April 24th, 1942

Born on April 24th, 1942

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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, 1942

82

Barbra Streisand

American singer and actress (born 1942)

*April 24th, 1942, Brooklyn

82

George William Vella

Maltese politician

*April 24th, 1942, Żejtun

82

Ann Rest

American politician

*April 24th, 1942, Norfolk

82

Stanley Osher

American mathematician

*April 24th, 1942, Brooklyn

82

Silvia Federici

Italian American scholar, teacher, and feminist activist

*April 24th, 1942, Parma

82

Richard M. Daley

American politician

*April 24th, 1942, Chicago

39

Werner Teske

Stasi colonel, executed for treason

*April 24th, 1942, Berlin †June 26th, 1981, Leipzig

82

Rege Ludwig

Polo player

*April 24th, 1942, Pennsylvania

82

Douglas J. Futuyma

American biologist

*April 24th, 1942, New York City

82

Margaret Clunies Ross

Australian scholar of Old Norse literature

*April 24th, 1942, Adelaide

82

Isao Ono

Japanese biathlete

*April 24th, 1942, Hokkaido

82

Barry Rowan

Footballer (born 1942)

*April 24th, 1942, Willesden

82

Peter Deimböck

Cyclist

*April 24th, 1942, Vienna

82

Ed Bianchi

American television director

*April 24th, 1942, New Jersey

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Who's birthday is on April 24th?

77

Michael Parks

American actor (1940–2017)

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

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

81

Ruud Stokvis

Dutch rower

*April 24th, 1943, Amsterdam

77

Sue Grafton

American writer (1940-2017)

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

69

Richard Holbrooke

American diplomat (1941-2010)

*April 24th, 1941, New York City †December 13th, 2010, Washington, D.C.

90

Shirley MacLaine

American actress

*April 24th, 1934, Richmond

41

Jenny Adler

German biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Suhl

60

Djimon Hounsou

Beninese-American actor

*April 24th, 1964, Cotonou

77

Josep Borrell

Spanish politician (born 1947)

*April 24th, 1947, La Pobla de Segur

45

Philippe Bourret

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1979, Montreal

36

Aprilia Yuswandari

Indonesian badminton player

*April 24th, 1988, Bantul

78

Ingrid Munneke-Dusseldorp

Dutch rower

*April 24th, 1946, Amsterdam

38

Sabine Devooght

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1986, Bruges

29

Ludmilla

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Duque de Caxias

56

Aidan Gillen

Irish actor

*April 24th, 1968, Dublin

26

Chen Xiaoxin

Chinese badminton player

*April 24th, 1998, Nanning

50

Eric Kripke

American screenwriter, television director, television producer

*April 24th, 1974, Toledo

74

Dick Rivers

French actor and singer

*April 24th, 1945, Nice †April 24th, 2019, Neuilly-sur-Seine

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Born in 1942

81

Joe Biden

President of the United States since 2021

*November 20th, 1942, Scranton

77

Terry Jones

Welsh actor, comedian, director, historian and writer (1942–2020)

*February 1st, 1942, Colwyn Bay †January 21st, 2020, North London

81

Dietrich Hollinderbäumer

German-Swedish actor

*August 16th, 1942, Essen

76

Stephen Hawking

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist and author (1942–2018)

*January 8th, 1942, Oxford †March 14th, 2018, Cambridge

81

Katherine Justice

American actress

*October 28th, 1942, Sacramento

81

Wolfgang Schäuble

German politician and statesman (1942–2023)

*September 18th, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau †December 26th, 2023, Offenburg

81

Richard Stoltzman

American musician

*July 12th, 1942, Omaha

81

Amitabh Bachchan

Indian film actor (born 1942)

*October 11th, 1942, Prayagraj

82

John Cale

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer

*March 9th, 1942, Garnant

81

Paul McCartney

English musician and member of the Beatles (born 1942)

*June 18th, 1942, Liverpool

74

Daliah Lavi

Israeli actress, singer and model (1942-2017)

*October 12th, 1942, Shavei Tzion †May 3rd, 2017, Asheville

74

Muhammad Ali

American boxer, philanthropist, and activist (1942–2016)

*January 17th, 1942, Louisville †June 3rd, 2016, Scottsdale

82

Per A. Anonsen

Norwegian actor, film editor, screenwriter and film producer

*January 8th, 1942, Oslo

81

Søren Steen

Danish actor

*August 22nd, 1942, Denmark

69

Muammar Gaddafi

Libyan dictator, politician and political theorist (1942–2011)

*June 7th, 1942, Qasr Abu Hadi †October 20th, 2011, Sirte

82

Michel Mayor

Swiss astrophysicist & Nobel laureate of Physics

*January 12th, 1942, Lausanne

76

Aretha Franklin

American singer, songwriter, and pianist (1942–2018)

*March 25th, 1942, Memphis †August 16th, 2018, Detroit

82

Jun'ichirō Koizumi

Prime Minister of Japan from 2001 to 2006

*January 8th, 1942, Yokosuka

81

Raman Ghosh

Badminton player

*August 15th, 1942, Bareilly

81

Hu Jintao

General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party from 2002 to 2012

*December 21st, 1942, Jiangyan District

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1942 is a normal year and no leap year.

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