Notable Historical Events on October 24th
October 24th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
1260 |
Saif ad-Din Qutuz, third Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, by a fellow Mamluk leader, who seizes power for himself. |
1260 |
The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. |
1360 |
The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War. |
1492 |
24 Jews are burned at the stake in Mecklenburg, Germany |
1531 |
Bavaria joins Schmalkaldische Union |
1593 |
Alleged teleportation of Spanish soldier Gil Perez from the Philippines to Mexico |
1596 |
-26] Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary & Germany |
1648 |
Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Year's War in the Holy Roman Empire; Switzerland's independence recognized |
1656 |
Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant |
1681 |
Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London |
1795 |
Third partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia |
1812 |
Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow. |
1818 |
Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his first public concert (Berlin) |
1836 |
A Phillips patents match |
1851 |
William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus |
1856 |
Constitution of South Australia adopted |
1857 |
World's first soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in Yorkshire, England |
1861 |
First US transcontinental telegram is sent (from San Francisco to Washington DC) |
1861 |
West Virginia seceded from Virginia |
1871 |
Mob in Los Angeles hangs 18 Chinese |
1881 |
Levi P Morton, US ambasador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty |
1882 |
Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis |
1885 |
Johann Strauss' operetta "Zigeunerbaron (Gypsy Baron)" premieres in Vienna |
1889 |
Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League |
1899 |
Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs British army |
1900 |
General Redvers Buller returns to England |
1901 |
First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor) |
1903 |
First trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1) |
1903 |
George Sutton becomes billards champion |
1904 |
First New York subway opens |
1908 |
Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game" |
1909 |
Italy and Russia sign the Racconigi Pact in which both nations promise to support the status quo in the Balkans |
1911 |
Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole |
1911 |
Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years. |
1913 |
Joe Tinker fired as Cin Reds manager |
1916 |
Moroccan troops capture Ft Douaumont |
1917 |
Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army |
1922 |
German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925 |
1922 |
Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State |
1923 |
Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship |
1924 |
Christian Gen Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing |
1924 |
Nobel prize for physiology/medicine awarded to W Einthoven |
1926 |
Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. |
1929 |
"Black Thursday", start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8% |
1929 |
Rudy Vallee's "The Fleishmann's Yeast Hour" begins broadcasting on NBC radio |
1929 |
Belgian princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto get engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails |
1930 |
A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as "provisional president." |
1931 |
George Washington Bridge linking New York City and New Jersey dedicated, opens the next day |
1931 |
Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion |
1932 |
British government signs trade treaty with USSR |
1933 |
Langston Hughes' "Mulatto" premieres in NYC |
1935 |
Italy invades Ethiopia [10/2] |
1935 |
Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs mgr Charlie Grimm & Chic players W English, B Jurges & B Herman for actions in World Series |
1938 |
US forbids child labor in factories |
1939 |
Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance" |
1939 |
Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up |
1939 |
Nazi require wearing of Star of David by Jews |
1939 |
Nylon stockings go on sale for first time (Wilmington, Delaware) |
1940 |
US Fair Labor Standards of 1938 comes into effect - minimum wage, 44 hr week |
1940 |
Hitler meets Marshal Pétain |
1940 |
Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball |
1940 |
Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants |
1942 |
Second day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry |
1943 |
Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting |
1944 |
Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners |
1944 |
US air raid on Japanese battleships/cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks |
1944 |
US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines |
1944 |
US capt David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Jap planes in Gulf of Leyte |
1945 |
Charter of United Nations comes into effect |
1945 |
France (PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%) |
1946 |
Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire |
1946 |
A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space. |
1947 |
Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States) |
1948 |
Bernard M Baruch introduces term "Cold War" |
1948 |
Francis Poulenc's "Sinfonietta" premieres |
1948 |
Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis |
1948 |
WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1951 |
Jan de Hartog's "Four Poster" premieres in NYC |
1951 |
United Nations publishes its first postage stamps |
1952 |
Arab Liberation Movement becomes only political party in Syria |
1953 |
KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting |
1954 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam |
1956 |
Margaret Towner becomes first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) |
1956 |
AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year |
1956 |
Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary |
1957 |
Cin Redlegs decline to move to Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City |
1957 |
The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program. |
1958 |
USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam |
1959 |
US premier of D Sjostakovitch's 1st Cello concert |
1960 |
Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash |
1961 |
"Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC for 55 perfs |
