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
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- 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
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- 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
- 1945 In France PC/PS/MRP win parliamentary election (25/24/23%)
- 1946 Netherlands & Indonesia sign cease fire
- 1946 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket, launched from Whites Sands US, takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
- 1947 Series of forest fires burn over $30 million of timber across the New England States
- 1948 Bernard M Baruch introduces term “Cold War”
- 1948 Francis Poulenc’s “Sinfonietta” premieres
- 1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis
- 1948 WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1949 Construction begins on the United Nations headquarters in New York
- 1951 Jan de Hartog’s “Four Poster” premieres in NYC
- 1951 United Nations publishes its first postage stamps
- 1952 Arab Liberation Movement becomes only political party in Syria
- 1953 KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 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
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