This Day In History

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  Interesting things that have happened, and people born and died on this date 
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Births:  
 
04/24/1538 Gugliemo Gonzaga, composer 
04/24/1594 Benedikt Lechler, composer 
04/24/1620 John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography 
04/24/1660 Cornelis Dusart, painter/engraver 
04/24/1670 Christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer 
04/24/1706 Giovanni Battista Martini, composer 
04/24/1721 Johann Kirnberge, German music theroist, baptised 
04/24/1721 Johann Philipp Kirnberger, composer 
04/24/1742 Roman Hoffstetter, composer 
04/24/1743 Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom) 
04/24/1750 Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician 
04/24/1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac) 
04/24/1769 Arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington 
04/24/1773 Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director 
04/24/1791 Nikolaj A Bestoezjev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)

04/24/1804 Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy) 
04/24/1807 Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 18

04/24/1814 Vincente F L¢pez, Argentina historian (La novia del hereje) 
04/24/1815 Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers) 
04/24/1815 James Edward Harrison, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1875

04/24/1822 Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) 
04/24/1824 Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp designer 
04/24/1828 Robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 
04/24/1829 George Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881 
04/24/1836 Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist 
04/24/1837 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) 
04/24/1845 Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919) 
04/24/1849 Joseph S Galli‚ni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris) 
04/24/1851 Eduardo Acevedo D¡az, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria) 
04/24/1856 Henri POBJ P‚tain, French marshal (Verdun/Vichy regime) 
04/24/1864 George AA Alting van Geusau, dir-gen (PTT)/Dutch Min of War (1918-20

04/24/1867 Fannie Thomas, became oldest known American (113 y 273 d at death) 
04/24/1873 Theodor K”rner von Siegringen, Austrian general/president 
04/24/1874 John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial) 
04/24/1874 Willem E Roelofs, painter/cartoonist 
04/24/1875 Jeno Huszka, composer 
04/24/1877 Charles Cuvillier, composer 
04/24/1883 Jaroslav Hasek, Czech writer (Brave soldier Schweik) 
04/24/1886 R Pelgrom, oldest Dutch man (died Apr 15, 1994, 9 days short of 108)

04/24/1892 Jack Hulbert, actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack) 
04/24/1893 Robert Harron, actor (Birth of a Nation, Intolerance) 
04/24/1895 S Constantine Timoshenko, Russian marshal/people's commissioner 
04/24/1897 Benjamin Lee Whorf, linguist (or 1797) 
04/24/1897 Gyorgy Kosa, composer 
04/24/1903 Jos‚ A Primo de Rivera y Sa‚nz de Heredia, founder (Spanish Falange)

04/24/1903 Mike Michalske, NFL guard (NY Yankees, Green Bay Packers) 
04/24/1904 Friedrich Siemens, German industrialist, dies 
04/24/1904 Willem De Kooning, Netherlands, artist (North Atlantic Light) 
04/24/1905 Robert Penn Warren, 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men) 
04/24/1907 Vaclav Trojan, composer 
04/24/1909 Bernhard Grzimek, zoologist (West Germany) 
04/24/1911 Jack E Leonard, Chicago Ill, comedian (Disorderly Orderly) 
04/24/1911 Karl O Schiller, German economist/minister of Economic 
04/24/1911 Robert Joseph Kane, Ithaca NY, Pres of US Olympic Comm (1976) 
04/24/1911 Sigursveinn David Kristinsson, composer 
04/24/1914 Ruth White, actress (Up the Down Staircase) 
04/24/1916 Stanley Kauffmann, NYC, playwright (Red Handkerchief Man) 
04/24/1921 Laci Boldemann, composer 
04/24/1922 J D Cannon, Salmon Idaho, actor (McCloud, Ike, Call to Glory) 
04/24/1924 Marilyn Erskine, Rochester NY, actor (Fran-Tom Ewell Show) 
04/24/1924 Yehoshua Lakner, composer 
04/24/1927 Josy Barthel, Luxembourg, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1952) 
04/24/1928 Gustav Krivinka, composer 
04/24/1929 Ferit Tuzun, composer 
04/24/1931 Bridget Riley, British painter (op-art) 
04/24/1932 Coen[rad] Flink, Dutch actor (Pastorale 1943, Havinck, Honneponnetje

