April 24th, 1944

Born on April 24th, 1944

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What happened on April 24th, 1944?

April 24th, 1944

World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece.

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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.

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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, 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.

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

Born on April 24th, 1944

80

Christine Ockrent

Belgian journalist

*April 24th, 1944, Brussels metropolitan area

80

Zianon Pazniak

Belarusian politician

*April 24th, 1944, Subotniki

80

Thumma Bala

Indian Roman Catholic priest, archbishop of Hyderabad

*April 24th, 1944, Narmetta

80

Bill Singer

American baseball player

*April 24th, 1944, Los Angeles

80

Jim Geringer

American politician

*April 24th, 1944, Wheatland

80

Tony Visconti

American record producer, musician and singer

*April 24th, 1944, New York City

71

Roble Olhaye

Djibouti diplomat

*April 24th, 1944, Djibouti †July 21st, 2015, New York City

71

Frank Hörnigk

German university professor and literary scholar

*April 24th, 1944, Frankfurt (Oder) †January 30th, 2016

80

Andrzej Dereziński

Polish sportsperson

*April 24th, 1944, Poronin

80

Agnes Grossmann

Austrian conductor

*April 24th, 1944, Vienna

80

Eliane Larus

French painter

*April 24th, 1944, Deux-Sèvres

80

Andy Vine

Musician

*April 24th, 1944, Swansea

68

Gustl Wilke

German handball player

*April 24th, 1944, Wehringhausen †January 3rd, 2013

80

Sean J. Harrington

Canadian judge

*April 24th, 1944, Montreal

80

Chip Oliver

Former American football linebacker

*April 24th, 1944, Winona

80

John Rowser

American football player

*April 24th, 1944, Birmingham

80

Folke Bengtsson

Swedish ice hockey player

*April 24th, 1944, Leksand

80

Chris Simpkin

English footballer (born 1944)

*April 24th, 1944, Kingston upon Hull

80

Jean-Paul Denanot

French politician

*April 24th, 1944, Boisseuil

80

Petr Hejma

Czech ice hockey player and coach

*April 24th, 1944, Prague

80

Christian Pätzold

German film actor and stage actor

*April 24th, 1944, Tübingen

78

Vladimir Petercă

Romanian theologian

*April 24th, 1944, Tețcani †September 23rd, 2022, Valea Lupului

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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

82

Barbra Streisand

American singer and actress (born 1942)

*April 24th, 1942, Brooklyn

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

74

Dick Rivers

French actor and singer

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

78

Ingrid Munneke-Dusseldorp

Dutch rower

*April 24th, 1946, Amsterdam

77

Josep Borrell

Spanish politician (born 1947)

*April 24th, 1947, La Pobla de Segur

41

Jenny Adler

German biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Suhl

60

Djimon Hounsou

Beninese-American actor

*April 24th, 1964, Cotonou

90

Shirley MacLaine

American actress

*April 24th, 1934, Richmond

77

Sue Grafton

American writer (1940-2017)

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

45

Philippe Bourret

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1979, Montreal

36

Aprilia Yuswandari

Indonesian badminton player

*April 24th, 1988, Bantul

56

Aidan Gillen

Irish actor

*April 24th, 1968, Dublin

38

Sabine Devooght

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1986, Bruges

29

Ludmilla

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Duque de Caxias

50

Eric Kripke

American screenwriter, television director, television producer

*April 24th, 1974, Toledo

26

Chen Xiaoxin

Chinese badminton player

*April 24th, 1998, Nanning

Same year
Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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