Page 2: Historical Events In April - 24
Tuesday, 18 February 2025
1766 On this day in history robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac)
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 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 "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle on this day in history.
1792 On this day in history "La Marseillaise", which later becomes the French national anthem, composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle
1796 On April - 24 k L Immermann, writer
1800 Library of Congress established with $5,000 allocation on April - 24.
1800 Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation on April - 24.
1801 On April - 24 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten"
1804 Thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy) on April - 24.
1807 On this day in history charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1814 Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire on this day in history.
1815 Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers) on this day in history.
1822 Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on this day in history.
1823 On this day in history eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique," premieres in Paris
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 Pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82 on this day in history.
1828 On April - 24 robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899
1829 George Peabody Estey, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1881 on this day in history.
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 April - 24 patent granted for first soda fountain
1833 On this day in history jacob Evert & George Dulty patent soda fountain
1836 Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist on this day in history.
1837 Friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz) on April - 24.
1845 Carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919) on this day in history.
1848 On this day in history francois van Campenhout, Belgian composer (Brabanconne), dies at 69
1849 On this day in history joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris)
1850 On this day in history louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70
1851 Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria) on this day in history.
1854 On April - 24 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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