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April 24 is the 114st day of the year (115nd in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

1512 - Selim I ascended the throne of the Ottoman Empire.
1513 – Battle of Yenişehir, the end of the fight for the throne between Selim I and his older brother Ahmet Sultan.
1558 – Mary I of Scots, Dofen II. She married François at Notre Dame Cathedral.
1704 - America's first newspaper The Boston News-LetterPublished in Boston by John Kampbell.
1800 – The Library of Congress, the world's largest library, is founded.
1830 – The Ottoman Government officially recognized the existence of the Greek State.
1854 – Franz Joseph I and Elisabeth (aka Shisi) married in Augustinerkirche.
1877 – Russia entered Wallachia and Moldavia and declared war on the Ottomans, thus the Ottoman-Russian war, known as the 93 War, began.
1898 - Spain declared war on the USA, rejecting the US request to evacuate the island, which supported Cuba's independence.
1909 – The Movement Army, which came to Istanbul, suppressed the 31 March Uprising.
1915 – 2345 people from prominent Armenian community were arrested in Istanbul.
1916 – The secret nationalist organization "Irish Republican Brotherhood" led by Patrick Pearse launched the Easter Rising against British rule in Dublin with the Post Office Raid.
1920 – Mustafa Kemal was elected to the Presidency of the Grand National Assembly.
1946 – Ulvi Cemal Erkin's “First Symphony” was performed for the first time at Ankara State Conservatory.
1955 – On April 18, in Bandung, Indonesia, the conference of 29 non-aligned African and Asian countries came to an end; In the final declaration, it was demanded that colonialism and racism end. (see Bandung Conference)
1959 - Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser orders to nationalize Shell and Anglo-Egyptian oil companies.
1972 – Turkish Grand National Assembly; Deniz Gezmiş reaffirmed the death sentences of Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin Inan.
1978 – In the firedamp explosion in the Armutçuk production area of Ereğli Coal Enterprise, 17 workers died.
1980 – The Process Leading to the September 12, 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979- September 12, 1980): Chief of General Staff Gen. Kenan Evren, in his notebook, “The situation is not good at all. Nothing is settled. I guess we will have to intervene in the end.” Wrote.
1980 – A rescue operation to rescue 52 Americans held hostage in Iran results in the deaths of eight US soldiers before the hostages can be rescued.
2001 – Ankara DGM Chief Public Prosecutor's Office completed the investigation regarding the "White Energy Operation" and filed a lawsuit.
2004 – Referendum on the Annan Plan was held in Cyprus. The plan accepted by the Turkish side could not be implemented as a result of the Greek side's rejection.
2007 – Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced that they would nominate Abdullah Gül for the Presidency. Abdullah Gül applied to the Presidency of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey for the candidacy of the 11th President of Turkey.
2012 – US President Barack Obama used the expression “Meds Yeghern”, which means “Great Disaster”, as it was last year, in his speech on April 1915, which was chosen by Armenians as the day to commemorate the events in 24.

