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Today is Wednesday, April 24, the 115th day of 2024 with 251 to follow. The moon is waning. Morning stars are Mars, Saturn and Venus. Evening stars are Jupiter and Uranus.
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Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include French Roman Catholic St. Vincent de Paul in 1581; British novelist Anthony Trollope in 1815; French Gen. Philippe Petain in 1856; U.S. artist Willem de Kooning in 1904; actor Shirley MacLaine in 1934 (age 90); actor Jill Ireland in 1936; writer Sue Grafton in 1940; musician/actor/filmmaker Barbra Streisand in 1942 (age 82); former Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley in 1942 (age 82); musician Doug Clifford (Creedence Clearwater Revival) in 1945 (age 79); fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier in 1952 (age 72); actor Eric Bogosian in 1953 (age 71); actor Michael O'Keefe in 1955 (age 69); actor Glenn Morshower in 1959 (age 65); musician Billy Gould (Faith No More) in 1963 (age 61); actor Djimon Hounsou in 1964 (age 60); actor Cedric the Entertainer, born Cedric Antonio Kyles, in 1964 (age 60); musician Patty Schemel (Hole) in 1967 (age 57); musician Aaron Comess (Spin Doctors) in 1968 (age 56); actor Aidan Gillen in 1968 (age 56); actor Rory McCann in 1969 (age 55); musician Brian Marshall (Creed/Alter Bridge) in 1973 (age 51); actor Eric Balfour in 1977 (age 47); actor Rebecca Mader in 1977 (age 47); musician/TV personality Kelly Clarkson in 1982 (age 42); musician Tyson Ritter (All-American Rejects) in 1984 (age 40); musician Carly Pearce in 1990 (age 34); actor/musician Joe Keery (Djo) in 1992 (age 32); actor Jack Quaid in 1992 (age 32); musician/actor Jordan Fisher in 1994 (age 30); musician Kehlani Parrish in 1995 (age 29); former tennis star Ashleigh Barty in 1996 (age 28).
On this date in history:
In 1704, the Boston News-Letter became the first U.S. newspaper to be published on a regular basis.
In 1800, the U.S. Congress established the Library of Congress.
In 1913, the Woolworth Building, designed by architect Cass Gilbert, an early proponent of skyscrapers, opened to the public and its tenants.
In 1914, the Easter Rising began. Irish republicans armed themselves in rebellion against the British government. Nearly 500 people died --including more than 250 civilians -- during the six-day skirmish, and the British executed 16 rebels.
In 1957, the Suez Canal was reopened to shipping after being shut for more than five months following a conflict between Egypt, and the trio of Israel, Britain and France.
In 1980, Operation Eagle Claw, the attempt to rescue 52 embassy staff held captive in Tehran, ends with the death of eight servicemen when a helicopter crashed into a transport aircraft.
In 1983, German endurance racing driver Rolf Stommelen died during a crash at the Riverside International Raceway in California. He was 39.
In 1986, the duchess of Windsor, Wallis Warfield Simpson, for whom Britain's King Edward VIII gave up his throne, died in Paris at age 89.
In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into space from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard the space shuttle Discovery.
In 1996, the Palestinian National Council voted to drop its official commitment to the destruction of Israel.
In 2005, Benedict XVI was installed in Rome as the 265th Roman Catholic pope.
In 2013, a building that housed clothing factories collapsed in Bangladesh, killing more than 1,000 people.
In 2023, Fox News announced that its top opinion show host, Tucker Carlson, agreed to leave the network in the wake of the network settling a defamation lawsuit with Dominion Voting Systems for $787.5 million.
A thought for the day: "It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love." -- American actor Cedric the Entertainer
