April 24th, 1968

Born on April 24th, 1968

Age in days, weeks and months
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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, 1968

55

Aidan Gillen

Irish actor

*April 24th, 1968, Dublin

55

Hashim Thaçi

Kosovo politician

*April 24th, 1968, Skenderaj

55

Oliverio Rincón

Road bicycle racer

*April 24th, 1968, Duitama

55

Durreen Shahnaz

Bangladeshi-American businesswoman

*April 24th, 1968, Dhaka

55

Yuji Nagata

Japanese professional wrestler

*April 24th, 1968, Narutō

55

Veit Helmer

German film director and producer

*April 24th, 1968, Hanover

55

Roxanna Panufnik

British composer

*April 24th, 1968, London

55

Rolf Stahlhofen

German songwriter

*April 24th, 1968, Nabburg

55

Markus Agosti

German musician

*April 24th, 1968, Langenberg (Rhineland)

55

Todd Jones

American baseball player

*April 24th, 1968, Marietta

24

Miguel Ángel Gómez Campuzano

Spanish sprinter (1968-1993)

*April 24th, 1968, Mairena del Alcor †April 6th, 1993, Aroche

55

Stacy Haiduk

American actress

*April 24th, 1968, Grand Rapids

55

Christian Colombo

Association football player

*April 24th, 1968, Lugano

55

Erkki Lill

Estonian curler and coach

*April 24th, 1968, Tallinn

55

Mark Vanderloo

Dutch model

*April 24th, 1968, Waddinxveen

55

Olie Sundström

Swedish ice hockey player

*April 24th, 1968, Änge

55

David Luckes

British field hockey player

*April 24th, 1968, Newport

55

Anjo Yllana

Filipino actor

*April 24th, 1968, Parañaque

55

Syed Abdul Aleem

Politician

*April 24th, 1968, Dera Ghazi Khan

55

Francisco Cassiani

Colombian footballer (born 1968)

*April 24th, 1968, Arboletes

55

Joseph di Pasquale

Italian architect

*April 24th, 1968, Como

55

Frans Ludeke

South African rugby union coach

*April 24th, 1968, Polokwane

52

Espantito

Mexican professional wrestler (1968-2020)

*April 24th, 1968, Torreón †October 12th, 2020

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

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

59

Djimon Hounsou

Beninese-American actor

*April 24th, 1964, Cotonou

49

Eric Kripke

American screenwriter, television director, television producer

*April 24th, 1974, Toledo

40

Jenny Adler

German biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Suhl

49

Derek Luke

American actor

*April 24th, 1974, Jersey City

44

Philippe Bourret

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1979, Montreal

77

Michael Parks

American actor (1940–2017)

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

35

Aprilia Yuswandari

Indonesian badminton player

*April 24th, 1988, Bantul

37

Sabine Devooght

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1986, Bruges

50

Sachin Tendulkar

Indian cricketer

*April 24th, 1973, Mumbai

28

Ludmilla

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Duque de Caxias

40

Ivan Joller

Swiss biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Stans

25

Chen Xiaoxin

Chinese badminton player

*April 24th, 1998, Nanning

59

Elena Rybkina

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1964, Moscow

27

Oda Maria Hove Bogstad

Norwegian association football player

*April 24th, 1996, Moi

28

GJan

Lithuanian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Vilnius

64

Alberto Carrasquilla Barrera

Colombian politician and economist

*April 24th, 1959, Bogotá

81

Barbra Streisand

American singer and actress (born 1942)

*April 24th, 1942, Brooklyn

Same year
Born in 1968

55

Casper Van Dien

American actor

*December 18th, 1968, Milton

55

Sidse Babett Knudsen

Danish actress

*November 22nd, 1968, Copenhagen

55

Peter Runggaldier

Italian alpine skier

*December 29th, 1968, Brixen

55

Chris Hunt

English badminton player

*December 1st, 1968, Bolton

55

Massi Furlan

Italian-American actor and film producer

*September 29th, 1968, Treviso

56

Minarti Timur

Indonesian badminton player, coach

*March 24th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Alan Budikusuma

Badminton player

*March 29th, 1968, Surabaya

56

Céline Dion

Canadian singer (born 1968)

*March 30th, 1968, Charlemagne

56

Rexy Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 9th, 1968, Ternate Island

55

Hugh Jackman

Australian actor (born 1968)

*October 12th, 1968, Sydney

56

Petra Schubert

Badminton player

*January 31st, 1968, Finsterwalde

55

Darren Le Tissier

Badminton player

*May 13th, 1968, Bailiwick of Guernsey

56

Árni Þór Hallgrímsson

Badminton player

*March 10th, 1968, Akranes

55

Marine Le Pen

French politician (born 1968)

*August 5th, 1968, Neuilly-sur-Seine

56

Monica Mæland

Norwegian lawyer and politician

*February 6th, 1968, Bergen

55

Gillian Anderson

American-British actress (born 1968)

*August 9th, 1968, Chicago

55

Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović

Croatian politician and diplomat

*April 29th, 1968, Rijeka

55

Larry Sanger

American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder of Citizendium and other projects

*July 16th, 1968, Bellevue

55

Ralph Brinkhaus

German politician

*June 15th, 1968, Wiedenbrück

55

Kylie Minogue

Australian singer and actress (born 1968)

*May 28th, 1968, Melbourne

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Born on April 24th, 1968
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Leap year

Yes: 1968 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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