Births

1533 – William the Silent, first and foremost leader of the Eighty Years' War during which the Netherlands gained independence (d. 1584)
1562 – Xu Guangqi, baptized Paul, Chinese agronomist, astronomer, mathematician, author, and statesman (d. 1633)
1575 – Jakob Böhme, German Christian mystic (d. 1624)
1581 – Vincent de Paul, French Catholic priest, saint, and cult founder (d. 1660)
1620 – John Graunt, English statistician (d. 1674)
1721 – Johann Kirnberger, German composer and theorist (d. 1783)
1767 – Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Swiss painter (d. 1849)
1784 - Peter Vivian Daniel, American lawyer (d. 1860)
1787 – Mathieu Orfila, Spanish-born French medical educator (d. 1853)
1812 – Walthère Frère-Orban, Belgian politician and statesman (d. 1896)
1825 – Robert Michael Ballantyne, Scottish writer (d. 1894)
1845 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet, author, and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
1856 – Philippe Pétain, President of Vichy France (d. 1951)
1862 – Tomitaro Makino, Japanese botanist (d. 1957)
1874 – John Russell Pope, American architect (b. 1937)
1876 – Erich Raeder, German admiral (d. 1960)
1880 – Gideon Sundback, Swedish inventor (d. 1954)
1901 – Talat Artemel, Turkish theater and cinema artist (d. 1957)
1905 – Robert Penn Warren, American poet, fiction writer, and Pulitzer Prize winner (d. 1989)
1906 William Joyce, American Nazi propagandist (d. 1946)
1922 – Anton Bogetić, Croatian priest and bishop
1924 – Nahuel Moreno, Argentine Trotskyist leader (d. 1987)
1929 – Ferit Tuzun, Turkish composer (d. 1977)
1934 – Shirley MacLaine, American actress, writer, and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
1936 – Jill Ireland, English actress (d. 1990)
1937 – Joe Henderson, American jazz musician (d. 2001)
1938 – Hasanaga Turabov, Azerbaijani actress (d. 2003)
1941 – Richard Holbrooke, American diplomat, magazine publisher, and author (d. 2010)
1942 – Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress, director, and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actress
1943 - Anna Maria Cecchi, Italian swimmer
1947 – Richard John Garcia, American bishop and clergyman (d. 2018)
1952 – Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
1960 – Philip Absolon, English painter
1961 – Mehmet Uslu, Turkish TV series and film actor (d. 2018)
1961 – Erol Budan, Arabesque music artist
1964 – Djimon Hounsou, Benin-born American actor
1968 – Aidan Gillen, Irish film, stage and television actor
1968 – Hashim Thaci, Kosovo politician and President of Kosovo
1969 - Rebecca Martin, American singer-songwriter
1969 – Gülşah Alkoçlar, Turkish actress
1971 – Stefania Rocca, Italian actress
1973 – Damon Lindelof, American screenwriter and producer
1976 – Steve Finnan, Irish football player
1977 – Diego Placente, Argentina national football team player
1978 – Mert Kılıç, Turkish actor and model
1980 – Fernando Arce, Mexican football player
1980 – Pınar Soykan, Turkish singer
1982 - Kelly Clarkson, American singer
1982 – David Oliver, American steeplechase athlete
1983 – Xetaq Qazyumov, Azerbaijani wrestler
1985 - Carlos Bellvís, Spanish football player
1985 – Ismael Gómez Falcón, Spanish football player
1987 – Rein Taaramäe is an Estonian road cyclist.
1987 – Jan Vertonghen, Belgian national football player
1989 – Elina Babkina, Latvian professional basketball player
1990 – Kim Tae-ri, South Korean actress
1990 – Jan Veselý, Czech basketball player
1991 – Batuhan Karadeniz, Turkish football player
1992 – Joe Keery, American actor and musician
1993 – Ben Davies, Welsh national football player
1994 – Caspar Lee, British-born South African YouTube His personality is a vlogger and actor.
1994 – Vedat Muriqi, Kosovan football player
1996 – Ashleigh Barty, Australian professional tennis player and former cricketer
1997 – Yuta Kamiya, Japanese football player
1998 – Ryan Newman, American actor and model

