On this day in History - Oct. 24

0051 - Domitian was born (d. 0096). Roman Emperor
0069 - Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
0996 - King Hugh Capet of France dies (b. 938)
1147 - Conquista de Lisboa aos mouros.
1260 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz dies. Mamluk sultan of Egypt
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.
1260 - - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
1360 - The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
1375 - King Valdemar IV of Denmark dies
1402 - David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay was born (d. 1378). Heir to the throne of Scotland

1458 - Alcácer Ceguer, no Norte de África, é conquistada por D. Afonso V.
1537 - Jane Seymour dies. Queen of Henry VIII of England
1572 - Edward Stanley, 3rd Earl of Derby dies. English politician
1601 - Tycho Brahe dies (b. 1546). Danish astronomer
1632 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek was born (d. 1723). Dutch microbiologist
1648 - The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
1655 - Pierre Gassendi dies (b. 1592). French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
1669 - William Prynne dies (b. 1600). English Puritan leader
1672 - John Webb dies (b. 1611). English architect
1675 - Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham was born (d. 1749). English soldier and politician.
1708 - Kowa Seki dies. Japanese mathematician
1725 - Alessandro Scarlatti dies (b. 1660). Italian composer
1788 - Sarah Hale was born (d. 1879). American poet.
1795 - Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided between Austria, Prussia and Russia
1799 - Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf dies (b. 1739). Austrian composer
1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber was born (d. 1891). German physicist.
1811 - Ferdinand Hiller was born (d. 1885). German composer.
1812 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
1821 - Elias Boudinot dies (b. 1740). American President of the Continental Congress
1836 - Ramalho Ortigão was born (d. 1915). Portuguese writer. His works include As Farpas (with Eça de Queiroz) and A Holanda.
1852 - Daniel Webster dies (b. 1782). American lawyer and politician
1855 - James S. Sherman was born (d. 1912). Vice President of the United States
1861 - The first transcontinental telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
1868 - Alexandra David-Néel was born (d. 1969). French explorer and writer
1891 - Rafael Molina-Trujillo was born. President of the Dominican Republic
1898 - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes dies (b. 1824). French painter
1901 - Gilda Gray was born (d. 1959). Polish-born actress and dancer
1903 - Melvin Purvis was born (d. 1960). American director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1904 - Moss Hart was born (d. 1961). American dramatist

1906 - Nobel Medicine Prize to Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal “in recognition of their work on the structure of the nervous system”
1909 - Bill Carr was born (d. 1966). American athlete
1912 - Mykola Lysenko dies (b. 1842). Ukrainian composer
1915 - Désiré Charnay dies (b. 1828). French archaeologist
1915 - Tito Gobbi was born (d. 1984). Italian baritone
1915 - Bob Kane was born (d. 1998). Cartoonist
1915 - Roger Milliken was born. Textile heir
1917 - Battle of Caporetto starts on the Austro-Italian front of World War I
1925 - Luciano Berio was born (d. 2003). Italian composer
1926 - Y. A. Tittle was born. American football player
1927 - Jean-Claude Pascal was born (d. 1992). French singer
1929- George Crumb was born. American composer
1929 - Yordan Radichkov was born. Bulgarian writer
1929 - "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
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."
1930 - The Big Bopper was born (d.1959). American singer
1930 - Sultan Ahmad Shah was born. King of Malaysia
1931 - Sofia Gubaidulina was born. Russian composer.

1931 - Al Capone, Chicago's organized crime boss, is convicted of tax evasion in a federal court

l1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes was born. French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 - Robert Mundell was born. Canadian economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia
1936 - Bill Wyman was born. English musician (The Rolling Stones)

1937 - Miguel Ángel Coria was born. Spanish composer.
1938 - Ernst Barlach dies. German sculptor
1939 - F. Murray Abraham was born. American actor
1939 - Madalena Iglésias was born. Portuguese singer.
1944 - World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku is sunk.
1944 - Louis Renault dies. French automobile manufacturer and Nazi collaborator
1945 - Vidkun Quisling dies (b. 1887). Norwegian traitor
1945 - Founding of the United Nations / Criação da Organização das Nações Unidas por parte de 27 signatários

1945 - The Nobel Medicine Prize to Sir Alexander Fleming, Ernst Boris Chain, and Sir Howard Walter Florey. “for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in various infectious diseases”
1945 - Anthony Christian was born. English Artist
1946 - Jerry Edmonton was born. Canadian drummer (Steppenwolf)

1946 - Gabriel González Videla se proclama presidente de Chile.
1947 - Kevin Kline was born. American actor
1947 - Walt Disney testifies to the House Unamerican Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1948 - Kweisi Mfume was born. American civil rights activist, U.S. Congressman from Maryland

1948 - Franz Lehár dies. Hungary composer.

