Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on April 24 throughout history.
On 24 April 2025, a teenage girl was killed and three students were wounded in a mass stabbing at a private secondary school, Our Lady of All Helps High School in Nantes, Loire-At…
A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded
The Rana Plaza collapse occurred on 24 April 2013 in Savar Upazila, near Dhaka, Bangladesh, when the eight-story Rana Plaza commercial building collapsed due to a structural failu…
A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others
On 24 April 2013, ethnic clashes occurred in Marelbeshi (Bachu), Xinjiang, China. The violence left at least 21 people dead, including 15 police and officials.
Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people
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WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak
Three bomb attacks on the Egyptian resort city of Dahab, in the Sinai Peninsula, took place on 24 April 2006. The resort town is popular with Western tourists and Egyptians alike …
Bombings in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab kill 23 people and injure about 80
A cardinal is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church. As titular members of the clergy of the Diocese of Rome, they serve as advisors to the pope, who is the bishop …
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI
Economic sanctions or embargoes are commercial and financial penalties applied by states or institutions against states, groups, or individuals. Economic sanctions are a form of c…
The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in elim
The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA), Pub. L. 104–132 (text) (PDF), 110 Stat. 1214, enacted April 24, 1996, was introduced to the United States Congre…
In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law
The Douglas DC-3 is a propeller-driven airliner that was manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It had a lasting effect on the airline industry from the 1930s through World…
A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport
The Provisional Irish Republican Army, officially known as the Irish Republican Army and informally known as the Provos, was an Irish republican paramilitary force that sought to …
An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London
STS-31 was the 35th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the tenth flight of the Space Shuttle Discovery. The primary purpose of this mission was the deployment of the Hubb…
STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery
Gruinard Island is a small, oval-shaped Scottish island approximately two kilometres long by one kilometre wide, located in Gruinard Bay, about halfway between Gairloch and Ullapo…
Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine
Operation Eagle Claw was a failed United States Department of Defense attempt to rescue 53 embassy staff held captive by Revolutionary Iran on 24 April 1980. It was ordered by U.S…
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Clement Blair Peach was a New Zealand teacher who was killed during an anti-racism demonstration in Southall, London, England. A campaigner and activist against the far right, in …
Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, dies after being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration agains
Dong Fang Hong 1, in the western world also known as China 1 or PRC 1, was the first space satellite of the People's Republic of China (PRC), launched successfully on 24 April 197…
China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster
The Gambia, officially the Republic of the Gambia, is a country in West Africa. Geographically, the Gambia is the smallest country in continental Africa; it is surrounded by Seneg…
The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as its first President
An astronaut is a person trained, equipped, and deployed by a human spaceflight program to serve as a commander or crew member of a spacecraft. Although generally reserved for pro…
Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open
The Vietnam War was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam and South Vietnam and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Uni…
Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the U
The Dominican Civil War, also known as the April Revolution, took place between April 24, 1965, and September 3, 1965, in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. It started when civili…
Civil war breaks out in the Dominican Republic when Colonel Francisco Caamaño overthrows the triumvirate that had been i
Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy, is a member of the British royal family. She is the only daughter of Prince George, Duke of Kent, and Princess Marina of Greece and…
Marriage of Princess Alexandra of Kent to Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London