What day of the week was April 24, 1916?

The day of the week April 24th, 1916 fell on was a Monday.

Lou Thesz the American wrestler (d. 2002) was born on 24 April in 1916.

Easter Rising: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse the James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett starts a rebellion in Ireland. Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for the ice-trapped ship .