Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/April/April 24

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 only German candidate so far to win the Eurovision Song Contest