Deaths

1513 – Ahmed Sultan, II. Bayezid's eldest son and Governor of Amasya
1731 – Daniel Defoe, English writer (b. 1660)
1822 – Giovanni Battista Venturi, Italian physicist, diplomat, historian of science, and Catholic priest (b. 1746)
1852 – Vasily Zhukovsky, Russian poet (b. 1783)
1884 – Marie Taglioni, Italian ballerina (b. 1804)
1891 – Helmuth Karl Bernhard von Moltke, Prussian field marshal (b. 1800)
1926 – Sunjong, second and last emperor of Korea and last ruler of Joseon (b. 1874)
1931 – Davit Kldiashvili, Georgian writer (b. 1862)
1932 – Vasfi Mirza Pasha, Circassian origin soldier (b. 1837)
1935 – Anastasios Papulas, commander-in-chief of the Greek forces (b. 1857)
1941 – Sisowath Monivong, King of Cambodia (b. 1875)
1942 – Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian writer (b. 1874)
1945 – Ernst-Robert Grawitz, II. Doctor in Nazi Germany during World War II (b. 1899)
1947 – Willa Cather, American novelist (b. 1873)
1951 – Eugen Müller, II. Nazi general who served in the Wehrmacht during World War II (b. 1891)
1952 – İbrahim Halil Soğukoğlu, Islamic scholar and leader of the Murid Movement (b. 1901)
1960 – Max von Laue, German physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1879)
1960 – George Relph, English actor (b. 1888)
1967 – Vladimir Komarov, Soviet cosmonaut and the first person to die during a space mission (b. 1927)
1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1980 – Alejo Carpentier, Cuban writer (b. 1904)
1982 – Ville Ritola, Finnish long-distance runner (b. 1896)
1983 – Erol Güngör, Turkish professor of social psychology (b. 1938)
1984 – Ekrem Hakkı Ayverdi, Turkish writer and engineer (b. 1899)
1986 – Aydın Emeç, Turkish journalist and translator
1986 – Wallis Simpson, American socialite (b. 1896)
1991 – Ali Rıza Alp, Turkish journalist, writer and poet (b. 1923)
2001 – Hasan Dinçer, Turkish politician (b. 1910)
2003 – Nüzhet Gökdoğan, Turkish astronomer and academic (b. 1910)
2004 – Feridun Karakaya, Turkish theater and film actor (b. 1928)
2004 – Estée Lauder, American entrepreneur, beautician (b. 1906)
2005 – Ezer Weizman, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924)
2005 – Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist and anthropologist (b. 1910)
2006 – Brian Labone, English former international football player (b. 1940)
2007 – Alan James Ball, English former international footballer and manager (b. 1945)
2010 – Denis Guedj, French writer (b. 1940)
2010 – Özdemir Özok, Turkish lawyer (b. 1945)
2011 – Ngô Đình Nhu, first lady of South Vietnam from 1955 to 1963 (b. 1924)
2011 – Marie-France Pisier, French actress (b. 1944)
2011 – Sri Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru, spiritual figure, philanthropist and educator (b. 1926)
2014 – Hans Hollein, Austrian architect and designer (b. 1934)
2014 – Sandy Jardine, Scottish international football player and manager (b. 1948)
2014 – Michel Lang, French film director and TV producer (b. 1939)
2016 – Inge King, German-born Australian sculptor and artist (b. 1915)
2016 – Jules Shungu Wembadio Pene Kikumba, known as: Papa Wembafamous singer and musician, citizen of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (b. 1949)
2016 – Klaus Siebert, German biathlete and coach (b. 1955)
2016 – Paul Williams, by stage name Billy Paul, American musician and singer (b. 1934)
2016 – Nina Arhipova, Russian actress (b. 1921)
2017 – Don Gordon, American male film and television actor (b. 1926)
2017 – Inga Maria Ålenius, Swedish actress (b.1938)
2017 – Robert M. Pirsig, American author and philosopher (b. 1928)
2018 – Paul Gray, Australian singer-songwriter, pianist and record producer (b. 1963)
2018 – Henri Michel, former French football player (b. 1947)
2019 – Saleh Ahmed, Bangladeshi theater, film and television actor (b. 1936/37)
2019 – Hubert Hahne, German speedway driver (b. 1935)
2019 – Jean-Pierre Marielle, French actor (b. 1932)
2019 – Dick Rivers (birth name: Herve Forneri), French singer and actress (b. 1945)
2020 – Ibrahim Amini, Iranian politician and cleric (b. 1925)
2020 – Namio Harukawa, Japanese illustrator of fetish genres (b. 1947)
2020 – Francis Lee Strong (known as: grandma lee), American stand-up comedian (b. 1934)
2020 – Mircea Mureșan, Romanian film director (b. 1928)
2020 – Yukio Okamoto, Japanese diplomat, diplomatic analyst (b. 1945)
2020 – Lynn Faulds Wood, Scottish television presenter, journalist and activist (b. 1948)
2021 – Ana María Casó, Argentine actress and theater director (b. 1937)
2021 – Kalawati Bhuria, Indian female politician (b. 1972)
2021 – Yves Rénier, French actor, director, screenwriter and dubbing artist (b. 1942)
2022 – Willi Resetarits, Austrian singer, comedian and human rights activist (b. 1948)

Holidays and special occasions

Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
World Laboratory Animals Day
Vaccination Week (24-30 April 2016)