Daily Calendar for Tuesday, April 24, 2029
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Tuesday, April 24, 2029
Born
- Robert B. Thomas (founder of The Old Farmer’s Almanac) –
- Robert Penn Warren (poet) –
- Shirley MacLaine (actress) –
- Jill Ireland (actress) –
- Barbra Streisand (singer & actress) –
- Kelly Clarkson (singer) –
- Lydia Ko (golfer) –
Died
- Reverend Eleazar Wheelock (founded Dartmouth College) –
- Lucy Maud Montgomery (author) –
- Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov (became the first person to die during a space mission) –
- Bud Abbott (comedian & actor) –
- Estée Lauder (started a kitchen business blending face creams and built it into a multimillion-dollar international cosmetics empire) –
- Elizabeth Post (etiquette expert) –
Events
- La Marseillaise composed –
- U. S. Library of Congress established –
- The soda fountain was patented –
- Joshua Slocum left Boston on his 37-foot sloop named Spray. He arrived in Newport, Rhode Island, on June 27, 1898, becoming the first sailor to have circumnavigated the globe alone –
- Spain declared war on the United States (Spanish-American War) –
- British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II –
- Hubble space telescope launched –
- Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger inaugurated as Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He took the name Pope Benedict XVI –
Weather
- A local windstorm blew down commercial buildings and damaged ships in Galveston, Texas –