On this day — April 24

France, leaves 1 person dead and 3 others wounded.

Bangladesh, killing 1,134 people and injuring about 2,500 others.

Kashgar Prefecture, of China's Xinjiang results in death of 21 people.

as a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.

the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 is passed into law.

All 25 people on board survive.

Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax disease after 48 years of quarantine.

dies after being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration against a National Front election meeting in Southall, London.

becoming the fifth nation to put an object into orbit using its own booster.