April 24th, 1960

Born on April 24th, 1960

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 23,000 days old!

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... in seconds, minutes and hours

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, 1960

64

Friðrik Karlsson

Music composer and musician

*April 24th, 1960, Reykjavík

64

Kōji Matsui

Politician from Japan

*April 24th, 1960, Kyoto

64

Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa

Bahraini politician

*April 24th, 1960, Manama

64

Won Mi-kyung

South Korean actress (born 1960)

*April 24th, 1960, Chuncheon

64

Pius Fidelis Pinto

Indian writer and priest

*April 24th, 1960, Mangaluru

64

Raúl Alejandro Padilla Orozco

Mexican politician

*April 24th, 1960, Jalisco

64

Genevieve Lemon

Australian actress

*April 24th, 1960, Sydney

64

Charlie Coiner

American football coach

*April 24th, 1960, Waynesboro

64

Anders Palmér

Swedish footballer

*April 24th, 1960, Malmö

64

Darren Veitch

Canadian ice hockey player

*April 24th, 1960, Saskatoon

64

Masami Kikuchi

Japanese voice actor

*April 24th, 1960, Chino

64

Robert Pape

American political scientist

*April 24th, 1960, Erie

64

Jochen Mannhart

German physicist

*April 24th, 1960, Metzingen

64

Elina Kahla

Finnish academic

*April 24th, 1960, Espoo

64

Javier Cabanas

Spanish handball player

*April 24th, 1960, Burgos

64

Nick Gregory

American television meteorologist

*April 24th, 1960, Chicago

64

Luca Birigozzi

Italian footballer

*April 24th, 1960, Milan

64

Sérgio Petecão

Brazilian politician

*April 24th, 1960, Rio Branco

64

Edward James Gage

American actor

*April 24th, 1960, Los Angeles

Same Day
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

65

Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera

Colombian politician and economist

*April 24th, 1959, Bogotá

31

Ashe

American singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1993, San Jose

60

Djimon Hounsou

Beninese-American actor

*April 24th, 1964, Cotonou

77

Michael Parks

American actor (1940–2017)

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

56

Aidan Gillen

Irish actor

*April 24th, 1968, Dublin

65

Peter Jahr

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

*April 24th, 1959, Burgstädt

41

Jenny Adler

German biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Suhl

63

José Touré

French footballer

*April 24th, 1961, Nancy

45

Philippe Bourret

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1979, Montreal

62

Clemens Binninger

German politician

*April 24th, 1962, Wutach

50

Eric Kripke

American screenwriter, television director, television producer

*April 24th, 1974, Toledo

50

Derek Luke

American actor

*April 24th, 1974, Jersey City

36

Aprilia Yuswandari

Indonesian badminton player

*April 24th, 1988, Bantul

38

Sabine Devooght

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1986, Bruges

29

Ludmilla

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Duque de Caxias

82

Barbra Streisand

American singer and actress (born 1942)

*April 24th, 1942, Brooklyn

26

Chen Xiaoxin

Chinese badminton player

*April 24th, 1998, Nanning

60

Elena Rybkina

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1964, Moscow

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Born in 1960

63

Vince Clarke

English synth-pop musician and songwriter

*July 3rd, 1960, South Woodford tube station

63

Sydney Youngblood

American/German singer

*December 2nd, 1960, San Antonio

63

Åse Michaelsen

Norwegian politician

*June 4th, 1960, Mandal Municipality

63

Sally Yates

American lawyer, 36th United States Deputy Attorney General

*August 20th, 1960, Atlanta

64

Naruhito

Emperor of Japan since 2019

*February 23rd, 1960, Hospital of the Imperial Household

64

Lene Kaaberbøl

Danish writer

*March 24th, 1960, Copenhagen

63

David Duchovny

American actor and writer

*August 7th, 1960, New York City

64

Pierre Littbarski

German association football player and manager

*April 16th, 1960, West Berlin

32

Jón Páll Sigmarsson

Icelandic strongman, powerlifter and bodybuilder

*April 28th, 1960, Hafnarfjörður †January 16th, 1993, Reykjavík

60

Diego Maradona

Argentine football player and manager (1960–2020)

*October 30th, 1960, Lanús †November 25th, 2020, Dique Luján

63

Christopher Barker

Swiss actor

*May 2nd, 1960, Rome

63

Friederike Seyfried

German archaeologist and egyptologist

*November 19th, 1960, Mosbach

63

John Leguizamo

American actor, comedian, producer, and writer (born 1960)

*July 22nd, 1960, Bogotá

63

Jane Lynch

American actress

*July 14th, 1960, Evergreen Park

63

Susanne Zimmer

Danish politician

*June 9th, 1960, Brønderslev

64

Ivanna Lie

Indonesian badminton player

*March 7th, 1960, Bandung City

63

Bobby Ertanto

Badminton player

*August 2nd, 1960, Surabaya

64

Misbun Sidek

Badminton player

*February 17th, 1960, Banting

63

Colin Firth

English actor and producer

*September 10th, 1960, Grayshott

63

Denyse Julien

Badminton player

*July 22nd, 1960, Rouyn-Noranda

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Leap year

Yes: 1960 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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