April 24th, 1906

Born on April 24th, 1906

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 43,000 days old!

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What happened on April 24th?

April 24th, 2013

A building in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,134 people, making it the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern history.

April 24th, 1993

The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in London's financial district in Bishopsgate, killing one person, injuring forty-four others, and causing damage that cost £350 million to repair.

April 24th, 1990

The Hubble Space Telescope (pictured) was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery.

April 24th, 1965

Cold War: The Dominican Civil War broke out due to tensions following a military coup against the democratically elected government of President Juan Bosch two years earlier.

April 24th, 1944

World War II: The British Special Boat Service executed a successful raid to destroy an Axis radio station on the Greek island of Santorini.

April 24th, 1933

Nazi Germany began its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.

April 24th, 1932

An estimated 400 ramblers committed a wilful mass trespass of Kinder Scout (pictured) in the Peak District to highlight the denial of access to areas of open country in England.

April 24th, 1922

The first portion of the Imperial Wireless Chain, a strategic international wireless telegraphy communications network created to link the countries of the British Empire, opened.

April 24th, 1918

First World War: The Second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux began, which contained the first instance of tanks fighting against each other.

April 24th, 1916

Irish republicans led by Patrick Pearse began the Easter Rising against British rule in Ireland, and proclaimed the Irish Republic an independent state.

April 24th, 1915

The Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire began with the arrest and deportation of hundreds of prominent Armenians in Constantinople.

April 24th, 1914

The Franck–Hertz experiment, the first electrical measurement to clearly demonstrate quantum mechanics, was presented to the German Physical Society.

April 24th, 1913

The Woolworth Building in New York City officially opened; at the time, it was the tallest building in the world, with a height of 792 ft (241 m).

April 24th, 1904

Realizing that the Russification of Lithuania was not working, the Russian Empire lifted the 40-year-old ban on publications written in Lithuanian language using the Latin alphabet.

April 24th, 1866

German composer Max Bruch conducted the premiere of his first violin concerto, which later became his most famous work.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on April 24th

Born on April 24th, 1906

39

William Joyce

British fascist and propaganda broadcaster (1906-1946)

*April 24th, 1906, Brooklyn †January 3rd, 1946, HM Prison Wandsworth

76

Meyer Fortes

South African anthropologist

*April 24th, 1906, Britstown †January 27th, 1983, Cambridge

96

Hermann Kohlhase

German politician (1906-2002)

*April 24th, 1906, Bielefeld †December 3rd, 2002, Düsseldorf

94

Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia

Russian princess

*April 24th, 1906, Pavlovsk †January 11th, 2001, New York City

Same Day
Who's birthday is on April 24th?

44

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

30

Robin Tabeling

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1994, Amstelveen

31

Ashe

American singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1993, San Jose

77

Michael Parks

American actor (1940–2017)

*April 24th, 1940, Corona †May 9th, 2017, Los Angeles

20

Rupert Cambridge, Viscount Trematon

British viscount

*April 24th, 1907, Claremont †April 15th, 1928, Belleville

96

Max Himmelheber

German inventor and aviator

*April 24th, 1904, Karlsruhe †December 17th, 2000, Baiersbronn

41

Jenny Adler

German biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Suhl

82

Barbra Streisand

American singer and actress (born 1942)

*April 24th, 1942, Brooklyn

92

Willem de Kooning

Dutch painter (1904–1997)

*April 24th, 1904, Rotterdam †March 19th, 1997, East Hampton

87

Fred Delmare

German actor

*April 24th, 1922, Hüttensteinach †May 1st, 2009, Leipzig

36

Aprilia Yuswandari

Indonesian badminton player

*April 24th, 1988, Bantul

83

Karl Schiller

German scientist and politician (1911-1994)

*April 24th, 1911, Wrocław †December 26th, 1994, Hamburg

45

Philippe Bourret

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1979, Montreal

29

Ludmilla

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Duque de Caxias

26

Chen Xiaoxin

Chinese badminton player

*April 24th, 1998, Nanning

38

Sabine Devooght

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1986, Bruges

60

Djimon Hounsou

Beninese-American actor

*April 24th, 1964, Cotonou

90

Shirley MacLaine

American actress

*April 24th, 1934, Richmond

50

Eric Kripke

American screenwriter, television director, television producer

*April 24th, 1974, Toledo

56

Aidan Gillen

Irish actor

*April 24th, 1968, Dublin

Same year
Born in 1906

92

Joan Hickson

British actress

*August 5th, 1906, Kingsthorpe †October 17th, 1998, Wivenhoe

75

Friedrich Karl Kaul

German screenwriter

*February 21st, 1906, Poznań †April 16th, 1981, East Berlin

78

Gian Töndury

(1906-1985)

*March 17th, 1906, Samedan †March 15th, 1985, Zürich

73

Hans von Aulock

German private banker, coin collector and numismatist

*November 27th, 1906, Oława †November 23rd, 1980, Ankara

67

Bernhard Rösler

German entrepreneur

*June 9th, 1906, Essen †December 2nd, 1973, Düsseldorf

75

Leonid Brezhnev

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1906–1982)

*December 19th, 1906, Kamyanske †November 10th, 1982, Zareche

53

Jacques Becker

French screenwriter and film director (1906-1960)

*September 15th, 1906, 1st arrondissement of Paris †February 21st, 1960, 16th arrondissement of Paris

98

Hans Bethe

German-American nuclear physicist

*July 2nd, 1906, Strasbourg †March 6th, 2005, Ithaca

69

Hannah Arendt

German-American political theorist and philosopher (1906–1975)

*October 14th, 1906, Lindener Marktplatz 2, Hannover †December 4th, 1975, Upper West Side

58

Diana Wynyard

English actress (1906-1964)

*January 16th, 1906, London †May 13th, 1964, London

95

Léopold Sédar Senghor

First president of Senegal, poet, and cultural theorist (1906–2001)

*October 9th, 1906, Joal-Fadiouth †December 20th, 2001, Verson

71

Kurt Gödel

Austrian-American logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics (1906-1978)

*April 28th, 1906, Brno †January 14th, 1978, Princeton

68

Josephine Baker

American-born French dancer, singer and actress (1906–1975)

*June 3rd, 1906, St. Louis †April 12th, 1975, Paris

100

Bruce Bennett

American actor (1906–2007)

*May 19th, 1906, Tacoma †February 24th, 2007, Los Angeles

30

Matthias Auckenthaler

Austrian mountaineer

*January 27th, 1906, Mutters †June 21st, 1936, Leutasch

79

Hermione Baddeley

British character actress of theatre, film and television (1906-1986)

*November 13th, 1906, Broseley †August 19th, 1986, Los Angeles

91

Henny Youngman

American comedian (1906-1998)

*March 16th, 1906, Liverpool †February 24th, 1998, Manhattan

61

Puyi

Last Emperor of Qing dynasty and Manchukuo (1906–1967)

*February 7th, 1906, Prince Chun Mansion †October 17th, 1967, Peking Union Medical College Hospital

83

Alberto Lleras Camargo

Colombian journalist and politician (1906-1990)

*July 3rd, 1906, Bogotá †January 4th, 1990, Bogotá

81

Hans Ils

German politician (1906-1988)

*May 12th, 1906, Weißenhorn †March 25th, 1988, Freiburg im Breisgau

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1906 is a normal year and no leap year.

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