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24 April 2018 at a glance
- Day of the week
- 24 April 2018 was a Tuesday.
- Irish Chart Song in 2018
- The Irish chart song for 2018 was “Girls Like You” by Maroon 5 ft. Cardi B.
- Top Film of 2018
- The highest-grossing film worldwide released in 2018 was Avengers: Infinity War.
- Star sign
- The star sign for 24 April is Taurus.
- Chinese zodiac
- In the Chinese zodiac, 24 April 2018 fell in the Year of the Dog.
- Birthstone
- The birthstone for April is Diamond.
- Moon phase
- The moon phase on 24 April 2018 was Waxing Gibbous.
On this day: 24 April
- 1990 STS-31: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from the Space Shuttle Discovery.
- 1994 A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive.
- 2004 The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
- 2005 Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
- 2011 WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
Famous people born on 24 April
- Shirley MacLaine, American actress, singer, and dancer (born 1934)
- Kelly Clarkson, American singer-songwriter, talk show host (born 1982)
- Barbra Streisand, American singer, actress, activist, and producer (born 1942)
- Jack Quaid, American actor (born 1992)
Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Events of 2018 in Ireland
A selection from Wikipedia's '2018 in Ireland'. Not a complete list.
- 28 February – Met Éireann issued a red weather warning, its most severe alert, for all of Munster and Leinster as the Beast from the East weather event arrived.
- 26 April – CervicalCheck cancer scandal: The Health Service Executive (HSE) confirmed that 206 women developed cervical cancer after having a misdiagnosed smear in the free national screening programme.
- 8 May – Ryan O'Shaughnessy takes Ireland to its first Eurovision final since 2013, with the song "Together".
Life in Ireland in 2018
Taoiseach
Leo Varadkar
Petrol (per litre)
€1.48/L
Loaf of Bread
€1.60
Average House
€295,000
Weekly Wage
€520
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