The following are events related to the Global War On Terrorism (GWOT) that took place on this day.

2003

• Tariq Aziz surrenders and is sentenced to death. He is the 8 of Spades in the Iraq’s Most Wanted Deck of Playing Cards.

2004

• The Marines presented diplomas to the last class to graduate as part of the Georgia Train and Equip program (GTEP). Special Forces soldiers started the program in 2002 and turned it over to the Marines later the same year. GTEP was established to help the former Soviet republic fend for itself and was used as a model for future military-building programs.

2007

• End of Battle of Bismarck in Iraq

Casualties on April 24:

• JENKINS, TROY DAVID – April 24, 2003
• BRANDON, STACEY CRAIG – April 24, 2004
• BROOKS, CORY WILLIAM – April 24, 2004
• FELDER, ARTHUR LEJOHN – April 24, 2004
• KORDSMEIER, PATRICK WILLIAM – April 24, 2004
• ORTON, BILLY JOE – April 24, 2004
• PERNASELLI, MICHAEL JOSEPH – April 24, 2004
• WATTS, CHRISTOPHER EUGENE – April 24, 2004
• DEFAZIO, ROBERT WILLIAM – April 24, 2005
• WALTERS, GARY WAYNE JR – April 24, 2005
• BANDONILL, METODIO AMBONI – April 24, 2006
• MONTEITH, ALEXANDER YOUNG – April 24, 2006
• SIMONS, AARON WILLIAM – April 24, 2006
• MARESH, JEREMY EUGENE – April 24, 2007
• WHITEHEAD, SHAUN JEFFREY – April 24, 2008
• MOORE, BENJAMIN JR – April 24, 2009
• WICHMANN, GRANT ARTHUR – April 24, 2010
• DAY, DAVID PIRIE – April 24, 2011
• HUGHES, BRADLEY SCOTT – April 24, 2011
• JACKSON, JOE MICHAEL – April 24, 2011
• VASQUEZ, MANUEL JOSEPH – April 24, 2012