April 24th, 1933

Born on April 24th, 1933

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on April 24th, 1933?

April 24th, 1933

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany

April 24th, 1933

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_Germany

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, 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.

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

Born on April 24th, 1933

82

Helmuth Lohner

Austrian actor and theatre director

*April 24th, 1933, Vienna †June 23rd, 2015, Vienna

86

Patricia Bosworth

American journalist and actor (1933-2020)

*April 24th, 1933, Oakland †April 2nd, 2020, Manhattan

68

Claire Davenport

Actress (1933-2002)

*April 24th, 1933, Sale †March 4th, 2002

90

Alan Eagleson

Former executive director of the NHL Players Association

*April 24th, 1933, St. Catharines

73

Raúl Velasco

Mexican television presenter

*April 24th, 1933, Celaya †November 26th, 2006, Mexico City

65

Billy Garrett

Racecar driver

*April 24th, 1933, Princeton †February 15th, 1999, Glendale

73

Francesco Valdambrini

Italian composer and music educator

*April 24th, 1933, Turin †February 4th, 2007, Trento

90

Liam Hyland

Irish politician

*April 24th, 1933, Port Laoise

90

Carlos del Coso

Spanish field hockey player

*April 24th, 1933, Madrid

74

Freddie Scott

American singer

*April 24th, 1933, Providence †June 4th, 2007, Jamaica

82

David M. Raup

American paleontologist (1933-2015)

*April 24th, 1933, Boston †July 9th, 2015, Sturgeon Bay

82

Rezo Cheishvili

Soviet and Georgian writer and screenwriter (1933-2015)

*April 24th, 1933, Kutaisi †September 11th, 2015, Kutaisi

82

Noboru Karashima

Japanese historian

*April 24th, 1933, Keijō †November 26th, 2015, Tokyo

83

Leonard H. Perroots

Director of the Defense Intelligence agency

*April 24th, 1933, Morgantown †January 29th, 2017, Lake Ridge

90

Andriy Vasylyshyn

Ukrainian militsiya general (1933-2023)

*April 24th, 1933, Starokostiantyniv Raion †October 12th, 2023

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

77

Michael Parks

American actor (1940–2017)

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

89

Shirley MacLaine

American actress

*April 24th, 1934, Richmond

43

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

29

Robin Tabeling

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1994, Amstelveen

30

Ashe

American singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1993, San Jose

81

Barbra Streisand

American singer and actress (born 1942)

*April 24th, 1942, Brooklyn

94

André Darrigade

Racing cyclist

*April 24th, 1929, Narrosse

40

Jenny Adler

German biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Suhl

93

José Sarney

President of Brazil from 1985 to 1990

*April 24th, 1930, Pinheiro

87

Fred Delmare

German actor

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

35

Aprilia Yuswandari

Indonesian badminton player

*April 24th, 1988, Bantul

59

Djimon Hounsou

Beninese-American actor

*April 24th, 1964, Cotonou

44

Philippe Bourret

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1979, Montreal

28

Ludmilla

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Duque de Caxias

37

Sabine Devooght

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1986, Bruges

25

Chen Xiaoxin

Chinese badminton player

*April 24th, 1998, Nanning

77

Sue Grafton

American writer (1940-2017)

*April 24th, 1940, Louisville †December 28th, 2017, Santa Barbara

55

Aidan Gillen

Irish actor

*April 24th, 1968, Dublin

49

Eric Kripke

American screenwriter, television director, television producer

*April 24th, 1974, Toledo

49

Derek Luke

American actor

*April 24th, 1974, Jersey City

Same year
Born in 1933

70

Stan Brakhage

American filmmaker and writer (1933–2003)

*January 14th, 1933, Kansas City †March 9th, 2003, Victoria

84

Richard Schickel

American film scholar

*February 10th, 1933, Milwaukee †February 18th, 2017, Los Angeles

83

Giuliano Sarti

Italian footballer (1933-2017)

*October 2nd, 1933, Castello d'Argile †June 5th, 2017, Rome

82

Charlie Hodge

Canadian ice hockey player

*July 28th, 1933, Lachine †April 16th, 2016, Vancouver

88

Jean-Paul Belmondo

French actor (1933–2021)

*April 9th, 1933, Neuilly-sur-Seine †September 6th, 2021, 7th arrondissement of Paris

86

Kadir Mısıroğlu

Turkish lawyer and writer

*January 24th, 1933, Akçaabat †May 5th, 2019, Istanbul

90

David McCallum

Scottish actor (1933-2023)

*September 19th, 1933, Maryhill †September 25th, 2023, NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital

91

Michael Caine

English actor (born 1933)

*March 14th, 1933, Rotherhithe

81

Joan Rivers

American comedian, actress, and television host (1933–2014)

*June 8th, 1933, Brooklyn †September 4th, 2014, Mount Sinai Hospital

84

Mieczysław Kalenik

Polish actor

*January 1st, 1933, Międzyrzec Podlaski †June 16th, 2017, Międzyrzec Podlaski

83

Elaine Fantham

British classical philologist

*May 25th, 1933, Liverpool †July 11th, 2016, Toronto

90

Joan Collins

English actress, author and columnist

*May 23rd, 1933, London

83

Beppo Mauhart

Austrian manager (1933-2017)

*September 14th, 1933, Enns †May 7th, 2017, Vienna

90

Akihito

Emperor of Japan from 1989 to 2019

*December 23rd, 1933, Tokyo Imperial Palace

84

Peter Ehlers

German footballer and coach (1933-2017)

*January 22nd, 1933, Kiel †June 5th, 2017

83

Gene Wilder

American actor (1933–2016)

*June 11th, 1933, Milwaukee †August 29th, 2016, Stamford

34

Jayne Mansfield

American actress and Playmate

*April 19th, 1933, Bryn Mawr †June 29th, 1967, Slidell

82

Oliver Sacks

British neurologist and writer (1933–2015)

*July 9th, 1933, Willesden †August 30th, 2015, Greenwich Village

79

Heinrich Rohrer

Swiss physicist (1933-2013)

*June 6th, 1933, Buchs †May 16th, 2013, Wollerau

90

Carol Burnett

American actress, comedian and singer

*April 26th, 1933, San Antonio

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1933 is a normal year and no leap year.

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