04/24/1933 Freddie Scott, US songwriter/singer (Cry to Me) 
04/24/1934 John Barbour, Toronto, TV host (Real People) 
04/24/1934 Shirley MacLaine, Richmond Va, actress/mystic (Irma la Douce) 
04/24/1935 Louis Keith, Chicago, physician (expert on multiple-births) 
04/24/1936 Jill Ireland, London, actress (Breakout, Assassination, Chino) 
04/24/1941 John Williams, Melbourne Australia, guitarist (Acad Award) 
04/24/1942 Barbra Streisand, Bkln NY, singer/actress/award winner (People) 
04/24/1943 Richard Sterban, Camden NJ, country singer (Oak Ridge Boys-Elvira) 
04/24/1944 [Bernard] St Clair Lee [Calhoun], US singer (Rock the Boat) 
04/24/1945 Doug Clifford, rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary

04/24/1945 Eugene O'Brien, composer 
04/24/1946 Bruce Stuart Saylor, composer 
04/24/1947 Glenn Cornick, rock bassist (Jethro Tull-Thick as a Brick) 
04/24/1947 Hubert Ann Kelly, US singer (Hues Corporation/Rock the boat) 
04/24/1948 Eddie James Hart, Martinez Cal, 4x100m relay runner (Olympic-gold-72

04/24/1953 Eric Bogosian, actor (Talk Radio) 
04/24/1953 John P Hiler, (Rep-R-IN, 1981-  ) 
04/24/1953 Porter Carroll Jr, drummer (Atlantic Star-Touch a 4 Leaf Clover) 
04/24/1954 Captain Sensible, [Ray Burns], UK, rock bassist (Women & Capts 1st) 
04/24/1954 Jack Blades, rocker (Damn Yankees-Coming of Age) 
04/24/1954 Vince Ferragamo, NFL/CFL quarterback (LA Rams, Montr‚al Alouettes) 
04/24/1955 Jack Kingston, (Rep-R-Georgia) 
04/24/1955 Michael O'Keefe, actor (Caddyshack, Ironweed, Slugger's Wife) 
04/24/1957 Tricia Lange, Hollywood Calif, playmate (June, 1984) 
04/24/1960 (weatherman (WNYW TV NYC) 
04/24/1960 Paula Yates, London England, Mrs Bob Geldof/rocker/writer (Blondes) 
04/24/1963 Joey Vera, heavy metal rocker (Armored Saint-Aftermath) 
04/24/1976 Shane McDermott, actor (Garrett Booth-Swan's Crossing) 
 
 
Deaths:  
 
04/24/ 709 Wilfried, bishop of York, dies at about 76 
04/24/ 729 Egbert[us], English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89 
04/24/1077 Geza I, King of Hungary (1074-7), dies 
04/24/1530 Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies 
04/24/1731 Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe), dies 
04/24/1758 Florian Wrastill, composer, dies at 41 
04/24/1776 Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84 
04/24/1776 Giuseppi Paolucci, composer, dies at 49 
04/24/1824 Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71 
04/24/1827 Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82 
04/24/1848 Francois van Campenhout, composer, dies at 69 
04/24/1850 Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70 
04/24/1855 Walenty karol Kratzer, composer, dies at 75 
04/24/1875 Jose Maria de la Purificacion Ventura, composer, dies at 58 
04/24/1891 Count Helmuth K B von Moltke, Prussian gen/field marshal, dies 
04/24/1900 George JD Campbell, Brit min of Indies (1868-74, 80-85), dies at 76 
04/24/1904 Friedrich Siemens, German industrial, dies 
04/24/1922 Richard Batka, composer, dies at 53 
04/24/1928 Ferdinand B Hummel, composer, dies at 72 
04/24/1935 Paul Klengel, composer, dies at 80 
04/24/1936 Bernard van Dieren, composer, dies at 51 
04/24/1939 John Foulds, composer, dies at 58 
04/24/1943 Gerardus H de Hare, socialist vicar, dies at 63 
04/24/1945 Anton de Come, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47 
04/24/1945 Hubert Bath, composer, dies at 61 
04/24/1948 Jazeps Vitols, composer, dies at 84 
04/24/1948 Manuel Marua Ponce, Mexican composer (Ferial), dies at 65 
04/24/1948 Rosita Marstini, actress (I Cover the Waterfront, Big Parade), dies 
04/24/1952 Hans [Hendrik A] Kramers, physicist (quantum mechanics), dies at 57 
04/24/1952 Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State, dies at 82 
04/24/1955 Alfred Polgar, Austrian writer, dies at 79 
04/24/1956 Henry Stephenson, actor (Conquest, Mr Lucky), dies at 85 
04/24/1957 Andries CD de Graeff, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1926-31), dies at 84 
04/24/1959 Jef van Hoof, composer, dies at 72 
04/24/1960 John P 'John' Musch, actor/founder (JM), dies at 84 
04/24/1961 Lee Moran, actor (Circus Clown), dies at 72 
04/24/1965 Louise Dresser, actress (State Fair, Ship Comes In, Mammy), dies at 

