April 24th, 1955

Born on April 24th, 1955

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What happened on April 24th, 1955?

April 24th, 1955

The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bandung_Conference

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, 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, 1955

69

Michael O'Keefe

American actor

*April 24th, 1955, Mount Vernon

69

John de Mol

Dutch media tycoon

*April 24th, 1955, The Hague

69

Eamon Gilmore

Irish politician

*April 24th, 1955, Caltra

69

Marion Caspers-Merk

German politician

*April 24th, 1955, Mannheim

69

Ernie Grunfeld

American basketball player and executive

*April 24th, 1955, Satu Mare

69

Ilana Eliya

Israeli singer

*April 24th, 1955, Jerusalem

69

Jack Kingston

American politician

*April 24th, 1955, Bryan

69

Coke La Rock

Rapper

*April 24th, 1955, Jamaica

69

Claude Arnaud

French screenwriter, essayist and biographer

*April 24th, 1955, Paris

69

Chang Kee Jung

American physicist

*April 24th, 1955, Daegu

69

Margaret Moran

British politician (born 1955)

*April 24th, 1955, Bethnal Green

69

Cristian Dumitrescu

Romanian politician

*April 24th, 1955, Bucharest

69

Lypsinka

American drag artist

*April 24th, 1955, Hazlehurst

69

Volker Mehrmann

German mathematician

*April 24th, 1955, Detmold

69

Jacky Redgate

Australian artist (born 1955)

*April 24th, 1955, London

69

Aïchatou Boulama Kané

Female politician from Niger

*April 24th, 1955, Keita

69

Ron Stollings

American politician

*April 24th, 1955, Madison

69

Kyūsaku Shimada

Japanese actor

*April 24th, 1955, Yokohama

69

Gehan Mendis

Opening batsman for Sussex County Cricket Club (born 1955)

*April 24th, 1955, Colombo

69

Cleveland Franklin

American football player

*April 24th, 1955, Brenham

69

Anthony Kellman

Barbadian author and musician

*April 24th, 1955, Barbados

69

Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi

Speaker of the House of Representatives of Somaliland

*April 24th, 1955, Hargeisa

69

Francisco Javier Saucedo

Mexican politician

*April 24th, 1955, Guadalajara

61

Esther Orjuela

Venezuela actress (1955-2017)

*April 24th, 1955, Barquisimeto †January 6th, 2017, Caracas

69

Gary Marocchi

Australian soccer player

*April 24th, 1955, Perth

69

Bill Osborne

New Zealand rugby union player

*April 24th, 1955, Whanganui

69

Avraham Luzon

Association football player

*April 24th, 1955, Pardesiya

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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

60

Djimon Hounsou

Beninese-American actor

*April 24th, 1964, Cotonou

41

Jenny Adler

German biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Suhl

65

Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera

Colombian politician and economist

*April 24th, 1959, Bogotá

56

Aidan Gillen

Irish actor

*April 24th, 1968, Dublin

45

Philippe Bourret

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1979, Montreal

36

Aprilia Yuswandari

Indonesian badminton player

*April 24th, 1988, Bantul

50

Eric Kripke

American screenwriter, television director, television producer

*April 24th, 1974, Toledo

50

Derek Luke

American actor

*April 24th, 1974, Jersey City

38

Sabine Devooght

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1986, Bruges

67

Bamir Topi

Albanian diplomat and politician

*April 24th, 1957, Tirana

29

Ludmilla

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Duque de Caxias

26

Chen Xiaoxin

Chinese badminton player

*April 24th, 1998, Nanning

72

Jean-Paul Gaultier

Fashion designer

*April 24th, 1952, Bagneux

41

Ivan Joller

Swiss biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Stans

67

David Whittaker

British video game composer

*April 24th, 1957, Bury

65

Peter Jahr

German politician and Member of the Saxonian Landtag, the German Bundestag and the European Parliament

*April 24th, 1959, Burgstädt

Same year
Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

68

Whoopi Goldberg

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

*November 13th, 1955, New York City

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No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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