April 24th, 2016

Born on April 24th, 2016

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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 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, 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 (pictured) conducted the premiere of his first violin concerto.

April 24th, 1837

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

Public holidays on April 24th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day, Fashion Revolution Day, and its related observances) which are celebrated on April 24th.

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Yes: 2016 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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