patience and not lose heart, submitting to the will of God, and striving incessantly, as I have resolved to do, come what may. ~ William the Silent

• 2 Zarbon 23:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

One need not hope in order to undertake, nor succeed in order to persevere. ~ William the Silent

• 3 Zarbon 23:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

For me nature is not a landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces - an event rather than an appearance. ~ Bridget Riley

• 2 Zarbon 23:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Do you see law and order? There is nothing but disorder, and instead of law there is the illusion of security. It is an illusion because it is built on a long history of injustices: racism, criminality, and the genocide of millions. Many people say it is insane to resist the system, but actually, it is insane not to. ~ Mumia Abu-Jamal

• 2 Zarbon 23:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Politics is the art of making the people believe that they are in power, when in fact, they have none. ~ Mumia Abu-Jamal

• 2 Zarbon 23:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 00:15, 24 April 2009 (UTC) such is conventional politics, and conventional political rhetoric, but there are notions of politics and rhetoric far beyond such tripe and such tropes.

From StrategyWiki, the free strategy guide and walkthrough wiki

Games released on April 24.

From Wikia Gaming, your source for walkthroughs, games, guides, and more!

Game releases

• 2008
  • Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis for PlayStation 2 in Japan (Gust Best Price version)
• 2007
  • Aedis Eclipse: Generation of Chaos for PlayStation Portable
• 2006
  • Field Commander for PlayStation Portable in North America
  • FIFA 06 for GameCube, PlayStation 2, Xbox and Xbox 360 in North America
  • Rampage: Total Destruction
• 2000
  • EverQuest: The Ruins of Kunark for PC
• 1992
  • Championship Rally for Nintendo Entertainment System

From Familypedia

April 24 is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 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 - Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional).
• 1558 - Mary Queen of Scots marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
• 1704 - The first regular newspaper in the United States, the Boston New-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".
• 1862 - American Civil War: A flotilla commanded by Union Admiral David Farragut passes two Confederate forts on the Mississippi River on its way to capture New Orleans.
• 1863 - The Keyesville Massacre: a massacre of 53 Native American men from the Tehachapi tribe in Keyesville.
• 1877 - Russo-Turkish War: Russia declares war on Ottoman Empire.
• 1907 - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey, for the exclusive use of his employees is opened.
• 1913 - The skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City was opened.
• 1915 - The Armenian Genocide began with a massacre of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople (now Istanbul).
• 1916 - Easter Rising begins: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett start a rebellion in Ireland.
• 1918 - First tank to tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.
• 1941 - World War II: Operation Demon – The United Kingdom begins evacuating Greece.
• 1953 - Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom.
• 1955 - Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemned colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.
• 1961 - The 17th century Swedish ship Vasa is salvaged.
• 1963 - Marriage of Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London.
• 1964 - Mexico becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
• 1965 - Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic Colonel Francisco Caamaño, overthrows the triumvirate that was in power since the coup d'état against Juan Bosch.
• 1967 - Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1, when the parachute fails to open. He was the first human to die during a space mission.
• 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.
• 1975 - The Baader-Meinhof Gang blow up the West German embassy in Stockholm.
• 1980 - Eight U.S. servicemen died in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempted to end the Iran hostage crisis.
• 1990 - STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched by the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Shuttle mission STS-31 lifts off, carrying Hubble into orbit.

• 1990 - Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of anthrax after 48 years of quarantine.
• 1991 - Freddie Stowers is awarded the posthumous Medal of Honor for which he had been recommended in 1918.
• 1993 - The 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act came into force establishing Panchayati Raj system in India.
• 1993 - An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of City of London.
• 1996 - In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.
• 2004 - US 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.
• 2006 - King Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the parliament that he dissolved in 2002.
• 2007 - Iceland announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.

