October 24

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

Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays

Events

69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
1648 - Peace of Westphalia signed. End of Thirty Years' War
1795 - Poland is divided between Austria, Prussia and Russia
1861 - First transcontinental telegraph line completed, ending the Pony Express
1917 - Battle of Caporetto started on the Austro-Italian front of World War I
1929 - Great Depression: "Black Thursday" - The New York Stock Exchange crashes, sparking a world-wide depression.
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia
1944 - Zuikaku Japanese aircraft carrier destroyed
1945 - Founding of the United Nations
1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
1956 - Soviet Union invades Hungary
1964 - Northern Rhodesia granted independence by UK (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
1998 - Launch of Deep Space 1 come/asteroid mission

51 - Roman emperor Domitian († 96)
1632 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, microbiologist
1788 - Sarah Hale, poet
1811 - Ferdinand Hiller, composer († 1885)
1855 - James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States
1868 - Alexandra David-Néel, French explorer, anarchist, spiritualist, buddhist and writer
1887 - Victoria Eugenia, Queen of Spain († 1969)
1891 - Molina Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic
1903 - Melvin Purvis, FBI chief († 1960)
1904 - Moss Hart, dramatist († 1961)
1915 - Bob Kane, cartoonist
1925 - Luciano Berio, Italian composer
1926 - Y. A. Tittle, American football star
1929 - George Crumb, composer
1930 - The Big Bopper (Jiles Perry Richardson, Jr.), rock and roll star († 1959)
1931 - Sofia Gubaidulina, composer
1936 - Bill Wyman, musician (the Rolling Stones)
1939 - F. Murray Abraham, actor
1948 - Kweisi Mfume, American civil rights activist. Congressman from Maryland
1960 - Ian Baker-Finch, golf champion
1961 - Mary Bono, Congresswoman from California
1962 - B.D. Wong, actor
1985 - Wayne Rooney, English football star

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