Editing April 24 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1479 BC]] &ndash; [[Thutmose III]] ascends to the throne of [[Ancient Egypt|Egypt]], although power effectively shifts to [[Hatshepsut]] (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th dynasty).
*[[1183 BC]] &ndash; Traditional reckoning of the Fall of [[Troy]] marking the end of the legendary [[Trojan War]], given by chief librarian of the [[Library of Alexandria]] [[Eratosthenes]], among others.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kokkinos |first1=Nikos |title=Ancient Chronology, Eratosthenes and the Dating of the Fall of Troy |journal=Ancient West & East |date=31 December 2009 |volume=8 |pages=37–56 |doi=10.2143/AWE.8.0.2045837 |url=https://www.academia.edu/3150518 |access-date=14 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1547]] &ndash; [[Battle of Mühlberg]]. [[Fernando Álvarez de Toledo, 3rd Duke of Alba|Duke of Alba]], commanding Spanish-Imperial forces of [[Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor|Charles I of Spain]], defeats the troops of [[Schmalkaldic League]].
*[[1558]] &ndash; [[Mary, Queen of Scots]], [[Wedding of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Francis, Dauphin of France|marries]] the [[Dauphin of France]], [[Francis II of France|François]], at [[Notre-Dame de Paris]].<ref>Herbert Van Scoy & Bernerd C. Weber, 'The Marriage of Mary Queen of Scots and the Dauphin', ''Scottish Historical Review'', 31:111, Part 1 (April 1952), p. 41.</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1704]] &ndash; The first regular newspaper in [[Thirteen Colonies|British Colonial America]], ''[[The Boston News-Letter]]'', is published.
*[[1793]] &ndash; French revolutionary [[Jean-Paul Marat]] is acquitted by the Revolutionary Tribunal of charges brought by the Girondin in Paris.<ref>{{cite book |last=Loomis |first=Stanley |date=1 June 1990 |title=Paris in the Terror |publisher=Dorset House Publishing Co Inc |isbn=978-0880294010}}</ref>
*[[1800]] &ndash; The United States [[Library of Congress]] is established when President [[John Adams]] signs legislation to appropriate $5,000 to purchase "such books as may be necessary for the use of [[United States Congress|Congress]]".
*[[1837]] &ndash; The [[1837 Surat fire|great fire in Surat]] city of India caused more than 500 deaths and destruction of more than 9,000 houses.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xEFuAAAAMAAJ&q=+fire+1837|title=Gujarat State Gazetteers: Surat District|publisher=Directorate of Government Printing, Stationery and Publications, Gujarat State|year=1962|edition=2nd (Revised in 1962), 1st (1877)|location=Ahmedabad|pages=976–978}}</ref>
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Russo-Turkish War (1877–78)|Russo-Turkish War]]: The [[Russian Empire]] declares war on the [[Ottoman Empire]].
*[[1885]] &ndash; American [[sharpshooter]] [[Annie Oakley]] is hired by Nate Salsbury to be a part of [[Buffalo Bill's Wild West]].
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Joshua Slocum]], the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop ''Spray''.<ref name="CBOD">{{cite book |last1=Ferguson |first1=Rosalind |title=Book of Days: A miscellany of popular antiquities in connection with the calendar |date=2004 |publisher=[[Chambers (publisher)|Chambers]] |isbn=0550100830 |page=203}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1913]] &ndash; The [[Woolworth Building]], a [[skyscraper]] in New York City, is opened.
*[[1914]] &ndash; The [[Franck–Hertz experiment]], a pillar of [[Introduction to quantum mechanics|quantum mechanics]], is presented to the [[Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft|German Physical Society]].
*[[1915]] &ndash; The arrest of [[Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915|250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders]] in [[Istanbul]] marks the beginning of the [[Armenian genocide]].
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[Easter Rising]]: Irish rebels, led by [[Patrick Pearse]] and [[James Connolly]], launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and [[Proclamation of the Irish Republic|proclaim an Irish Republic]].
*  1916   &ndash; [[Ernest Shackleton]] and five men of the [[Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition]] launch a lifeboat from uninhabited [[Elephant Island]] in the [[Southern Ocean]] to organise a rescue for the crew of the sunken {{ship||Endurance|1912 ship|2}}.
*[[1918]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: First tank-to-tank combat, during the [[second Battle of Villers-Bretonneux]]. Three British [[Mark IV tank|Mark IV]]s meet three German [[A7V]]s.
*[[1922]] &ndash; The first segment of the [[Imperial Wireless Chain]] providing [[wireless telegraphy]] between [[Leafield wireless station|Leafield]] in Oxfordshire, England, and [[Cairo]], Egypt, comes into operation.
*[[1924]] &ndash; [[Thorvald Stauning]] becomes premier of [[Denmark]] (first term).<ref>Skou, Kaare R. (2005). ''Dansk politik A-Å'' {{in lang|da}}. Aschehoug, pp. 110, 638-639. {{ISBN|87-11-11652-8}}.</ref>
*[[1926]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Berlin (1926)|Treaty of Berlin]] is signed. Germany and the [[Soviet Union]] each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
*[[1932]] &ndash; [[Benny Rothman]] leads the [[mass trespass of Kinder Scout]], leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom.
*[[1933]] &ndash; [[Nazi Germany]] begins its [[Persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses in Nazi Germany|persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses]] by shutting down the [[Corporations of Jehovah's Witnesses|Watch Tower Society]] office in [[Magdeburg]].
