April 24: Who’s Celebrating – Some events like today

April 24: events like today

Pictures: Athanasios Diakos, the monument to the 318 executed in the Towers (Katranitsa) of Kozani, Cypriots in favor of “No” in the referendum, the Olympian European champion in basketball, Paschalis Terzis

Wednesday, April 24, 2024: Saint Achilles Hieromartyr, Saint Doukas, Pasikratus and Valention Martyrs, Saint Elizabeth the Wonderworker, Saint Thaumastos

Celebrate: Achilles, Achilles Duke, Duchess, Valentine, Elizabeth, Admirer, Admirer

Anniversaries
• Armenian Genocide Memorial Day
• World Day for the Abolition of Animal Testing

Events on April 24
• 1792 Artillery captain Claude Joseph Rouget de Lille composes the “Marseillaise” which today is the national anthem of France.
• 1821 Athanasios Diakos meets a horrible death by execution by the Ottomans who had captured him the day before in the Battle of Alamana.
• 1915 The Young Turks arrest 200 prominent Armenians of Constantinople. Beginning of the Armenian Genocide, which claimed the lives of 1.5 million people by 1923.
• 1916 Rebellion against British occupation in Ireland.
• 1918 The first tank battle in the history of military engagements takes place. In Villers-Bretonneux, France, British Mark IV tanks and German A7Vs face off.
•1932 New technologies are put to the service of football for the first time. In the Arsenal v Newcastle (2-1) FA Cup Final match, film is used to prove that Allen’s winning goal was disallowed. The frame in question is published on the front page of the “Daily Mirror” newspaper.

• 1944 The German occupation troops execute 318 inhabitants of the village in Pyrgos (Katranitsa) Kozani, in retaliation for the execution of two German soldiers.

• [1945 At the end of World War II, American forces liberate the Dachau camp.
• 1967 The Soyuz 1 spacecraft crashes on its return to Earth, killing cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. He is the first person to die during a space mission.

• 1970 The first Chinese satellite is launched.
• 1997 Olympiacos is crowned European basketball champion. In the final of the final four, which took place in Rome, they beat Barcelona 73-58.

• 2004 In a referendum held in 2004 simultaneously in free Cyprus and in the Occupied, the Greek Cypriots rejected the Plan with a percentage of 75.83%. On the other side of the island, “YES” gathered a percentage of 64.9%.

April 24th births
• 1919 Glavkos Cleridis, Cypriot politician
• 1942 Barbra Streisand, American singer and actress
• 1949 Paschalis Terzis, Greek singer
• 1952 Jean-Paul Gaultier, French fashion designer
• 1967 Dino Raja, Croatian basketball player

Deaths on April 24
• 1821 Athanasios Diakos, hero of the Greek Revolution
• 1974 Bud Abbott, American comedian
• 2010 Dimitris T. Tsatsos Greek jurist

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