About the day » Saturday April 24, 2004Calender converter

• Yaron Doornbos, Delfzijl

• Bernardus Maria de Ruijter (70), Uitgeest
• Aileen Wagers (70), Clay Co. Kentucky
• Clara Louise Bretey (87), Chalmette, Saint Bernard, Louisiana, Verenigde Staten
• Adrianus Hendrikus Joseph Bodt (94)
• Antonius van Turnhout (93), Zevenbergen, Nederland
• Anne Been (76)
• Betty St Clair Clay BADEN-POWELL (87)
• Catharina Wilhelmina Albert (91)
• Adrianus van de Belt (88), Blaricum {NH}
• Adriana Slager (89)

• 1992 » Joe Keery, American actor
• 1992 » Laura Kenny, English cyclist
• 1993 » Ben Davies, Welsh international footballer
• 1994 » Caspar Lee, British-South African Youtuber
• 1994 » Jordan Fisher, American singer, dancer, and actor
• 1996 » Ashleigh Barty, Australian tennis player
• 1997 » Lydia Ko, New Zealand golfer
• 1997 » Veronika Kudermetova, Russian tennis player
• 1998 » Ryan Newman, American actress
• 1999 » Jerry Jeudy, American football player

• 2001 » Johnny Valentine, American wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2001 » Josef Peters, German race car driver (b. 1914)
• 2002 » Lucien Wercollier, Luxembourgian sculptor (b. 1908)
• 2004 » Estée Lauder, American businesswoman, co-founded Estée Lauder Companies (b. 1906)
• 2004 » José Giovanni, French-Swiss director and producer (b. 1923)
• 2005 » Ezer Weizman, Israeli general and politician, 7th President of Israel (b. 1924)
• 2005 » Fei Xiaotong, Chinese sociologist and academic (b. 1910)
• 2006 » Brian Labone, English footballer (b. 1940)
• 2006 » Moshe Teitelbaum, Romanian-American rabbi and author (b. 1914)
• 2008 » Jimmy Giuffre, American clarinet player, and saxophonist, and composer (b. 1921)

• Koningin Beatrix (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from April 30, 1980 till April 30, 2013 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Tuesday, May 27, 2003 to Friday, July 7, 2006 the cabinet Balkenende II, with Mr.dr. J.P. Balkenende (CDA) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 16.3 million citizens.
• January 4 » Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.
• May 2 » The Yelwa massacre concludes. It began on 4 February 2004 when armed Muslims killed 78 Christians at Yelwa. In response, about 630 Muslims were killed by Christians on May 2nd.
• May 28 » The Iraqi Governing Council chooses Ayad Allawi, a longtime anti-Saddam Hussein exile, as prime minister of Iraq's interim government.
• September 15 » National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman announces lockout of the players' union and cessation of operations by the NHL head office.
• November 19 » The Malice at the Palace: The worst brawl in NBA history, Ron Artest suspended 86 games (rest of season), Stephen Jackson suspended 30 games.
• December 31 » The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670ft).

The temperature on April 24, 2004 was between 4.5 °C and 16.4 °C and averaged 10.4 °C. There was -0.1 mm of rain. There was 5.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The partly clouded was. The average windspeed was 1 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the northwest.