Births

• 1533 - William I of Orange (d. 1584)
• 1581 - Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660)
• 1706 - Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (d. 1780)
• 1718 - Nathaniel Hone, Irish-born painter (d. 1784)
• 1743 - Edmund Cartwright, British inventor (d. 1823)
• 1784 - Peter Vivian Daniel, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1860)
• 1815 - Anthony Trollope, English novelist (d. 1882)
• 1845 - Carl Spitteler, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
• 1856 - Henri Philippe Pétain, French soldier and statesman (d. 1951)
• 1876 - Erich Raeder, German naval commander (d. 1960)
• 1876 - Ioannis Georgiadis, Greek fencer (d. 1960)
• 1878 - Jean Crotti, Swiss artist (d. 1958)
• 1882 - Hugh Dowding, Scottish fighter pilot (d. 1970)
• 1887 - Denys Finch Hatton, English big-game hunter (d. 1931)
• 1889 - Stafford Cripps, British politician (d. 1952)
• 1889 - Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (d. 1924)
• 1896 - Benjamin Whorf, American linguist (d. 1941)
• 1897 - Manuel Ávila Camacho, President of Mexico (d. 1955)
• 1899 - Oscar Zariski, Russian-born mathematician (d. 1986)
• 1903 - José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange (d. 1936)
• 1904 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch painter (d. 1997)
• 1905 - Robert Penn Warren, American poet (d. 1989)
• 1906 - William Joyce, Irish fascist (d. 1946)
• 1907 - William Sargant, British psychiatrist (d. 1988)
• 1908 - Marceline Day, American actress (d. 2000)
• 1914 - William Castle, American film director and producer (d. 1977)
• 1916 - Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
• 1922 - J.D. Cannon, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1924 - Sir Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician
• 1926 - Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
• 1929 - Dr.Rajkumar, Kannada actor
• 1930 - Jerome Callet, American musician
• 1930 - Richard Donner, American film director and producer
• 1933 - Claire Davenport, British actress (d. 2002)
• 1933 - Helmuth Lohner, Austrian actor
• 1933 - Freddie Scott, American singer
• 1933 - Alan Eagleson, Canadian hockey agent and promoter
• 1934 - Shirley MacLaine, American actress and author
• 1936 - Jill Ireland, British actress (d. 1990)
• 1937 - Joe Henderson, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
• 1940 - Sue Grafton, American author
• 1941 - John Williams, Australian guitarist
• 1942 - Richard M. Daley, American politician
• 1942 - Barbra Streisand, American singer/actress
• 1945 - Doug Clifford, American drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
• 1945 - Doug Riley, Canadian musician (d. 2007)
• 1945 - Dick Rivers, French singer and actor
• 1945 - Robert Knight, American singer
• 1947 - Roger D. Kornberg, American chemist, Nobel-prized
• 1947 - Claude Dubois, Quebec singer and songwriter
• 1947 - Josep Borrell Fontelles, Former President of the European Parilment, Socialist
• 1949 - Véronique Sanson, French singer and songwriter
• 1952 - Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
• 1953 - Eric Bogosian, American actor and writer
• 1954 - Mumia Abu-Jamal, American death-row inmate
• 1954 - Captain Sensible, British guitarist (The Damned)
• 1955 - John de Mol, Dutch media tycoon
• 1957 - David J, British musician
• 1957 - Boris Williams, British musician (The Cure)
• 1958 - Valery Lantratov, Russian ballet dancer
• 1958 - Brian Paddick, British former deputy assistant commissioner and most senior openly gay police officer
• 1959 - Malcolm Oastler, Australian engineer
• 1959 - Dave Ridgway, Canadian football player
• 1960 - Paula Yates, British television presenter (d. 2000)
• 1962 - Stuart Pearce, English footballer and manager
• 1962 - Steve Roach, Australian rugby league footballer
• 1963 - Paula Frazer, American singer/songwriter (Tarnation)
• 1963 - Billy Gould, American musician (Faith No More)
• 1963 - Mano Solo, French singer
• 1963 - Tõnu Trubetsky, Estonian musician (Vennaskond), anarchist
• 1964 - Cedric the Entertainer, American comedian and actor
• 1964 - Djimon Hounsou, African-American actor
• 1965 - Son Chang Min, South Korean actor
• 1966 - Alessandro Costacurta, Italian footballer
• 1967 - Omar Vizquel, American baseball player
• 1968 - Stacy Haiduk, American actress
• 1968 - Hashim Thaci, Kosovan politician
• 1968 - Yuji Nagata, Japanese professional wrestler
• 1968 - Todd Jones, American baseball player
• 1969 - Melinda Clarke, American actress
• 1969 - Elias Atmatsidis, Greek footballer
• 1969 - Viveca Paulin, Swedish actress
• 1971 - Mauro Pawlowski, Belgian guitarist and singer (Evil Superstars and dEUS)
• 1971 - Aaron Austin, American pornographic actor
• 1972 - Chipper Jones, baseball player
• 1972 - Jure Košir, Slovenian skier
• 1972 - Rab Douglas, Scottish footballer
• 1972 - Nicolas Gill, French Canadian judoka
• 1973 - Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
• 1974 - Dave Vitty, aka Comedy Dave, British television host
• 1974 - Brian Marshall, American bassist (Creed)
• 1974 - Joseph Bruce, American rapper (Insane Clown Posse)
• 1974 - Kristie Krabe, American stage actress
• 1974 - Derek Luke, American actor
• 1975 - Sam Doumit, American actress
• 1976 - Steve Finnan, Irish footballer
• 1977 - Carlos Beltran, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
• 1977 - Siarhiej Bałachonaŭ, Belarusian writer
• 1978 - Eric Balfour, American actor
• 1978 - Kim Hyun-ju, Korean actress
• 1980 - Fernando Arce, Mexican footballer
• 1980 - Austin Nichols, American actor
• 1981 - Taylor Dent, American tennis player
• 1982 - Kelly Clarkson, American singer
• 1983 - Princess Iman bint Al Hussein, of Jordan
• 1991 - Steve Finnan, Irish football player
• 1984 - Tyson Ritter, American musician
• 1998 - Ryan Newman, American actress

