Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/April 24
April 24: Republic Day in the Gambia (1970)
- 1792 - La Marseillaise, the national anthem of France, was composed.
- 1800 - The U.S. Library of Congress was founded.
- 1916 - Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood started a rebellion in Ireland.
- 1967 - The Soyuz 1 spacecraft crashed in Siberia, killing cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov.
- 1990 - The space shuttle Discovery lifted off with the Hubble Space Telescope aboard.