October 24

October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining.

Contents

1.1 1-1899
1.2 1900-1999
1.3 2000-2099

2.1 1-1899
2.2 1900-1999

3.1 900-1899
3.2 1900-1999
3.3 2000-2099

4 Holidays and observations

Events

1-1899

69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
1360 - The Treaty of Brétigny was ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
1648 - Peace of Westphalia signed. End of Thirty Years' War
1795 - Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth was completely divided between Austria, Prussia and Russia
1812 - Battle of Maloyaroslavets
1861 - First transcontinental telegraph line completed, ending the Pony Express

1900-1999

1917 - Battle of Caporetto started on the Austro-Italian front of World War I
1929 - "Black Thursday" crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1930 - A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousted Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was then installed as "provisional president."
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia
1944 - Zuikaku Japanese aircraft carrier destroyed
1945 - Founding of the United Nations
1947 - Walt Disney testifies to the House Unamerican Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
1955 - The body of Manolo Just, a probable bisexual, is found in the Mexico apartment of Mary Rogers, daughter of Will Rogers. Homicide is suspected, but never proven.
1956 - Soviet Union invades Hungary
1960 - An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baykonur space facility, killing 165. Among the dead is field marshall Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.
1964 - Northern Rhodesia gained independence from the United Kingdom and became the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony)
1970 - Salvador Allende elected President of Chile
1973 - Yom Kippur War ends
1980 - Government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union
1989 - Televangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 45 years in prison and a 500,000 USD fine for defrauding investors of 3.7 million USD.
1998 - Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
1998 - Tropical Storm Mitch reached hurricane strength.

2000-2099

2002 - Police arrested spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
2003 - Concorde made its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic transport to a close, at least for the time being.

Births

1-1899

51 - Roman emperor Domitian (d. 96)
1632 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, microbiologist (d.1723)
1788 - Sarah Hale, poet (d.1879)
1811 - Ferdinand Hiller, composer (d. 1885)
1855 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States (d.1912)
1868 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, buddhist and writer (d.1969)
1887 - Victoria Eugenia, Queen of Spain (d. 1969)
1891 - Rafael Molina-Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic

1900-1999

1903 - Melvin Purvis, FBI chief (d. 1960)
1904 - Moss Hart, dramatist (d. 1961)
1909 - Bill Carr, American athlete (d.1966)
1915 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (d. 1984)
1915 - Bob Kane, cartoonist and creator of Batman (d.1998)
1925 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d.2003)
1926 - Y. A. Tittle, American football star
1927 - Jean-Claude Pascal, French singer, Eurovision Song Contest winner (d.1992)
1929 - George Crumb, composer
1929 - Yordan Radichkov, Bulgarian writer and playwright
1930 - The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.), rock and roll star (d. 1959)
1931 - Sofia Gubaidulina, composer
1936 - Bill Wyman, musician (the Rolling Stones)
1939 - F. Murray Abraham, Academy Award-winning actor
1947 - Kevin Kline, Academy Award-winning actor
1948 - Kweisi Mfume, American civil rights activist. Congressman from Maryland
1960 - Ian Baker-Finch, golf champion
1961 - Mary Bono, United States House of Representatives from California
1962 - B.D. Wong, actor
1972 - Pat Williams, American football player
1981 - Tila Nguyen, model
1985 - Wayne Rooney, English football star

Deaths

900-1899

996 - King Hugh Capet of France
1672 - John Webb, architect
1799 - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf, composer
1821 - Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress
1852 - Daniel Webster, lawyer and politician
1898 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter

1900-1999

1912 - Mykola Lysenko, composer
1944 - Louis Renault, automobile manufacturer, Nazi collaborator
1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian politician and famous traitor
1948 - Franz Lehár, composer
1957 - Christian Dior, an influential French fashion designer (b. 1905)
1971 - Carl Ruggles, composer
1972 - Jackie Robinson, member of the Baseball Hall of Fame
1974 - David Oistrakh, Ukrainian violinist (b. 1908)
1991 - Gene Roddenberry, creator of the Star Trek series
1997 - Don Messick, voice actor

2000-2099

2001 - Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi
2002 - Winton M. Blount first United States Postmaster General to have served in a Presidential Cabinet
2002 - Adolph Green, American lyricist and playwright
2002 - Harry Hay, US gay rights activist and Mattachine Society founder

2004 - James Cardinal Hickey, archbishop of Washington, D.C.

Holidays and observations

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