Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/April/April 24
Appearance
- 1889 - Birth of resistance fighter Johanna Kirchner
- 1918 - Birth of oceanographer and ecologist Elisabeth Mann-Borgese
- 1960 - Death of physicist Max von Laue, recipient of the 1914 Nobel Prize in Physics
- 1964 - Death of bacteriologist and pathologist Gerhard Domagk, who declined the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine under pressure of Nazi authorities
- 1974 - East German spy Günter Guillaume is arrested
- 1982 - Nicole becomes the first German candidate to win the Eurovision Song Contest