About October 24
October 24, 2025 is the 297th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 68 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 116 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On October 24
- 69 –Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
- 1147 –After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
- 1648 –The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years’ War.
- 1812 –Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
- 1851 –William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel (moon) orbiting Uranus.
- 1861 –The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
- 1926 –Harry Houdini’s last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1931 –The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
- 1954 –Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
- 1957 –The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
- 1960 –Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union’s Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash
- 1964 –Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration of Independence)
- 1977 –Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
- 1980 –The government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union
- 1986 –Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials.
- 1990 –Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian “stay-behind” clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early 1980s.
- 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.
- 2007 –Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
- 2008 –“Bloody Friday” saw many of the world’s stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.
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