Thursday April 24, 2025
A date scroll with Latin text from “The Extremes of Good and Evil” by Cicero, written in 45 BC.

: Day of the Week

is the of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are until the end of the year. The day of the week is .

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is jeudi.

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Zodiac & Birthstone

Taurus is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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by the Numbers

  • is in the th week of the year (ISO 8601)
  • The year is not a leap year

Historical Event(s)

1558
Mary, Queen of Scots, marries the Dauphin of France, François, at Notre Dame de Paris.
Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship ship .
The first segment of the Imperial Wireless Chain providing wireless telegraphy between Leafield in Oxfordshire, England, and Cairo, Egypt, comes into operation.
The Treaty of Berlin is signed. Germany and the Soviet Union each pledge neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for the next five years.
Winston Churchill is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov dies in Soyuz 1 when its parachute fails to open. He is the first human to die during a space mission.
An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is introduced.
The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

Who were born on ?

Giovanni Battista Martini, Italian musician (d. 1780)
Edmund Cartwright, British inventor (d. 1823)
Lyubov Popova, Russian painter (d. 1924)
Sir Clement Freud, British writer, radio personality, and politician (d. 2009)
Thorbjörn Fälldin, Prime Minister of Sweden
Barbra Streisand, American singer and actor
Dick Rivers, French singer and actor
Witold Smorawiński, Polish musician
Dusty Anderson, American pro wrestler
Laura Hamilton, Dancing On Ice 2011 Runner-Up

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