What is april 24 mean?

April 24 is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 251 days remaining until the end of the year.

Historically, April 24 holds significance for several events:

  • In 1915, the Armenian Genocide began in the Ottoman Empire, resulting in the mass deportation and killing of hundreds of thousands of Armenians.
  • In 1953, Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
  • In 1990, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
  • In 2013, the Rana Plaza building in Bangladesh collapsed, killing over 1,100 people in one of the deadliest industrial disasters in history.

April 24 is also the feast day of Saint George, the patron saint of England, and is celebrated in various countries and cultures around the world.