April 24th

National Day

• Scream Day
• Pigs In A Blanket Day

Birthdays

• Jean Paul Gaultier, fashion designer
• Stuart Pearce, football coach
• Aidan Gillen (Murphy) actor
• Gabby Logan, broadcaster
• Kelly Clarkson, singer/TV host
• Ben Howard, singer-songwriter

On This Day

• 1900 – The first issue of the newspaper the Daily Express. It was founded by Arthur Pearson.
• 1906 – William Joyce, British traitor and Nazi propagandist (‘Lord Haw-Haw’) was born.
• 1916 – In Dublin, Irish nationalists, led by Patrick Pearse, launched the Easter Rebellion against British rule.
• 1932 – A mass trespass by thousands of ramblers, led by Benny Rothman, took place on Kinder Scout in the Peak District. Their aim was to establish public right of access on the moors and mountains that were privately owned for grouse shooting.The mass trespass started at Bowden Bridge Quarry, close to Hayfield and had a far-reaching impact that culminated in the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 which gave people ‘the right to roam’ on mapped access land.
• 1953 – Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.
• 1957 – English astronomer Patrick Moore presented the first broadcast of The Sky at Night, on BBC television.
• 1963 – Princess Alexandra (the youngest grand daughter of King George V) married the Honourable Angus Ogilvy at Westminster Abbey.
• 1965 – The official opening of the Pennine Way, a 256 mile path along the Pennine Hills from The Old Nag’s Head at Edale in Derbyshire to ‘The Border’ at Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border. The opening ceremony was held at Malham Moor, North Yorkshire.
• 1982 – A crewman of a Sea King helicopter on its way to the Falklands Islands was missing and presumed dead after the aircraft crashed. Petty Officer Kevin Stuart Casey was the first casualty of the Falklands war against Argentina.
• 1989 – British jockey Peter Scudamore became the first National Hunt jockey in Britain to ride 200 winners in a season.
• 1993 – A massive bomb ripped through the the City of London, killing one and injuring more than 40.
• 2011 – The opening of Brockholes, Lancashire Wildlife Trust’s (LWT) a floating wildlife and wetland centre near Samlesbury. Apart from common bird species, the site is home to birds including Lapwings, Sand Martins and Kingfishers as well as more vulnerable species such as Whimbrels and Skylarks.
• 2014 – Yorkshire Sculpture Park, located at West Bretton won the £100,000 Art Fund Museum of the Year prize and was hailed as ‘one of the finest outdoor museums one might ever imagine.

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