Today is Thursday, April 24, on 114 of 2025. 251 days are left in the year.
Today in history:
On April 24, 1916, the Irish Republicans launched Easter Rising, a rebellion against British dominance in Ireland. They thought that the rebels surrendered to the British forces six days later, the uprising prepared the stage for the Republican victories in the Irish general election of 1918 and the establishment of the Irish free state through the Angloirlandic treaty in 1922.
Also on this date:
In 1915, in what is considered the beginning of the Armenian genocide, the Ottoman Empire began to round up Armenian political and cultural leaders in Constantinople.
In 1960, disturbances broke out in Biloxi, Mississippi, after the black protesters who organized a “road” on a beach only White were attacked by a multitude of hostile white people.
In 1967, the Soviet cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov was killed when his Soyuz 1 spacecraft crashed into the earth after his parachute could not properly deploy the door. He was the first fatality of human spatial flight.
In 1980, the United States launched Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to free 53 US hostages in Iran that resulted in the death of eight members of the US service.
In 1990, the discovery of the space ferry was detached from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with the Hubble space telescope of $ 1.5 billion.
In 1995, the final bomb linked to UNABOMBER exploded within the offices of Sacramento, California, of the California Forest Association, killing the chief lobbyist Gilbert B. Murray. (Theodore Kaczynski was then sentenced to four lives in prison for a series of bombings that killed three people and wounded others 23).
In 2013, in Bangladesh, an eight -story construction built with eight floors housing houses collapsed, killing more than 1,100 people.
In 2018, former police officer Joseph Deangelo was arrested at home near Sacramento after DNA linked him to crimes attributed to the Golden State murderer; The authorities believed that he committed 13 murders and more than 50 violations in the seventies and eighties. (Deangelo would speak guilty in 2020 to 13 murder positions and would be sentenced to life imprisonment without probation).
Today’s birthday:
- Actor Shirley Maclaine is 91.
- Actor-Singer Barbra Streisand filmmaker has 83.
- Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier is 73 years old.
- The actor Eric Bogosian is 72 years old.
- Actor Michael O’Kefe is 70 years old.
- The actor-comedian Cedric the artist is 61 years old.
- The actor Djimon Hounsou (Jeye’-Mihn Ohn’-Sooo) is 61.
- Aidan Gillen actor is 57 years old.
- Actor Rory McCann is 56 years old.
- The Latin pop singer Alejandro Fernández is 54 years old.
- The baseball fame, Chipper Jones, is 53 years old.
- Actor Derek Luke is 51 years old.
- The personality of the television singer Kelly Clarkson is 43 years old.
- Country singer Carly Pearce is 35 years old.
- The actor-Musia Joe Keery is 33 years old.
- Actor Jack Quaid is 33 years old.
- Actor Jordan Fisher is 31 years old.
- The golfer Lydia Ko has 28.