1962 |
Cuban missile crisis: US blockade of Cuba begins |
1963 |
"110 in the Shade" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 330 perfs |
1963 |
KRO shows first episode of Bonanza |
1963 |
Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award |
1964 |
"Cambridge Circus" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 perfs |
1964 |
18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan |
1964 |
Belgian paratroops liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville |
1964 |
Dr Kenneth David Kaunda becomes president of Zambia |
1964 |
Zambia (formerly Northern Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
1964 |
Khalid "Billy" Ibadulla scores 166 on Cricket debut v Australia |
1964 |
Test Cricket debut of Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan & Khalid Ibadulla v Aust |
1965 |
Benjamin Britten's "Voices for Today" premieres |
1965 |
Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament |
1968 |
Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail |
1968 |
The People's Democracy (PD) stage a protest demonstration at Stormont Parliament buildings, Belfast, Northern Ireland |
1969 |
Hanif, Mushtaq & Sadiq Mohammad start their only Test Cricket together |
1970 |
Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show |
1970 |
Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile |
1971 |
Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds) |
1971 |
Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21 |
1971 |
President of Sinn Féin Ruairi O'Brady, then (SF), address a SF Ard Fheis in Dublin, claiming that the North of Ireland must be made ungovernable as first step in achieving a united Ireland |
1971 |
A member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) is shot dead by undercover Royal Ulster Constabulary officers during a bomb attack in Belfast |
1972 |
2 Catholic men are found dead at a farm at Aughinahinch, near Newtownbbutler, County Fermanagh - British soldiers carry out the killings |
1973 |
Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike |
1973 |
John Lennon sues US government to admit FBI is tapping his phone |
1973 |
Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus |
1974 |
Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (Texas Rangers) |
1975 |
Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris |
1976 |
1st Jewish film & TV festival |
1976 |
6th NYC Women's Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11 |
1976 |
7th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10 |
1976 |
Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as China's party leader |
1976 |
Sadiq & Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings v NZ |
1978 |
Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto |
1978 |
NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders |
1979 |
Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy |
1979 |
Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc |
1980 |
Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1980 |
Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar |
1980 |
John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK |
1980 |
Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity |
1981 |
Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate the centenary of the artist's birth |
1982 |
"Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." opens at St James Theater NYC for 9 perfs |
1982 |
12th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14 |
1982 |
13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29 |
1982 |
Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match |
1984 |
11 members of Colombo crime family arrested |
1984 |
Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed |
1986 |
Dodgers' Bill Russell, 38, announces his retirement |
1986 |
Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria |
1987 |
Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate |
1987 |
NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike |
1988 |
NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires |
1988 |
Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released |
1988 |
Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown |
1989 |
After a weeks delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played |
1989 |
France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
1989 |
Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud |
1990 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1991 |
"Dancing at Lughnasa" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 perfs |
1991 |
Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders |
1992 |
Toronto Blue Jays beat Atl Braves, 4 games to 2, in 88th World Series |
1993 |
"Wonderful Tennessee" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 9 performances |
1994 |
Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed |
1995 |
Total solar eclipse in SW/S Asia (2m09s) |
1996 |
Hasan Raza makes Test Cricket debut for Pakistan age 14 yrs 238 days |
1996 |
Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yanks win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses) |
1997 |
Marv Albert sentenced in assault case |
1998 |
Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission |
2002 |
Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC. |
2003 |
Concorde makes its last commercial flight. |
2004 |
10 people, including 4 family members of Rick Hendrick, are killed in a plane crash near Martinsville Speedway. The plane was owned by NASCAR team Hendrick Motorsports. |
2006 |
Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause", an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act. |
2008 |
"Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices. |
2008 |
Iceland receives a £1.3 billion bailout package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) as the first European country to require an emergency loan with the aim of stabilising the collapsed currency and strengthening the tax system as well as the nationalised banks |
2009 |
First International Day of Climate Action, organized with 350.org, a global campaign to address a claimed global warming crisis. |
2012 |
Libyan militias capture Bani Walid resulting in 130 civilian deaths |
2012 |
3 people are shot dead and two critically wounded after being shot by an unknown gunman in Downey, California |
2012 |
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica killing 1 person and causing over $50 million in damage |
2013 |
St Louis Cardinals defeat Boston Red Sox to tie the MLB 2013 World Series 1-1 |
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