2023-04-24 21:08:39
The following happened today
Facts
1719
Robinson Crusoe takes on “flesh and bones” from the pen of the English writer Daniel Defoe.
1850
Paul Julius von Reuter, founder of the Archyde.com news agency, uses 40 pigeons to convey the closing prices of the stock market to his clients.
1859
Work begins on the opening of the Suez Canal.
1915
New Zealand and Australian forces attempt to land on the Turkish shores of Gallipoli, in the context of the First World War.
1953
Scientists Francis Crick and James Watson publish their groundbreaking work on the chemical structure of DNA. For their discovery, which was characterized as the greatest of the 20th century, they will be honored with the Nobel Prize in 1962.
1974
The Carnation Revolution in Portugal. The military re-establishes the Republic, following half a century of dictatorship.
Births
1874
Guglielmo Marconi, Italian engineer, inventor of wireless radio transmission. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1909. (D. 20/7/1937)
1940
Al Pacino, American actor.
1947
Johan Cruyff, Dutch football player. (Thu. 24/3/2016)
Deaths
1744
Anders Kelsius, Swedish astronomer, inventor of the eponymous temperature measurement scale. (Born 27/11/1701)
1940
Wilhelm Derpfeld, German archaeologist, who participated in the excavations of Olympia of Mycenae and Troy. (Born 26/12/1853)
1994
Georgios Gennimatas, Greek MP and minister, one of the founding members of PASOK. (Born 30/6/1939)
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