About October 24
October 24, 2024 is the 298th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 68 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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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 97 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.
- 1260 –Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
- 1795 –Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia
- 1861 –The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
- 1911 –Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
- 1926 –Harry Houdini’s last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1930 –A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as “provisional president.”
- 1931 –The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
- 1949 –The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
- 1954 –Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
- 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)
- 1973 –Yom Kippur War ends
- 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
- 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.
- 2003 –Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
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