Below are 5 interesting facts about April 24 in Kansas history:

1. In 1913, the Kansas City Athletics baseball team played their first game in the newly-built Ewing Park stadium in Wichita, Kansas.

2. On April 24, 1862, Union forces under General James G. Blunt clashed with Confederate forces led by General Albert Pike at the Battle of Pea Ridge in Arkansas, which had significant impact on the outcome of the Civil War.

3. The deadliest tornado outbreak in Kansas history occurred on April 24, 2007, when 20 tornadoes touched down, killing 14 people and causing widespread devastation across the state.

4. On April 24, 1955, a tornado struck the city of Udall, Kansas, killing 80 people and injuring over 200 others. The tornado ranks as the deadliest in Kansas history, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history.

5. In 1884, Asa Hutchinson, who would later become governor of Arkansas, was born in Pine Bluff, Kansas. Hutchinson served as the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Arkansas before being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996.