Page 2: Historical Events In April - 24

1766  On this day in history robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac)   

1769  On April - 24 arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington   

1773  On April - 24 harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director   

1776  Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84 on April - 24.   

1791  On April - 24 nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)   

1792  On this day in history "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle   

1792  "La Marseillaise", which later becomes the French national anthem, composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle on April - 24.   

1796  K L Immermann, writer on April - 24.   

1800  On April - 24 library of Congress established with $5,000 allocation   

1800  On this day in history library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation   

1801  On this day in history 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"   

1804  Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy) on this day in history.   

1807  On this day in history charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862   

1814  Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire on this day in history.   

1815  Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers) on this day in history.   

1822  On this day in history erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)   

1823  On this day in history eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique," premieres in Paris   

1824  On this day in history fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger   

1824  Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71 on this day in history.   

1827  Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.   

1828  Robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 on April - 24.   

1829  George Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881 on April - 24.   

1833  Jacob Ebert of Cadiz, OH and George Dulty of Wheeling, WV got together to patent the soda fountain on April - 24.   

1833  Patent granted for first soda fountain on this day in history.   

1833  On this day in history jacob Evert & George Dulty patent soda fountain   

1836  On this day in history jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist   

1837  On this day in history friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)   

1845  On April - 24 carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919)   

1848  Francois van Campenhout, Belgian composer (Brabanconne), dies at 69 on this day in history.   

1849  On this day in history joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)   

1850  On this day in history louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70   

1851  Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria) on April - 24.   

1854  On April - 24 austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"   

1855  On this day in history walenty Karol Kratzer, composer, dies at 75   

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1533  On this day in history birth of william I of Orange (d. 1584)   

1538  On April - 24 birth of gugliemo Gonzaga, composer   

1581  Vincent de Paul, French saint (d. 1660) was born on April - 24.   

1594  Benedikt Lechler, composer was born on April - 24.   

1620  John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography was born on April - 24.   

1660  On this day in history birth of cornelis Dusart, Dutch painter/engraver   

1670  On April - 24 birth of christian Ludwig Boxberg, composer   

1706  On April - 24 birth of giovanni Battista Martini, composer   

0624  On April - 24 death of mellitus, third Archbishop of Canterbury   

0709  On April - 24 wilfried, bishop of York, dies at about 76   

0729  On this day in history egbert[us], English bishop/saint, dies in Iona at 89   

1077  On April - 24 geza I, King of Hungary (1074-7), dies   

1185  On this day in history death of antoku Taira, emperor of Japan (1180-85), drowns   

1338  Death of Marquis Theodore I of Montferrat (b. 1291) on April - 24.   

1530  Jacopo Sannazaro, Italian poet (De partu Virginis), dies on this day in history.   

1617  Death of Carlo Concino, French marquis of Ancre/state advisor, murdered on this day in history.