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Current events/2024 April 16. Ismail Yusuf Baz, commander of Hezbollah 's coastal sector is assassinated with one civilian killed in Ain Ebel, Lebanon, in an Israeli airstrike. (Israel Defense Forces) (Middle East Monitor)
2024 Hualien earthquake. A magnitude 7.4 earthquake strikes off the coast of Taiwan, prompting tsunami warnings for Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. A large section of the uninhabited Guishan Island collapses into the ocean. Nine people are killed in Taiwan, including four by rockfalls, with more than 930 others injured.
April 16 is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) ... 2024 – Bob Graham, American lawyer, author, and politician, 38th governor of Florida (b. 1936) [70]
April 1 – Israel attacks the Iranian embassy in Damascus, killing 16 people. [67] April 3 – A powerful earthquake with a magnitude of 7.4 strikes off the eastern coast of Taiwan, with small tsunamis reaching heights of 20–30 cm (8–12 in) hitting Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. [68] April 4 – The 2024 Kuwaiti general election is held. [69]
The 2024 Atlantic hurricane season is the ongoing Atlantic hurricane season in the Northern Hemisphere. The season officially began on June 1, and will end on November 30. These dates, adopted by convention, historically describe the period in each year when most subtropical or tropical cyclogenesis occurs in the Atlantic Ocean.
2024 CrowdStrike incident. Multiple blue screens of death caused by a faulty software update on baggage carousels at LaGuardia Airport, New York City. Date. 19 July 2024. Location. Worldwide. Type. IT outage, computer crash.
On 13 April 2024, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), a branch of the Iranian Armed Forces, in collaboration with the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, [3] Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, and the Ansar Allah (Houthis), launched retaliatory attacks against Israel and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights [note 2] with loitering munitions, cruise missiles, and ballistic missiles. [14]
This page documents all tornadoes confirmed by various weather forecast offices of the National Weather Service in the United States for April 2024. Tornado counts are considered preliminary until final publication in the database of the National Centers for Environmental Information. [1]