Page 2: Historical Events In April - 24
Saturday, 18 January 2025
1766 On April - 24 robert Bailey Thomas, founder (Farmer's Almanac)
1769 On this day in history arthur Wellesley, General/Duke of Wellington
1773 Harman W Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director on this day in history.
1776 On April - 24 carolus van de Abeele, Flemish Jesuit, dies at 84
1791 Nikolaj A Bestuzhev, Russia, writer/painter (Account about Holland) on April - 24.
1792 "La Marseillaise" composed by Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisle on April - 24.
1792 On April - 24 "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 On April - 24 library of Congress established with $5,000 allocation
1800 Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation on this day in history.
1801 1st performance of Joseph Haydn's oratorio "Die Jahreszeiten" on this day in history.
1804 On this day in history thomas Oliver Selfridge, Comm (Union Navy)
1807 Charles Ferguson Smith, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862 on this day in history.
1814 Angela Burdett-Coutts, philanthropist extrordinaire on this day in history.
1815 Anthony Trollope, England, novelist/poet (Barchester Towers) on April - 24.
1822 Erastus Barnard Tyler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers) on April - 24.
1823 Eugene Scribes "Le Menteur Veridique," premieres in Paris on April - 24.
1824 Fournier, Swiss/French postage stamp forger on April - 24.
1824 Herman Muntinghe, theologist (History of Mankind), dies at 71 on this day in history.
1827 On this day in history pierre Joseph Candielle, composer, dies at 82
1828 Robert Brank Vance, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1899 on this day in history.
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 April - 24.
1833 On April - 24 patent granted for first soda fountain
1833 Jacob Evert & George Dulty patent soda fountain on this day in history.
1836 Jeltje de Bosch Kemper, Dutch feminist on this day in history.
1837 On April - 24 friedrich von Holstein, German diplomat (die graue Eminenz)
1845 On April - 24 carl Spitteler, Switz, poet (Prometheus & Epimetheus; Nobel 1919)
1848 On April - 24 francois van Campenhout, Belgian composer (Brabanconne), dies at 69
1849 Joseph S Gallieni, general (Battle of Marne)/milt governor (Paris) on this day in history.
1850 Louis Alexandre Piccinni, composer, dies at 70 on April - 24.
1851 Eduardo Acevedo Diaz, Uruguaian writer (Ismael, Grito de Gloria) on April - 24.
1854 On April - 24 austria's Franz Joseph I marries Elisabeth A E "Sissi"
1855 Walenty Karol Kratzer, composer, dies at 75 on this day in history.
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