About the day » Wednesday April 24, 1974Calender converter

• Cesar Augusto Salem Monteiro, Itapetininga, São Paulo, Brasil († 1974)
• Alexandre Amorim Silva Neto, Recife, Pernambuco, Brasil († 1974)
• Saskia Leeflang, Rotterdam († 2013)
• Saskia Leeflang, Rotterdanm / Overschie Zuid-Holland Nederland († 2013)

• Adriana Maria Cornelia Mandigers (78), Eindhoven
• -Aimé Emile Joseph CODEVELLE (66), Boyaval
• Casper John Niemann (77)
• Albertus Willemsen (70), Amsterdam
• Berend Punter (86), Harlingen
• Anthonius Jacobus Cornelis Schuman (72), zwolle
• Cornelis van Ekeris (84), Den Haag, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Cornelis Marines Lammers van Toorenburg (71), Wageningen
• Alexandra van Maltitz (65), Wenen
• Clarence Albert Tapp (73), Launceton, Tasmania

• 1973 » Brian Marshall, American bass player and songwriter
• 1973 » Damon Lindelof, American screenwriter and producer
• 1973 » Eric Snow, American basketball player and coach
• 1973 » Gabby Logan, English gymnast, television and radio host
• 1973 » Lee Westwood, English golfer
• 1973 » Sachin Tendulkar, Indian cricketer
• 1973 » Toomas Tohver, Estonian footballer
• 1974 » Eric Kripke, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1974 » Stephen Wiltshire, English illustrator
• 1975 » Dejan Savić, Yugoslavian and Serbian water polo player

• 1966 » Simon Chikovani, Georgian poet and author (b. 1902)
• 1967 » Robert Richards, Australian politician, 32nd Premier of South Australia (b. 1885)
• 1967 » Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and astronaut (b. 1927)
• 1968 » Walter Tewksbury, American athlete (b. 1876)
• 1970 » Otis Spann, American singer and pianist (b. 1930)
• 1972 » Fernando Amorsolo, Filipino painter (b. 1892)
• 1974 » Bud Abbott, American comedian and producer (b. 1895)
• 1975 » Pete Ham, Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1947)
• 1976 » Mark Tobey, American-Swiss painter and educator (b. 1890)
• 1980 » Alejo Carpentier, Swiss-Cuban musicologist and author (b. 1904)

1. Jan
2. Mark
3. Johannes
4. Peter
5. Jeroen
6. Michael
7. Patrick
8. Richard
9. David
10. Robert
11. Marcel
12. Marco
13. Pieter
14. Dennis
15. Johan
16. Edwin

1. Maria
2. Sandra
3. Monique
4. Patricia
5. Johanna
6. Cindy
7. Esther
8. Bianca
9. Wendy
10. Ingrid
11. Anna
12. Nicole
13. Jolanda
14. Linda
15. Miranda
16. Saskia

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Friday, May 11, 1973 to Monday, December 19, 1977 the cabinet Den Uyl, with Drs. J.M. den Uyl (PvdA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 13.5 million citizens.
• April 1 » The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
• May 30 » The Airbus A300 passenger aircraft first enters service.
• August 9 » As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.
• October 30 » The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Zaire.
• November 13 » Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.
• December 8 » A plebiscite results in the abolition of monarchy in Greece.

The temperature on April 24, 1974 was between 3.4 °C and 12.8 °C and averaged 7.9 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 9.6 hours of sunshine (66%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the north.