| 47131 | April 24 | Event | 1907 – Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened. |
| 47132 | April 24 | Event | 1913 – The Woolworth Building skyscraper in New York City is opened. |
| 47133 | April 24 | Event | 1914 – The Franck–Hertz experiment, a pillar of quantum mechanics, is presented to the German Physical Society. |
| 47134 | April 24 | Event | 1915 – The arrest of 250 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders in Istanbul marks the beginning of the Armenian Genocide. |
| 47135 | April 24 | Event | 1916 – Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland. |
| 47136 | April 24 | Event | 1916 – 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 ice-trapped ship Endurance. |
| 47137 | April 24 | Event | 1918 – First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs meet three German A7Vs. |
| 47138 | April 24 | Event | 1922 – The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation. |
| 47139 | April 24 | Event | 1923 – In Vienna, the paper Das Ich und das Es (The Ego and the Id) by Sigmund Freud is published, which outlines Freud's theories of the id, ego, and super-ego. |
| 47140 | April 24 | Event | 1926 – The 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. |
| 47141 | April 24 | Event | 1932 – Benny Rothman leads the mass trespass of Kinder Scout, leading to substantial legal reforms in the United Kingdom. |
| 47142 | April 24 | Event | 1933 – Nazi Germany begins its persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses by shutting down the Watch Tower Society office in Magdeburg. |
| 47143 | April 24 | Event | 1944 – World War II: The SBS launches a raid against the garrison of Santorini in Greece. |
| 47144 | April 24 | Event | 1953 – Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. |
| 47145 | April 24 | Event | 1955 – The Bandung Conference ends: Twenty-nine non-aligned nations of Asia and Africa finish a meeting that condemns colonialism, racism, and the Cold War. |
| 47146 | April 24 | Event | 1957 – Suez Crisis: The Suez Canal is reopened following the introduction of UNEF peacekeepers to the region. |
| 47147 | April 24 | Event | 1957 – The BBC first broadcast The Sky at Night presented by Patrick Moore |
| 47148 | April 24 | Event | 1963 – Marriage of HRH Princess Alexandra of Kent to the Hon Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey in London. |
| 47149 | April 24 | Event | 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. |
| 47150 | April 24 | Event | 1967 – Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission. |
| 47151 | April 24 | Event | 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." |
| 47152 | April 24 | Event | 1968 – Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations. |
| 47153 | April 24 | Event | 1970 – The first Chinese satellite, Dong Fang Hong I, is launched. |
| 47154 | April 24 | Event | 1970 – The Gambia becomes a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations, with Dawda Jawara as the first President. |
| 47155 | April 24 | Event | 1971 – Soyuz 10 docks with Salyut 1. |
| 47156 | April 24 | Event | 1980 – Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis. |
| 47157 | April 24 | Event | 1990 – STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. |
| 47158 | April 24 | Event | 1990 – Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine. |
| 47159 | April 24 | Event | 1993 – An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London. |
| 47160 | April 24 | Event | 1996 – In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law. |