1954- Mike Rounds was born. Governor of South Dakota
1948 - Franz Lehár dies (b. 1870). Austrian composer
1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
1955 - The body of Manolo Just, a probable bisexual, is found in the Mexico apartment of Mary Rogers, daughter of Will Rogers. Homicide is suspected, but never proven.
1956 - Soviet Union invades Hungary
1957 - Ron Gardenhire was born. Baseball manager
1957 - Christian Dior dies (b. 19805). French fashion designer
1960 - Ian Baker-Finch was born. Australian golf player
1960 - Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing 165. Among the dead is Field Marshall Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.

1961 - O Reino Unido concede a autonomia à ilha de Malta.
1961 - Mary Bono was born. U.S. Congresswoman from California
1962 - B.D. Wong was born. American actor.

1962 - John Steinbeck is awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
1964 - Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony)
1966 - Roman Abramovich was born. Russian oil magnate

1966 - Vietnam: Manila Conference's "Declaration of Peace". President Johnson meets with other Allied leaders and they pledge to withdraw troops from Vietnam within six months if North Vietnam "withdraws its forces to the North and ceases infiltration of South Vietnam.”
1970 - Salvador Allende elected President of Chile
1971 - Caprice Bourret was born. American model and actress
1971 - Dervla Kirwan was born. Irish actress
1971 - Carl Ruggles dies (b. 1876). American composer
1972 - Jackie Robinson dies (b. 1919). Baseball player
1972 - Claire Windsor dies (b. 1897). American actress
1972 - Scott Peterson was born. American murderer
1972 - Pat Williams was born. American football player
1973 - Levi Leipheimer was born. American professional cyclist
1973 - Yom Kippur War ends
1974 - David Oistrakh, dies (b. 1908). Ukrainian violinist
1979 - Ben Gillies was born. Australian musician (Silverchair)
1980 - Monica was born. American singer
1980 - James Killian was born. American football player
1980 - Government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union
1981 - Tila Nguyen was born. American model

1982 - Arturo Camacho Ramírez dies. Colombian poet.
1985 - Wayne Rooney was born. English footballer
1989 - Televangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 45 years in prison and a 500,000 USD fine for defrauding investors of 3.7 million USD.
1991- Gene Roddenberry dies (b. 1921). American television producer
1992 - The Toronto Blue Jays become the first non-US team to win the World Series. This is also known as the first real "World" Series.

1994 - Início das filmagens de O Convento, filme de Manoel de Oliveira com Catherine Deneuve e John Malkovitch.

1994 - Sete quadros de Picasso são roubados de uma galeria em Zurique, Suíça.

1994 - O cientista francês Daniel Cohen obtém o Premio Literario de Direitos Humanos da UNESCO.
1997 - Don Messick dies (b. 1926). Voice actor

1997 - El escritor español Arturo Pérez Reverte recibe el premio Jean Monet de Literatura Europea, por su novela La piel del tambor.
1998 - Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
1998 - Tropical Storm Mitch reaches hurricane strength.

1999 - Fernando de la Rúa, líder de la Alianza Opositora, logra la victoria en las elecciones argentinas para suceder al peronista Carlos Saul Ménem.
2001- Wolf Rüdiger Hess dies (b. 1937). German neo-Nazi
2002 - Winton M. Blount dies (b. 1921). United States Postmaster General
2002 - Adolph Green dies (b. 1914). American lyricist and playwright
2002 - Harry Hay dies (b. 1912). American activist
2002 - Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.

2002 - Elections in Bahrain to the 40-seat lower house of parliament
2003 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic transport to a close, at least for the time being.
2004 - A plane carrying ten members of the NASCAR Hendrick Motorsports team crashes en route to the race held at Martinsville Speedway. There were no survivors.
2004 - James Cardinal Hickey dies (b. 1920). Archbishop of Washington, D.C.
2004 - Randy Dorton dies (b. 1954). NASCAR crew member
2004 - Ricky Hendrick dies (b. 1980). NASCAR team owner
2005 - Rockstar Games releases Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories for the Sony Playstation Portable. Also, Firaxis Games will release Civilization 4 for the PC.
United Nations Day
Zambia - Independence Day (1964)
Maladay - (Discordianism)
Labour Day in New Zealand (2005, 4th Monday in October).