47161 | April 24 | Event | 2004 – The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction. |
47162 | April 24 | Event | 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI. |
47163 | April 24 | Event | 2005 – Snuppy becomes world's first cloned dog. |
47164 | April 24 | Event | 2013 – A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,129 people and injuring 2,500 others. |
47165 | April 24 | Event | 2013 – Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people. |
47166 | April 24 | Birth | 1533 – William the Silent, German son of William I, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg (d. 1584) |
47167 | April 24 | Birth | 1581 – Vincent de Paul, French priest and saint (d. 1660) |
47168 | April 24 | Birth | 1620 – John Graunt, English demographer and statistician (d. 1674) |
47169 | April 24 | Birth | 1706 – Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian pianist and composer (d. 1780) |
47170 | April 24 | Birth | 1718 – Nathaniel Hone the Elder, Irish-English painter and educator (d. 1784) |
47171 | April 24 | Birth | 1743 – Edmund Cartwright, English clergyman and engineer, invented the power loom (d. 1823) |
47172 | April 24 | Birth | 1784 – Peter Vivian Daniel, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1860) |
47173 | April 24 | Birth | 1815 – Anthony Trollope, English author and playwright (d. 1882) |
47174 | April 24 | Birth | 1845 – Carl Spitteler, Swiss poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924) |
47175 | April 24 | Birth | 1856 – Philippe Pétain, French general and politician, 119th Prime Minister of France (d. 1951) |
47176 | April 24 | Birth | 1876 – Erich Raeder, German admiral (d. 1960) |
47177 | April 24 | Birth | 1878 – Jean Crotti, Swiss-French painter (d. 1958) |
47178 | April 24 | Birth | 1879 – Susanna Bokoyni, Hungarian-American circus performer (d. 1984) |
47179 | April 24 | Birth | 1880 – Gideon Sundback, Swedish-American engineer and businessman, developed the zipper (d. 1954) |
47180 | April 24 | Birth | 1882 – Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding, Scottish-English air marshal (d. 1970) |
47181 | April 24 | Birth | 1885 – Thomas Cronan, American triple jumper (d. 1962) |
47182 | April 24 | Birth | 1885 – Con Walsh, Irish-Canadian hammer thrower and footballer (d. 1961) |
47183 | April 24 | Birth | 1887 – Denys Finch Hatton, English hunter (d. 1931) |
47184 | April 24 | Birth | 1888 – Pe Maung Tin, Burma-based scholar and educator (d. 1973) |
47185 | April 24 | Birth | 1889 – Stafford Cripps, English academic and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer (d. 1952) |
47186 | April 24 | Birth | 1889 – Lyubov Popova, Russian painter and academic (d. 1924) |
47187 | April 24 | Birth | 1893 – Ba Cho, Burmese martyr (d. 1947) |
47188 | April 24 | Birth | 1897 – Manuel Ávila Camacho, Mexican colonel and politician, 45th President of Mexico (d. 1955) |
47189 | April 24 | Birth | 1897 – Benjamin Lee Whorf, American linguist, anthropologist, and engineer (d. 1941) |
47190 | April 24 | Birth | 1899 – Oscar Zariski, Russian-American mathematician and academic (d. 1986) |