04/24/1967 Frank Overton, actor (12 O'Clock High), dies at 48 
04/24/1967 Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut is 1st to die in space, aboard Soyuz 1 
04/24/1968 Norman McKaye, actor (Untamed Fury, Frogman), dies 
04/24/1968 Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), dies at 45 
04/24/1974 Bud Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello), dies at 78 
04/24/1975 William Hartnell, actor (Jackpot, This Sporting Life), dies at 67 
04/24/1976 Mark Tobey, US abstract artist, dies at 85 
04/24/1979 John Carroll, actor (Hired Wife, Fiesta, Geraldine), dies at 72 
04/24/1980 Alentejo Carpentier, Cubans/French writer (Guerra del tiempo), dies 
04/24/1986 Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, (Edward abdicated for her), dies at 

04/24/1990 Joseph Leberman, entertainer, dies 
04/24/1990 Tom Rolfing, actor (He Knows You're Alone), dies 
04/24/1991 J de Graaf, ethicus/president church & peace, dies 
04/24/1993 Oliver Tambo, chairman (African National Congress), dies at 75 
 
 
Significant Events:  
 
04/24/ 858 Nicolaas I succeeds Benedict III as pope 
04/24/1288 Jews of Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder 
04/24/1311 Gen Malik Kafur returns to Delhi after campaign in South India 
04/24/1364 Pope Urbabus V names John V van Virneburg as bishop of Utrecht 
04/24/1547 Battle of Mhlberg: Emperor Karel V vs ruler Johan F the Brave 
04/24/1704 Boston News-Letter, 1st successful newspaper in US, established 
04/24/1792 'La Marseillaise' composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle 
04/24/1792 -25) Officer Joseph Rouget d'Isle writes Marseillaise Natl Anthem 
04/24/1800 Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation 
04/24/1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain 
04/24/1854 Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth AE 'Sissi' 
04/24/1863 Skirmish at Okolona/Birmingham, Mississippi (Grierson's Raid) 
04/24/1865 Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF) 
04/24/1867 Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars 
04/24/1871 Opera 'Aida' is produced (Cairo) 
04/24/1872 Volcano Vesuvius erupts 
04/24/1877 Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans) 
04/24/1884 National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)

04/24/1888 Eastman Kodak forms 
04/24/1891 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure 'Final Problem' 
04/24/1894 French cyclist Henri Desgrange rides 100km in world record 2:39:18 
04/24/1894 Phillies Lave Cross hits for cycle vs Bkln Dodgers 
04/24/1895 Joshua Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat 
04/24/1897 1st reporter, William Price, assigned to White House 
04/24/1898 Spain declares war on US rejecting ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba 
04/24/1898 US fleet under commodore Dewey sails from Hong Kong to Philippines 
04/24/1900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer 
04/24/1901 1st AL game, White Sox beat Indians 8-2, 3 other games rained out 
04/24/1905 Senators execute a triple-play & beat Yankees 4-3 
04/24/1909 Harry Hillman & Lawson Robertson run 100m 3-legged race in 11 second

04/24/1915 German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper 
04/24/1915 Massacre of Armenians by Turks (Armenian Martyrs Day) 
04/24/1915 Pitts' Frank Allen no-hits St Louis (Federal League), 2-0 
04/24/1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins 
04/24/1917 Yankee lefty George Mogridge no-hits Red Sox 2-1 at Fenway 
04/24/1920 British Mandate over Palestine goes into effect (lasts 28 years) 
04/24/1920 Polish troops attack Ukraine 
04/24/1921 1st municipal elections for men & women in Belgium 
04/24/1923 General harbor strike begins in NYC 
04/24/1929 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off 
04/24/1929 Thorvald Stauning becomes premier of Denmark 
04/24/1930 H Van Gent discovers asteroid #1165 Imprinetta 
04/24/1931 C Jackson discovers asteroid #1193 Africa 
04/24/1932 German national election (NSDAP 36.3% in Prussia) 
04/24/1932 K Reinmuth discovers asteroid #1862 Apollo 
04/24/1933 1st major league to get 4 consecutive doubles in 9 inn (Dick Bartell

