Tuesday 24 April 2018, 21:48:11
24 April
1479 BC: Thutmosis III is crowned the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty, according to the Low Chronology of ancient Egypt.
24 April
1002: The body of Cornish saint Ivo of Ramsey, found the previous year by a peasant while ploughing his land in Cambridgeshire, is translated to the newly established Ramsey Abbey.
24 April
1254: Bishop Geoffroy de Loudon consecrates the enlarged choir of Le Mans Cathedral in France.
24 April
1533: William of Orange, leader of the Dutch independence war against Spain, is born in Dillenburg.
24 April
1731: Daniel Defoe, English writer who popularised the English novel, dies, probably while in hiding from his creditors, aged around 70.
24 April
1947: The first synchrotron light is seen at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, New York.
24 April
1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Discovery space shuttle.