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The [[Special Boat Service|SBS]] launches a [[Raid on Santorini|raid against the garrison of Santorini]] in Greece.
*[[1953]] &ndash; [[Winston Churchill]] is knighted by Queen [[Elizabeth II]].
*[[1955]] &ndash; The [[Bandung Conference]] ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns [[colonialism]], [[racism]], and the [[Cold War]].
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[Suez Crisis]]: The [[Suez Canal]] is reopened following the introduction of [[United Nations Emergency Force|UNEF]] peacekeepers to the region.
*[[1963]] &ndash; Marriage of [[Princess Alexandra, The Honourable Lady Ogilvy|Princess Alexandra of Kent]] to [[Angus Ogilvy]] at [[Westminster Abbey]] in London.
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Dominican Civil War|Civil war]] breaks out in the [[Dominican Republic]] when Colonel [[Francisco Caamaño]] overthrows the [[triumvirate]] that had been in power since the [[coup d'état]] against [[Juan Bosch (politician)|Juan Bosch]].
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Astronaut|Cosmonaut]] [[Vladimir Komarov]] dies in [[Soyuz 1]] when its [[parachute]] fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.<ref name="CBOD"/>
*  1967   &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: American General [[William Westmoreland]] says in a news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win militarily".
*[[1970]] &ndash; China launches ''[[Dong Fang Hong I]]'', becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1970-034A|title=PRC 1|publisher=National Space Science Data Center|access-date=5 April 2020}}</ref>
*  1970   &ndash; [[The Gambia]] becomes a [[republic]] within the [[Commonwealth of Nations]], with [[Dawda Jawara]] as its first [[President of the Gambia|President]].
*[[1979]] &ndash; Blair Peach, a New Zealand teacher, [[Death of Blair Peach|dies]] after being knocked unconscious during an [[Anti-Nazi League]] demonstration against a [[National Front (UK)|National Front]] election meeting in [[Southall]], London.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Chaudhary |first=Vivek |date=2019-04-21 |title=Forty years on, Southall demands justice for killing of Blair Peach |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/21/southall-demands-justice-killing-of-blair-peach-1979 |access-date=2024-04-24 |work=The Observer |language=en-GB |issn=0029-7712}}</ref>
*[[1980]] &ndash; Eight U.S. servicemen die in [[Operation Eagle Claw]] as they attempt to end the [[Iran hostage crisis]].
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[STS-31]]: The [[Hubble Space Telescope]] is launched from the [[Space Shuttle program|Space Shuttle]] ''[[Space Shuttle Discovery|Discovery]]''.
*  1990   &ndash; [[Gruinard Island]], Scotland, is officially declared free of the [[anthrax]] disease after 48 years of [[quarantine]].
*[[1993]] &ndash; An [[Provisional Irish Republican Army|IRA]] [[1993 Bishopsgate bombing|bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area]] of London.
*[[1994]] &ndash; A [[Douglas DC-3]] [[1994 South Pacific Airmotive DC-3 crash|ditches]] in [[Botany Bay]] after takeoff from [[Sydney Airport]]. All 25 people on board survive.<ref name="BureauArchives">{{Cite web |title=Crash of a Douglas C-47A-20-DK off Sydney |url=https://www.baaa-acro.com/operator/south-pacific-airmotive-spa |access-date=9 January 2022 |website=www.baaa-acro.com |publisher=Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives}}</ref>
*[[1996]] &ndash; In the United States, the [[Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996]] is passed into law.
*[[2004]] &ndash; The United States lifts [[economic sanctions]] imposed on [[History of Libya under Muammar Gaddafi#Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (1977–2012)|Libya]] 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating [[weapons of mass destruction]].
*[[2005]] &ndash; [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|Cardinal]] Joseph Ratzinger is [[Papal inauguration|inaugurated]] as the 265th [[Pope]] of the [[Catholic Church]] taking the name [[Pope Benedict XVI]].
*[[2006]] &ndash; [[2006 Dahab bombings|Bombings]] in the Egyptian [[Resort town|resort city]] of [[Dahab]] kill 23 people and injure about 80.<ref>{{cite news |last=Wedemen |first=Ben |author2=Faraj, Caroline |author3=Zippori, Michal |date=2006-04-26 |title=Egypt ties Dahab blasts to other attacks |url=http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/26/egypt.blasts/index.html |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060624043947/http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/04/26/egypt.blasts/index.html |archivedate=2006-06-24 |accessdate=2006-07-28 |work=[[CNN]]}}</ref>
*[[2011]] &ndash; [[WikiLeaks]] starts  publishing the [[Guantanamo Bay files leak]].
*[[2013]] &ndash; A [[Rana Plaza collapse|building collapses]] near [[Dhaka]], Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hoskins |first=Tansy |date=2015-04-23 |title=Reliving the Rana Plaza factory collapse: a history of cities in 50 buildings, day 22 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/apr/23/rana-plaza-factory-collapse-history-cities-50-buildings |access-date=2024-04-24 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2013-05-08 |title=Bangladesh building collapse death toll over 800 |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-22450419 |access-date=2024-04-24 |work=BBC News |language=en-GB}}</ref>
*  2013   &ndash; [[April 2013 Bachu unrest|Violence]] in [[Bachu County]], [[Kashgar Prefecture]], of [[China]]'s [[Xinjiang]] results in death of 21 people.