Major Events
- 1260 Qutuz, Mamluk Sultans of Egypt (1259-60), is assassinated by Baibars, a fellow Mamluk leader, who seizes power for himself
- 1648 Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Years' War in the Holy Roman Empire; Switzerland's independence recognized
- 1929 "Black Thursday", start of stock market crash of 1929, Dow Jones Industrial Average drops 12.8%
- 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba
- 2008 In a "Bloody Friday" many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst decline in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices
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Oct 24 in Film & TV
- 1962 "The Manchurian Candidate", directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey, is released
Oct 24 in Music
- 1979 Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc as all-time best selling singer-songwriter
Oct 24 in Sport
- 1857 Recognised by FIFA as oldest existing club still playing football in the world, Sheffield FC is founded in Yorkshire, England; now based in Dronfield, Derbyshire
Did You Know?
Domitian
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
Rafael Trujillo
Melvin Purvis
Moss Hart
Malcolm Turnbull
Merian C. Cooper
F. Murray Abraham
Kevin Kline
Adrienne Bailon
Drake
PewDiePie
Bill Wyman
Jim Peters
Wayne Rooney
Fun Fact About October 24
Alleged teleportation of Spanish soldier Gil Perez from the Philippines to Mexico
Famous Weddings
- 1867 US Admiral George Dewey (29) weds daughter of New Hampshire's war governor Susan Goodwin
- 1957 Singer Bing Cosby marries second wife actress Kathryn Grant
- 1964 Aspiring American songwriter Harry Nilsson (23) weds Sandi McTaggart (21) in Los Angeles, California; divorce in 1967
More October 24 Weddings
Tycho Brahe
Vidkun Quisling
Jackie Robinson
Rosa Parks
Maureen O'Hara
Fats DominoArticles, Photos and Quiz
The 17 Year-Old Witness to the Eruption of Vesuvius
17 year-old Pliny the Younger's account of the eruption of Vesuvius and the destruction of Pompeii made the event famous long after Pompeii was buried and forgotten.
October 24, 79 AD
Another Panic, Another Market Crash
Wall Street was gripped by panic on this day. It was not the first time nor the last. Anything from railways to a pandemic can cause a crash, it seems.
October 24, 1929
