April 24th, 2008

Born on April 24th, 2008

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 5,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 8 days, exactly on September 27th, 2024, people who were born on April 24th, 2008 will be 6,000 days old!

... 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, 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, 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.

April 24th, 1837

A fire broke out in Surat, India, which went on to destroy about 75% of the city.

April 24th, 1800

The Library of Congress (building pictured), the de facto national library of the United States, was established as part of an act of Congress providing for the transfer of the nation's capital from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C.

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

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

30

Robin Tabeling

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1994, Amstelveen

31

Ashe

American singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1993, San Jose

44

Julia Hummer

German actress and singer

*April 24th, 1980, Hagen

26

Chen Xiaoxin

Chinese badminton player

*April 24th, 1998, Nanning

29

Ludmilla

Brazilian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Duque de Caxias

41

Jenny Adler

German biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Suhl

36

Aprilia Yuswandari

Indonesian badminton player

*April 24th, 1988, Bantul

28

Oda Maria Hove Bogstad

Norwegian association football player

*April 24th, 1996, Moi

38

Sabine Devooght

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1986, Bruges

29

GJan

Lithuanian singer-songwriter

*April 24th, 1995, Vilnius

45

Philippe Bourret

Badminton player

*April 24th, 1979, Montreal

77

Michael Parks

American actor (1940–2017)

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

41

Ivan Joller

Swiss biathlete

*April 24th, 1983, Stans

50

Eric Kripke

American screenwriter, television director, television producer

*April 24th, 1974, Toledo

24

Filip Bilbija

German association football player

*April 24th, 2000, Berlin

50

Derek Luke

American actor

*April 24th, 1974, Jersey City

60

Djimon Hounsou

Beninese-American actor

*April 24th, 1964, Cotonou

56

Aidan Gillen

Irish actor

*April 24th, 1968, Dublin

42

Kelly Clarkson

American singer-songwriter (born 1982)

*April 24th, 1982, Fort Worth

33

Morgan Ciprès

French Olympic figure skater

*April 24th, 1991, Melun

Same year
Born in 2008

16

Francesco Camarda

Italian association football player (born 2008)

*March 10th, 2008, Milan

16

Cecilia Loffredo

Danish actress

*July 24th, 2008, Copenhagen

16

Emma Kok

Dutch singer

*March 12th, 2008, Maastricht

16

Lilly Platt

British environmentalist

*April 18th, 2008, London

16

Iain Armitage

American child actor

*July 15th, 2008, Georgia

16

Emme Muñiz‎

Daughter of Marc Anthony and Jennifer Lopez

*February 22nd, 2008, Long Island

16

Jackson Robert Scott

American child actor

*September 18th, 2008, Phoenix

16

Rayssa Leal

Brazilian skateboarder

*January 4th, 2008, Imperatriz

16

Meilee Condron

American actress

*March 17th, 2008, Connecticut

16

Helena Zengel

German actress

*June 10th, 2008, Berlin

16

Harshaali Malhotra

Indian child actress

*June 3rd, 2008, Mumbai

15

Sophia Baram

American pair skater

*November 24th, 2008, Beverly Hills

16

Veronika Zhilina

Russian figure skater

*May 15th, 2008, Arkhangelsk

16

Gavin Warren

American actor

*April 17th, 2008, Houston

15

Diego Topa

Argentinian actor

*October 11th, 2008, Caseros

16

Abby Ryder Fortson

American actress

*March 14th, 2008, Burbank

15

GUSTAVOEGATOTV

Brazilian record producer (2008-)

*December 11th, 2008, Iguatu

15

Emma Behn

Norwegian show jumper, youngest child of Princess Märtha Louise of Norway and Ari Behn

*September 29th, 2008, Lommedalen

15

Finnlay Berger

German actor

*November 30th, 2008, Berlin

15

Alia De Vercelli

Australian actress

*November 30th, 2008, Australia

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Born on April 24th, 2008
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Leap year

Yes: 2008 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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