Deaths

• 624 - Mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury
• 709 - Wilfrid, English archbishop and saint
• 1338 - Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291)
• 1342 - Pope Benedict XII (b. 1285)
• 1622 - Fidelis of Sigmaringen, Swiss friar, martyr, and saint (b. 1577)
• 1656 - Thomas Fincke, Danish mathematician and physicist (b. 1561)
• 1731 - Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
• 1736 - Prince Eugene of Savoy, French-born Austrian general (b. 1663)
• 1779 - Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College (b. 1711)
• 1852 - Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
• 1891 - Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, Prussian field marshal (b. 1800)
• 1924 - G. Stanley Hall, American psychologist (b. 1844)
• 1938 - George Grey Barnard, American sculptor (b. 1863)
• 1939 - Louis Trousselier, French cyclist (b. 1881)
• 1942 - Karin Boye, Swedish author (b. 1900)
• 1942 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (b. 1874)
• 1944 - William Stephens, U.S. political figure (b. 1859)
• 1945 - Ernst-Robert Grawitz, German physician (b. 1899)
• 1947 - Willa Cather, American writer (b. 1873)
• 1947 - Hans Biebow, German war criminal (b. 1902)
• 1960 - Max von Laue, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1879)
• 1964 - Gerhard Domagk, German bacteriologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (declined) (b. 1895)
• 1965 - Louise Dresser, American actress (b. 1878)
• 1967 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut (b. 1927)
• 1974 - Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
• 1975 - Pete Ham, Welsh musician and frontman of Badfinger (b. 1947)
• 1980 - Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
• 1982 - Ville Ritola, Finnish athlete (b. 1896)
• 1986 - Wallis Simpson, American wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor (b. 1896)
• 1993 - Oliver Tambo, South African activist and politician (b. 1917)
• 1997 - Pat Paulsen, American comedian and politician (b. 1927)
• 1997 - Eugene Stoner, American engineer and weapons designer (b. 1922)
• 2001 - Al Hibbler, American singer (b. 1915)
• 2001 - Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor (b. 1922)
• 2004 - Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur (b. 1906)
• 2005 - Ezer Weizman, President of Israel (b. 1924)
• 2005 - Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist (b. 1910)
• 2006 - Steve Stavro, Canadian businessman and sports team owner (b. 1927)
• 2006 - Moshe Teitelbaum, Hassidic rabbi (b. 1914)
• 2006 - Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)

Holidays and observances

• Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day.
• Australia - Kapyong Day a day of remembrance for Korean War veterans, named after the Battle of Kapyong in 1951
• The Gambia - Republic Day in (1970).

Liturgical feast days

in the Roman Catholic Church:

• Saint Alexander (died 178)
• Saint Egbert of Northumbria
• Saint Fidelis of Sigmaringen
• Saint Honorius
• Saint Maria Euphrasia Pelletier (d. 1868)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada

Julian Edwards - Born 1993