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On this day, 24 October, 1260 Qutuz, Mamluk Sultans of Egypt (1259-60), was assassinated by a fellow Mamluk leader, Baibars, who seized power for himself. In that same year, the spectacular Cathedral of Chartres was dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Here are a few memorable events on October 24:

• 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 Schmalkaldic League
• 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 3rd Partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia

• • 1818 Felix Mendelssohn aged 9 performs his first public concert in Berlin
  • 1836 Earliest American patent for a phosphorus friction match by Alonzo Dwight Phillips of Springfield, Massachusetts
  • 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, D.C.)
  • 1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia
  • 1871 Mob in Los Angeles, California hangs 18 Chinese
  • 1881 Levi P Morton, US ambassador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty
  • 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 billiards champion
• 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

• 1913 Joe Tinker fired as Cincinnati 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 General Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
• 1924 Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing
• 1924 Nobel prize for physiology or medicine awarded to Dutchman Willem Einthoven “for his discovery of the mechanism of the electrocardiogram”

• 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

• 1931 George Washington Bridge linking New York City and New Jersey dedicated, opens the next day

• 1932 British government signs trade treaty with USSR

• • 1935 Judge Landis fines umpire George Moriarty, Cubs manager Charlie Grimm & Chicago 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 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 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 and cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks
• 1944 US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines
• 1944 US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte

• 1954 5th Formula One WDC: Juan Manuel Fangio wins by 16.86 points
• 1956 AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
• 1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary
• 1956 Margaret Towner becomes first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA)
• 1957 Cincinnati 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’s 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 performances
• 1962 Cuban missile crisis: US blockade of Cuba begins

• 1963 “110 in the Shade” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 330 performances
• 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 performances
• 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 Test Cricket debut of Pakistani cricketers Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan and Khalid Ibadulla vs Australia. Khalid “Billy” Ibadulla scores 166 on debut.
• 1965 Benjamin Britten’s “Voices for Today” premieres
• 1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
• 1965 16th Formula One WDC: Jim Clark wins by 14 points

• 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 “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”

• 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 New Jersey 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 Sadiq & Mushtaq Mohammad score hundreds in same Test Cricket innings v NZ
• 1976 27th Formula One WDC: James Hunt wins by one point (this season served as the inspiration for the 2013 film “Rush”)
• 1976 1st Toronto International Film Festival opens
• 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

• 1980 Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1980 Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar

• 1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity

• 1982 “Rock ‘n Roll!: The 1st…” opens at St James Theater NYC for 9 performances
• 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

• 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 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 Mururoa atoll
• 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 performances
• 1991 Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders
• 1992 Toronto Blue Jays beat Atl Braves, 4 games to 2, in 88th World Series
• 1992 10th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats Great Britain 10-6
• 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 on comet and asteroid mission
• 2002 Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.
• 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
• 2006 MESSENGER spacecraft performs a Venus flyby
• 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), 1st European country to require an emergency loan as a result of the financial crisis
• 2009 First International Day of Climate Action, organized with 350.org, a global campaign to address a claimed global warming crisis.
• 2009 19th College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 20-16 in South Bend (Notre Dame’s first win in the series in nine years)
• 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
• 2015 Even results in Argentine Presidential Election between Daniel Scioli and Mauricio Macrieven trigger 1st ever Presidential run off 22 Nov
• 2016 Suicide bomb kills 61 and injures 117 at a police training academy in Quetta, Pakistan, ISIS claims responsibility