Famous People Who Died on April 24Th In History

Dying is just like taxes in the respect that it is going to happen to you and me. Over history, we realize it doesn’t matter who you are, you are going to face death. Famous people have no secret weapon against death. They are just like you and I. They will die. We will die. Death is a part of life. However, many of us look forward to eternal life in Heaven. After we all pass from this world, I hope to meet each one of you in a better place called Heaven.

Today is Easter, Happy Easter

We Live And We Die

Nobody Lives Forever

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What Happened on this Day in History?

Easter- Easter, the preeminent feast that celebrates the resurrection of Jesus, is clearly the earliest Christian festival. Since the earliest Christian times, it has focused on the redemptive act of God in the death and resurrection of Christ-The New Testament teaches that the resurrection of Jesus is a foundation of the Christian faith

1704 – The first regular newspaper in the United States, the News-Letter, is published in Boston, Massachusetts

1898 – The Spanish-American War: The United States declares war on Spain

1907 – Hershey Park, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened, this was an excellent park to visit if you love chocolate

1916 – Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship Endurance

2005 – Snuppy, the world’s first cloned dog is born in South Korea

Deaths

1711-1779 – Eleazar Wheelock, American founder of Dartmouth College

1719-1794 – Axel von Fersen the Elder, Swedish statesman and soldier; father of Axel von Fersen the Younger

1863-1938 – George Grey Barnard, American sculptor

1873-1947 – Willa Cather was an American author who achieved recognition for her novels of frontier life on the Great Plains, in works such as O Pioneers!,  My Ántonia, and The Song of the Lark. In 1923 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for One of Ours (1922), a novel set during World War I

1882-1957 – Harry McClintock, American country singer and hobo

1895-1974 – Bud Abbott, American actor and comedian, half of the Abbot and Costello Comedy Act

1922-1997 – Eugene Stoner,is the man most associated with the design of the AR-15, which was adopted by the US military as the M16. He is regarded by most historians, along with John Browning and John Garand, as one of the United States’ most successful military firearms designers of the 20th century

1922-2001 – Leon Sullivan, African-American civil rights leader and pastor

1927-2007 – Roy Jenson is Remembered by many as the first man beaten up by Caine on the television show Kung Fu

Today is Easter, Happy Easter

This is series of famous people who died was inspired by Faye Farley who writes about famous people who were born on the same dates. Each day I will make a list of the famous people who died on the particular day with a link to her story about who was born on a particular day. Today’s famous deaths will be linked to her September 27 story because she has not made it to October yet. Click hereto check out Faye’s writing, Today is Easter, Happy Easter

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