04/24/1941 Dutch Prince Bernhard becomes an RAF pilot 
04/24/1944 1st Boeing B-29 arrives in China 'over the Hump' 
04/24/1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates 
04/24/1945 Albert B 'Happy' Chandler is named 2nd baseball commissioner 
04/24/1950 Independent republic of South Molukken's declared 
04/24/1950 Pres Truman denies there are communists in US govt 
04/24/1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II 
04/24/1954 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina 
04/24/1954 Australia & USSR break diplomatic relations 
04/24/1954 WSEE TV channel 35 in Erie, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting 
04/24/1955 Conference of Bandung against colonialism & self determination, ends

04/24/1955 KFDM TV channel 6 in Beaumont, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting 
04/24/1955 KMAU (now KGMV) TV channel 3 in Wailuku, HI (CBS) begins broadcastin

04/24/1957 Asteroid #3648 discovered 
04/24/1958 Lee Walls hits 3 HRS, as Cubs beat Dodgers 15-2 
04/24/1959 Neth Dance Theater opens (Rudi of Dantzig & Cut Flier) 
04/24/1959 WICD TV channel 15 in Champaign, IL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting 
04/24/1960 Heavy earthquake strikes South Persia, 500 killed 
04/24/1961 JFK accepts 'sole responsibility' following Bay of Pigs 
04/24/1961 Vasa, which sunk on her maiden voyage in 1628, is raised 
04/24/1962 1st Lockheed A-12 is taxi tested 
04/24/1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA 
04/24/1962 Sandy Koufax's 2nd 18-strikeout game 
04/24/1963 Boston beat LA, 4 games to 2, for NBA title; Bob Cousy retires 
04/24/1963 English princess Alexandra marries sir Angus Ogilvy 
04/24/1965 Military coup under Donald Reid Cabral in Dominican Republic 
04/24/1967 Philadelphia beats San Francisco, 4 games to 2, for NBA championship

04/24/1968 Leftist students take over Columbia University, NYC 
04/24/1969 Gen Lin Piao succeeds Mao, is seriously wounded 
04/24/1969 Lebanese army in battle with Palestinians 
04/24/1969 Paul McCartney says their is no truth to rumours he is dead 
04/24/1969 US B-52 drops 3,000 ton bombs at Cambodian boundary 
04/24/1970 China PR launches its 1st satellite transmitting song 'East is Red' 
04/24/1970 Gambia becomes a republic within Commonwealth 
04/24/1970 Senegal adopts constitution 
04/24/1971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth 
04/24/1974 Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion 
04/24/1974 NFL grants franchise to Tampa Bay Bucaneers 
04/24/1975 Penguins 1-Isles 4-Quarterfinals-series tied at 3-3 
04/24/1977 C Kowal discovers asteroid #2063 Bacchus 
04/24/1979 Rhodesian bishop Muzorewa wins general election 
04/24/1980 US miltary operation to save 52 hostages in Iran, fails, 8 die 
04/24/1981 Bill Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jocke

04/24/1981 IBM-PC introduced 
04/24/1981 San Antonio blocks 20 Golden State shots to set NBA reg game record 
04/24/1981 US ends grain embargo against USSR 
04/24/1982 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormatory in West Germany 
04/24/1982 C Torres discovers asteroid #3361 Orpheus 
04/24/1983 Austrian socialistic party loses parliamentary election 
04/24/1984 Oiler's Wayne Gretzky is 3rd to score on a Stanley Cup penalty shot 
04/24/1985 Pulitzer prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for 'Yin' 
04/24/1989 10s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China 
04/24/1989 Massachusetts declares today 'New Kids on the Block Day' 
04/24/1990 Security law violator Michael Milken pleads guilty to 6 felonies 
04/24/1990 US 66th manned space mission STS 31 (Discovery 10) launches into orb

04/24/1990 West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st 
04/24/1992 'Man of La Mancha' with Sheena Easton opens at Marquis theater 
04/24/1992 David Bowie marries model Iman in Switzerland 
04/24/1992 George Steinbrenner drops his suits against baseball 
04/24/1992 Vinson Pike fined œ1000 for distributing obscene computer pictures 
04/24/1993 1000 kg heavy IRA-autobomb explodes in London, killing 1 
04/24/1994 Armando Calder¢n Sol wins El Salvador presidential election 
04/24/1994 Bomb attack in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed 
04/24/1994 NY Rangers sweep NY Islanders in NHL playoffs 
  
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