Today in History for 24th April 2017:
Historical Events
1524 – Duke of Bourbon drives Admiral Bonnivet out of Milan
1884 – National Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 – Mauritius becomes a member state of the United Nations.
1970 – People’s Republic of China launches its 1st satellite transmitting song “East is Red”
1974 – Dutch women hockey team becomes world champion
Famous Birthdays
1742 – Roman Hoffstetter, composer
1824 – Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger
1874 – Willem E Roelofs, Dutch painter/cartoonist
1914 – Justin Wilson, cajun chef (Wise Potato Chips)
1932 – Vladimir Yengibaryan, Yerevan, Armenia, welterweight boxer (Olympic gold, 1956), (d. 2013)
1945 – Doug Clifford, rock drummer (Creedence Clearwater Revival-Proud Mary)
Famous Deaths
1936 – Bernard van Dieren, composer, dies at 51
1945 – Hubert Bath, composer, dies at 61
1945 – Anton de Kom, Suriname resistance fighter, dies at 47
1952 – Jules Poncelet, Belgian minister of State, dies at 82
1961 – Lee Moran, actor (Circus Clown), dies of heart ailment at 72
1991 – J de Graaf, ethicus/president church and peace, dies