EST. DECEMBER 1994 β’ 30+ YEARS ONLINE
yow.com π―
Owned continuously since 1994
TODAY IN HISTORY
April 24
Friday, April 24, 2026
Day 113 of 2026 | Week 17 | 246 days until Christmas π
HISTORIC EVENTS
A mass stabbing at a school in Nantes, France, leaves 1 person dead and 3 others wounded.
A building collapses near Dhaka, Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.
Violence in Bachu County, Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.
WikiLeaks starts publishing the Guantanamo Bay files leak.
Bombings in the Egyptian resort city of Dahab kill 23 people and injure about 80.
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
The United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
In the United States, the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.
A Douglas DC-3 ditches in Botany Bay after takeoff from Sydney Airport. All 25 people on board survive.
An IRA bomb devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
Greek soccer goalkeeper (47 caps; Pontioi Veria
American actress (Days of Our Lives
American drummer (Spin Doctors - "Little Miss Can't Be Wrong")
Kosovan politician
American actress (Superboy - "Lana Lang")
American baseball pitcher (MLB All Star & AL saves leader 2000; Houston Astros
Croatian basketball player (Boston Celtics)
Venezuelan shortstop (Seattle Mariners
American drummer (Hole
Italian footballer
Indian cricketer (Indian off-spinner 1989)
French tennis star
French Canadian humorist and actor (Bye Bye
MLB infielder (NY Yankees
South Korean actor (Horse Doctor
π― yow.com Connection
On March 9, 1994 - just months before yow.com would be registered - the internet was still in its infancy. There were only about 3,000 websites in existence, and most people accessed the web through 14.4kbps dial-up modems. Today, you're visiting a domain that has survived 30+ years of that incredible evolution.
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