April 24th in history
April 24th
On This Day - 24th April1558Mary Queen of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, married the French Dauphin at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
1953Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1957English astronomer Patrick Moore presented the first broadcast of The Sky at Night, on BBC television.
1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. Its orbit outside the distortion of Earth's atmosphere allows it to take extremely high-resolution images with negligible background light. However its first images would indicate a serious problem with its optical system leading to a mission by Shuttle Endeavour in December 1993 to install corrective optics.
1982 27th Eurovision Song Contest: Nicole for Germany wins singing "Ein bißchen Frieden" in Harrogate.
Pepys
Monday 24 April 1665
Up and with Creed in Sir W. Batten’s coach to White Hall. Sir W. Batten and I to the Duke of Albemarle, where very busy. Then I to Creed’s chamber, where I received with much ado my two orders about receiving Povy’s monies and answering his credits, and it is strange how he will preserve his constant humour of delaying all business that comes before him.
Thence he and I to London to my office, and back again to my Lady Sandwich’s to dinner, where my wife by agreement.
On This Day - 24th April1558Mary Queen of Scots, also known as Mary Stuart or Mary I of Scotland, married the French Dauphin at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
1953Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
1957English astronomer Patrick Moore presented the first broadcast of The Sky at Night, on BBC television.
1990: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery. Its orbit outside the distortion of Earth's atmosphere allows it to take extremely high-resolution images with negligible background light. However its first images would indicate a serious problem with its optical system leading to a mission by Shuttle Endeavour in December 1993 to install corrective optics.
1982 27th Eurovision Song Contest: Nicole for Germany wins singing "Ein bißchen Frieden" in Harrogate.
Pepys
Monday 24 April 1665
Up and with Creed in Sir W. Batten’s coach to White Hall. Sir W. Batten and I to the Duke of Albemarle, where very busy. Then I to Creed’s chamber, where I received with much ado my two orders about receiving Povy’s monies and answering his credits, and it is strange how he will preserve his constant humour of delaying all business that comes before him.
Thence he and I to London to my office, and back again to my Lady Sandwich’s to dinner, where my wife by agreement.
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