How many people know somebody who turned 24 today?

Answer: all of you :)

And to make this post interesting, here's what happened on my birthday, 45 years ago:

President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring the brilliant rocket designer Wernher von Braun and his team from the U.S. Army to the newly created National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Von Braun, the mastermind of the U.S. space program, had developed the lethal V-2 rocket for Nazi Germany during World War II.

I rocket.