April 24

People born on this day are Taurus.

On this day in history01

1970
China launches Dong Fang Hong I, becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.
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1980
Eight U.S. servicemen die in Operation Eagle Claw as they attempt to end the Iran hostage crisis.
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1990
STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
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1990
Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.
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1993
An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
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1994
A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive.
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1996
In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
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2005
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
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2006
Bombings in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab kill 23 people and injure about 80.
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2011
WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
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2013
A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.
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2025
A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves one person dead and three others wounded.
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