All Events

Historical Events on April 24

  • Woolworth Building

    1913

    The Woolworth Building, a skyscraper in New York City, is opened.

  • Deportation of Armenian intellectuals on 24 April 1915

    1915

    The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide.

  • Easter Rising

    1916

    Easter Rising: Irish rebels, led by Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, launch an uprising in Dublin against British rule and proclaim an Irish Republic.

  • Nazi Germany

    1933

    Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg.

  • Winston Churchill

    1953

    Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

  • Suez Crisis

    1957

    Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region.

  • Dominican Republic

    1965

    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.

  • Vietnam War

    1967

    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."

  • Provisional Irish Republican Army

    1993

    An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.

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