April 24th, 1922

Born on April 24th, 1922

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on April 24th, 1922?

April 24th, 1922

The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Wireless_Chain

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.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Wireless_Chain

What else 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, 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.

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

Born on April 24th, 1922

87

Fred Delmare

German actor

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

87

Susanna Agnelli

Italian politician, businesswoman and writer (1922-2009)

*April 24th, 1922, Turin †May 15th, 2009, Rome

83

J. D. Cannon

American actor (1922-2005)

*April 24th, 1922, Idaho †May 20th, 2005, Hudson

91

Marc-Adélard Tremblay

Canadian anthropologist (1922-2014)

*April 24th, 1922, Les Éboulements †March 20th, 2014, Quebec City

78

Blue Demon

Mexican professional wrestler and actor (1922-2000)

*April 24th, 1922, García Municipality †December 16th, 2000, Mexico City

94

Antun Bogetić

Roman Catholic Bishop

*April 24th, 1922, Premantura †April 19th, 2017, Pula

70

Della Butcher

British art dealer

*April 24th, 1922, London †January 11th, 1993

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

44

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

77

Michael Parks

American actor (1940–2017)

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

30

Robin Tabeling

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1994, Amstelveen

31

Ashe

American singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1993, San Jose

82

Barbra Streisand

American singer and actress (born 1942)

*April 24th, 1942, Brooklyn

96

Henri Ecochard

French military officer (1923-2020)

*April 24th, 1923, Cholet †April 3rd, 2020, Levallois-Perret

90

Shirley MacLaine

American actress

*April 24th, 1934, Richmond

41

Jenny Adler

German biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Suhl

95

André Darrigade

Racing cyclist

*April 24th, 1929, Narrosse

63

Lucy Griffiths

British actress (1919–1982)

*April 24th, 1919, Birley †September 29th, 1982, London

36

Aprilia Yuswandari

Indonesian badminton player

*April 24th, 1988, Bantul

45

Philippe Bourret

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1979, Montreal

29

Ludmilla

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Duque de Caxias

60

Djimon Hounsou

Beninese-American actor

*April 24th, 1964, Cotonou

26

Chen Xiaoxin

Chinese badminton player

*April 24th, 1998, Nanning

38

Sabine Devooght

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1986, Bruges

50

Eric Kripke

American screenwriter, television director, television producer

*April 24th, 1974, Toledo

56

Aidan Gillen

Irish actor

*April 24th, 1968, Dublin

50

Derek Luke

American actor

*April 24th, 1974, Jersey City

41

Ivan Joller

Swiss biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Stans

Same year
Born in 1922

93

Trude Dothan

Austrian-Israeli archaeologist

*November 30th, 1922, Vienna †January 28th, 2016, Jerusalem

75

Poul Bundgaard

Danish actor and opera singer

*October 27th, 1922, Hellerup †June 3rd, 1998, Gentofte

93

Christopher Lee

English actor and singer (1922–2015)

*May 27th, 1922, Belgravia †June 7th, 2015, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital

47

Judy Garland

American actress and singer (1922–1969)

*June 10th, 1922, Grand Rapids †June 22nd, 1969, Chelsea

58

Hattie Jacques

English comedy actress of stage, radio and screen (1922-1980)

*February 7th, 1922, Sandgate †October 6th, 1980, Eardley Crescent

93

Bernhard Hassenstein

German biologist

*May 31st, 1922, Potsdam †April 16th, 2016, Freiburg im Breisgau

84

Eva Ebner

German actor, screenwriter ans assistant director

*January 14th, 1922, Gdańsk †January 31st, 2006, Berlin

88

Ilse Jahn

German biologist, historian of science and curator (1922–2010)

*February 2nd, 1922, Chemnitz †May 8th, 2010, Berlin

97

Doris Day

American actress and singer (1922–2019)

*April 3rd, 1922, Cincinnati †May 13th, 2019, Carmel Valley

98

Carl Reiner

American actor (1922–2020)

*March 20th, 1922, The Bronx †June 29th, 2020, Beverly Hills

95

Stan Lee

American comic book writer, editor, publisher, and producer (1922–2018)

*December 28th, 1922, Manhattan †November 12th, 2018, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

98

Arthur Ashkin

American physicist (1922-2020)

*September 2nd, 1922, Brooklyn †September 21st, 2020, Rumson

86

Paul Scofield

English actor (1922–2008)

*January 21st, 1922, West Sussex †March 19th, 2008, Sussex

82

Barbara Bel Geddes

American actress (1922–2005)

*October 31st, 1922, New York City †August 8th, 2005, Northeast Harbor

93

Patrick Macnee

English actor (1922–2015)

*February 6th, 1922, Paddington †June 25th, 2015, Rancho Mirage

91

Sid Caesar

American comic actor and writer

*September 8th, 1922, Yonkers †February 12th, 2014, Beverly Hills

78

Jose Gonzales-Gonzales

American actor

*December 7th, 1922, Aguilares †December 15th, 2000, Centinela Freeman Regional Medical Center, Marina Campus

93

Madeleine Sherwood

Canadian actress

*November 13th, 1922, Montreal †April 23rd, 2016, Saint-Hippolyte

85

Maila Nurmi

Finnish American actress (1922-2008)

*December 11th, 1922, Pechenga †January 10th, 2008, Los Angeles

53

Margaret Leighton

British actress (1922–1976)

*February 26th, 1922, Barnt Green †January 13th, 1976, Chichester

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on April 24th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Fashion Revolution Day, and its related observances) which are celebrated on April 24th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1922 is a normal year and no leap year.

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