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Events in April 2024 26
1929 – 2024Peter Higgs (1929-2024)Died 8 April 2024, aged 94British physicist awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physics for predicting the particle that bears his name.
1930 – 2024Faith Ringgold (1930-2024)Died 13 April 2024, aged 93American artist and author whose narrative story quilts carried her political convictions.
1930 – 2024John Barth (1930-2024)Died 2 April 2024, aged 93American writer whose novels combined philosophical complexity with bawdy satire.
1931 – 2024Robert MacNeil (1931-2024)Died 12 April 2024, aged 93Canadian-born journalist who co-anchored the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS.
1931 – 2024Whitey Herzog (1931-2024)Died 15 April 2024, aged 92American baseball manager who led the St Louis Cardinals to the 1982 World Series.
1932 – 2024Robert H. Dennard (1932-2024)Died 23 April 2024, aged 91American engineer who invented the one-transistor DRAM cell, the basis of modern computer memory.
1934 – 2024Maryse Conde (1934-2024)Died 2 April 2024, aged 90Guadeloupean author of epic historical fiction, much of it set in Africa.
1936 – 2024Eleanor Coppola (1936-2024)Died 12 April 2024, aged 87American artist and documentarian whose Hearts of Darkness chronicled the making of Apocalypse Now.
1938 – 2024Duane Eddy (1938-2024)Died 30 April 2024, aged 86American guitarist responsible for twang, one of rock music's elemental sounds.
1940 – 2024Roberto Cavalli (1940-2024)Died 12 April 2024, aged 83Italian fashion designer known for glamorous, animal-print clothing.
1941 – 2024Mike Pinder (1941-2024)Died 24 April 2024, aged 82British musician and founding member of the Moody Blues.
1942 – 2024Daniel C. Dennett (1942-2024)Died 19 April 2024, aged 82American philosopher of mind and prominent figure in the new atheism, author of Consciousness Explained.
1943 – 2024Dickey Betts (1943-2024)Died 18 April 2024, aged 80American guitarist of the Allman Brothers Band, who wrote Ramblin' Man.
1947 – 2024O.J. Simpson (1947-2024)Died 10 April 2024, aged 76American footballer whose 1995 murder trial became the most watched criminal case in American history. He was acquitted of the killings of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
1947 – 2024Paul Auster (1947-2024)Died 30 April 2024, aged 77American novelist whose New York Trilogy and later work turned detective form into a search for identity.
1947 – 2024Terry Anderson (1947-2024)Died 21 April 2024, aged 76American journalist kidnapped in Beirut and held hostage for more than six years.
1951 – 2024Muhammed Faris (1951-2024)Died 19 April 2024, aged 72Syrian pilot and air force officer, the first Syrian citizen to travel into space.
2024IBM acquires HashiCorp for $6.4 billionIBM announces the acquisition of HashiCorp — maker of Terraform, the leading infrastructure-as-code platform — for $6.4 billion in April 2024. HashiCorp's tools are used by hundreds of thousands of developers to manage cloud infrastructure across AWS, Azure and Google Cloud. The acquisition strengthens IBM's hybrid cloud platform and gives Red Hat deeper integration with the developer toolchains that manage modern cloud infrastructure. IBM continues to build out its hybrid cloud ecosystem through acquisitions.
2024The Movie Critic is scrappedThe tenth film, abandonedTarantino cancels his announced tenth and final film weeks before production. He later explains that he had set himself the challenge of making the most boring profession in the world interesting, and that the script, while good, felt like ground he had already walked. Brad Pitt had been attached to star. What the tenth film will be is now an open question.
2024Total solar eclipse crosses North AmericaTotality from Mexico through the United States to CanadaA total solar eclipse crossed North America on 8 April 2024, with the path of totality running from Mexico through Texas and the Midwest into eastern Canada. It was the last such eclipse over the contiguous United States until 2044.
2024Amy Winehouse biopic Back to Black releasedMarisa AbelaA biopic directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson.
2024Iran launches its first direct attack on IsraelMore than 300 drones and missiles, almost all interceptedIran launched more than 300 drones and missiles directly at Israel on 13 April 2024, its first direct attack from Iranian soil. Almost all were intercepted by Israel and its allies.
2024India begins the world's largest electionNearly a billion voters over six weeksIndia began voting in its general election on 19 April 2024, a six-week process involving nearly a billion eligible voters. Results on 4 June returned Narendra Modi for a third term, but without a parliamentary majority for the BJP.
2024Pearl Jam release Dark MatterTwelfth albumProduced by Andrew Watt.
20242024 World Snooker ChampionshipWilson’s FirstWinner: Kyren Wilson; Runner-up: Jak Jones. Score: 18–14.
2024TikTok divest-or-ban law signed in the United StatesByteDance ordered to sell or face a banPresident Joe Biden signed legislation on 24 April 2024 requiring ByteDance to divest TikTok's US operations or face a ban, setting up a prolonged legal fight.