630 – Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.
717 – Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid.
1152 – Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine.
1188 – Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan.
1413 – Henry V becomes King of England.
1556 – In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.
1788 – A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins.
1800 – With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.
1801 – The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt.
1804 – Code Napoléon is adopted as French civil law.
1814 – Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube.
1821 – Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta.
1844 – The Bahá'í calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Bahá'í calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Bahá'í Faith as the Bahá'í New Year or Náw-Rúz.
1861 – Alexander Stephens gives the Cornerstone Speech.
1865 – The Battle of Bentonville ends. It would be the final Confederate effort to stop Sherman.
1871 – Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire.
1871 – Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone.
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1918 – World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins.
1919 – The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia.
1921 – The New Economic Policy is implemented by the Bolshevik Party in response to the economic failure as a result of War Communism.
1925 – The Butler Act prohibits the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee.
1925 – Syngman Rhee is removed from office after being impeached as the President of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea.
1928 – Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight.
1933 – Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed.
1935 – Shah of Iran Reza Shah Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, meaning "Land of the Aryans".
1937 – Ponce Massacre: Nineteen people in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship.
1943 – Wehrmacht officer Rudolf von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion.
1945 – World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma.
1945 – World War II: Operation Carthage: Royal Air Force planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed.
1945 – World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of the Transdanubian Hills concludes.
1946 – The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933.
1952 – Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
1960 – Apartheid in South Africa: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180.
1963 – Alcatraz Prison, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closed its doors for good and transferred out all remaining prisoners.
1965 – Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
1965 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.
1968 – Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and the combined forces of the Jordanian Armed Forces and PLO.
1970 – The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto.
1980 – US President Jimmy Carter met with American Olympic athletes and informed them that the United States was boycotting the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet war in Afghanistan.
1980 – Dallas aired its "A House Divided" episode, which led to eight months of international intrigue regarding Who shot J.R.?
1986 – Debi Thomas became the first African-American to win the World Figure Skating Championship.
1989 – Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling.
1990 – Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule.
1999 – Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon.
2000 – Pope John Paul II makes his first ever pontifical visit to Israel.
2006 – The social media site Twitter is founded.
2009 – Four police officers are shot and killed and a fifth is wounded in two shootings at Oakland, California.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Earliest day on which Holy Saturday can fall, while April 24 is the latest;
celebrated on the Saturday before Easter
Traditional Western
Benedict, Abbot and Confessor. Greater Double.
Commemoration of Thomas Cranmer.
Contemporary Western
Benedetta Cambiagio Frassinello
Nicholas of Flüe
Serapion of Thmuis
Nicholas of Flüe
Serapion of Thmuis
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Thomas Cranmer (Anglicanism)
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyrs Philemon and Domninus of Thessalonica, in Italy
Saint Maria the Martyr, in Perge
Saint Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis, Egypt (c. 358)
Venerable Serapion the Sindonite, monk of Egypt (4th c.)
Saint Sophronius, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Theodosius, in Palestine (542)
Saint Thomas, Patriarch of Constantinople (610)
Venerable James the Confessor (Jacob the Confessor), Bishop of the Studion (late 8th c.)
Saint Maria the Martyr, in Perge
Saint Serapion, Bishop of Thmuis, Egypt (c. 358)
Venerable Serapion the Sindonite, monk of Egypt (4th c.)
Saint Sophronius, Abbot of the Monastery of St. Theodosius, in Palestine (542)
Saint Thomas, Patriarch of Constantinople (610)
Venerable James the Confessor (Jacob the Confessor), Bishop of the Studion (late 8th c.)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saint Beryllus, Bishop of Catania (c. 90)
Saint Cyril, Bishop of Catania (1st-2nd c.)
Saint Lupicinus of Lyon, desert-dweller of the Jura Mountains, Gaul (480)
Saint Enda of Aran, Abbot of Arranmore, monk, earliest leader of Irish monasticism (530)
Saint Cyril, Bishop of Catania (1st-2nd c.)
Saint Lupicinus of Lyon, desert-dweller of the Jura Mountains, Gaul (480)
Saint Enda of Aran, Abbot of Arranmore, monk, earliest leader of Irish monasticism (530)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
New Martyr Michael of Agrapha, at Thessalonica (1544)
Venerable Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949)
Venerable Seraphim of Vyritsa (1949)
New Martyrs and Confessors
New Hieromartyr Vladimir Vvedensky, Priest (1931)
New Hieromartyr Theodore (Pozdeyev), Archbishop (1938)
New Hieromartyr Theodore (Pozdeyev), Archbishop (1938)
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