Historical Events In April - 24
Friday, 31 March 2023
1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac) on this day in history.
1769 On this day in history arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington
1773 On this day in history harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director
1776 On April - 24 carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84
1791 On this day in history nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland)
1792 "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle on this day in history.
1792 "La Marseillaise", which later becomes the French national anthem, composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle on this day in history.
1796 K L Immermann, writer on this day in history.
1800 On April - 24 library of Congress established with $5,000 allocation
1800 On April - 24 library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1801 On April - 24 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"
1804 On April - 24 thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)
1807 Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 on April - 24.
1814 Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire on this day in history.
1815 On April - 24 anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers)
1822 On this day in history erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1823 Eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique," premieres in Paris on this day in history.
1824 Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger on this day in history.
1824 Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71 on this day in history.
1827 On April - 24 pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82
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 On this day in history jacob Ebert of Cadiz, OH and George Dulty of Wheeling, WV got together to patent the soda fountain.
1833 On this day in history patent granted for first soda fountain
1833 Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent soda fountain on this day in history.
1836 Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist on this day in history.
1837 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) on this day in history.
1845 On April - 24 carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919)
1848 Francois van Campenhout, Belgian composer (Brabanconne), dies at 69 on April - 24.
1849 On April - 24 joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)
1850 Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70 on this day in history.
1851 On this day in history eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria)
1854 On this day in history 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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