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Thursday, April 24, 2025 falls on a Thursday. It is day 114 of the year, ISO week 17, in Q2.

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Thursday, April 24

April 24, 2025 is day 114 of 365, ISO week 17, in Q2. The moon is Waning Crescent and the zodiac sign is Taurus.

Day of year114
ISO week17
QuarterQ2
Days left251

Sun and Moon Cycles

Moon phase
Waning Crescent
Lunar age
26.2 days
Illumination
12%
Season
Spring in the Northern Hemisphere, autumn in the Southern Hemisphere

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Taurus
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Today's Celebrations

April 24
Observance Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day (Armenia, California, France)
Observance Benedict Menni
Observance Dermot of Armagh
Observance Dyfnan of Anglesey
Observance Ecgberht of Ripon
Observance Elizabeth Hesselblad
Observance Fidelis of Sigmaringen
Observance Gregory of Elvira

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Thursday, April 24, 2025 combines practical calendar facts with a wider view of the day: 2013: A building in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,134 people, making it the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern history.. Use it to check the date, plan across time zones, and scan the observances and historical markers attached to April 24.

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A building in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh, collapsed, killing 1,134 people, making it the deadliest accidental structural failure in modern history.

Secret documents relating to detainees at the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camp were released on WikiLeaks and several independent news organizations.

A backhoe breached a pipeline in Toronto, Canada, which caused a gas explosion that killed seven people.

The Provisional Irish Republican Army detonated a truck bomb in London's financial district in Bishopsgate, killing one person, injuring forty-four others, and causing damage that cost £350 million to repair.

Gruinard Island in Scotland, the site of biological warfare testing by British scientists, was declared free of anthrax after 48 years of quarantine.

The Hubble Space Telescope was launched aboard STS-31 by Space Shuttle Discovery.

Eight U.S. servicemen died in Operation Eagle Claw, a failed attempt to rescue the captives in the Iran hostage crisis.

Cold War: The Dominican Civil War broke out due to tensions following a military coup against the democratically elected government of President Juan Bosch two years earlier.

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