Page 2: Historical Events In April - 24
Friday, 11 July 2025
1766 Robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac) on this day in history.
1769 On April - 24 arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington
1773 Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director on April - 24.
1776 Carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84 on April - 24.
1791 On this day in history 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 On this day in history k L Immermann, writer
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 this day in history 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"
1804 Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy) on April - 24.
1807 On April - 24 charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1814 On this day in history angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire
1815 On this day in history anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers)
1822 Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.
1823 Eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique," premieres in Paris on April - 24.
1824 On April - 24 fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger
1824 Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71 on April - 24.
1827 On April - 24 pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82
1828 On this day in history robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1829 On April - 24 george Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881
1833 Jacob Ebert of Cadiz, OH and George Dulty of Wheeling, WV got together to patent the soda fountain on this day in history.
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 On this day in history jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist
1837 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) on this day in history.
1845 Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919) on this day in history.
1848 Francois van Campenhout, Belgian composer (Brabanconne), dies at 69 on this day in history.
1849 On April - 24 joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)
1850 Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70 on April - 24.
1851 On April - 24 eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria)
1854 Austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi" on April - 24.
1855 Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.
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