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Events on the 24th of October in history

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24 Oct 2069 Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
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24 Oct 1147 After a siege of four months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
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24 Oct 1260 The Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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24 Oct 1260 Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
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24 Oct 1360 The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
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24 Oct 1492 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany
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24 Oct 1531 Bavaria joins Schmalkaldische Union
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24 Oct 1590 John White, the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
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24 Oct 1648 The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War.
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24 Oct 1648 Peace of Westphalia ends 30 year war and Holy Roman Empire
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24 Oct 1656 Treaty of Vilnius: Russia and Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant
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24 Oct 1681 Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London
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24 Oct 1795 Partitions of Poland: The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
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24 Oct 1795 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
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24 Oct 1812 Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
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24 Oct 1818 Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his 1st public concert (Berlin)
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24 Oct 1836 A Phillips patents match
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24 Oct 1836 The match is patented
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24 Oct 1851 William Lassell, discovers the moons Umbriel, and Ariel, orbiting Uranus.
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24 Oct 1851 William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus
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24 Oct 1856 Constitution of South Australia adopted
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24 Oct 1857 Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in Sheffield, England.
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24 Oct 1857 World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F.C., founded in England
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24 Oct 1861 1st US transcontinental telegram is sent (from SF to Washington DC)
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24 Oct 1861 West Virginia seceded from Virginia
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24 Oct 1861 The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
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24 Oct 1861 1st transcontinental telegram sent ending the Pony Express
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24 Oct 1871 Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese
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24 Oct 1881 Levi P Morton, US ambas to France drives 1st rivet in Stat of Liberty
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24 Oct 1882 Dr Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis
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24 Oct 1889 Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
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24 Oct 1899 Battle at Rietfontein, South Africa: Boers vs. British army
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24 Oct 1900 General Redvers Buller returns to England
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24 Oct 1901 Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls, in a barrel.
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24 Oct 1901 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
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24 Oct 1903 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1)
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24 Oct 1903 George Sutton becomes billiard champ
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24 Oct 1904 1st New York subway opens
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24 Oct 1908 Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Outto the Ball Game"
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24 Oct 1911 Orville Wright, remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider, at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
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24 Oct 1911 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
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24 Oct 1912 First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
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24 Oct 1913 Joe Tinker fired as Cin Reds manager
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24 Oct 1916 Moroccan troops capture Ft Douaumont
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24 Oct 1917 Battle at Caporetto: German and Austria smash Italian army
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24 Oct 1917 Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo).
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24 Oct 1922 German parliament mandates Ebert President until July 1925
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24 Oct 1922 Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State
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24 Oct 1923 Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship
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24 Oct 1924 Christian General Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing
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24 Oct 1924 Nobel prize for fysiologie / medicine awarded to W Einthoven
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24 Oct 1926 Harry Houdini's last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.
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24 Oct 1929 "Black Thursday, " start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%
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24 Oct 1929 "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
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24 Oct 1929 "Black Thursday," beginning of stock market crash
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24 Oct 1930 A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas is then installed as "provisional president."
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24 Oct 1931 Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion
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24 Oct 1931 George Washington Bridge connecting New York to New Jersey opens
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24 Oct 1931 The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
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24 Oct 1932 British government signs trade treaty with USSR
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24 Oct 1935 Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs Manager Charlie Grimm and Chicago players W English, B Jurges and B Herman for actions in World Series
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24 Oct 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia
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24 Oct 1938 US forbids child labor in factories
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24 Oct 1939 Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up
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24 Oct 1939 Nazi require wearing of star of David
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24 Oct 1939 Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"
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24 Oct 1939 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
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24 Oct 1940 Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants
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24 Oct 1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
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24 Oct 1940 Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
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24 Oct 1942 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry
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24 Oct 1943 The Provisional Government of Free India formally declares war on Britain and the United States of America.
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24 Oct 1943 Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
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24 Oct 1944 Rotterdam Passage fight frees 46 prisoners
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24 Oct 1944 US air raid on Japanese battleships / cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks
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24 Oct 1944 US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines
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24 Oct 1944 US Captain David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Japanese planes in Gulf of Leyte
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24 Oct 1944 World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku and the battleship Japanese battleship Musashi are sunk by American aircraft in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
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24 Oct 1945 Charter of United Nations of force became
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24 Oct 1945 France (PC / PS / MRP win parliamentary election (25 / 24 / 23%)
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24 Oct 1945 UN charter comes into effect
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24 Oct 1945 Founding of the United Nations.
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24 Oct 1945 United Nations Charter becomes effective
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24 Oct 1946 Netherlands and Indonesia sign cease fire
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24 Oct 1946 A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
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24 Oct 1947 Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
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24 Oct 1947 Series of forest fires burn $30 million of timber (New England States)
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24 Oct 1948 Bernard M Baruch introduces term "Cold War"
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24 Oct 1948 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis
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24 Oct 1948 WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting
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24 Oct 1949 The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
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24 Oct 1951 United Nations publishes its 1st postage stamps
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24 Oct 1952 Arab Liberation Movement becomes the only party of Syria
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24 Oct 1953 KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting
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24 Oct 1954 Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
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24 Oct 1956 AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year
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24 Oct 1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes Prime Minister of Hungary
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24 Oct 1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary
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24 Oct 1957 Cin Redlegs decline to move to Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City
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24 Oct 1957 The United States Air Force starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
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24 Oct 1958 USSR lends Egypt 400 million rubles to build Aswan Dam
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24 Oct 1960 Disaster on USSR (Baikonoer) launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (165 die-unconfirmed); USSR claims killed in plane crash
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24 Oct 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.
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24 Oct 1961 "Evening with Yves Montand" opens at John Golden NYC for 55 performances
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24 Oct 1962 In Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins
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24 Oct 1963 "110 in the Shade" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 330 performances
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24 Oct 1963 KRO shows 1st Bonanza
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24 Oct 1963 Sandy Koufax is unanimous winner of Cy Young Award
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24 Oct 1964 "Cambridge Circus" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances
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24 Oct 1964 18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan
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24 Oct 1964 Dr Kenneth David Kaunda becomes President of Zaire
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24 Oct 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).
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24 Oct 1964 Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
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24 Oct 1965 Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament
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24 Oct 1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on
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24 Oct 1970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
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24 Oct 1970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
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24 Oct 1971 Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)
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24 Oct 1971 Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21
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24 Oct 1973 Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on New Jersey Turnpike
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24 Oct 1973 The Yom Kippur War ends.
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24 Oct 1973 John Lennon sues US govt to admit the FBI is tapping his phone
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24 Oct 1973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
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24 Oct 1974 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Texas Rangers)
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24 Oct 1975 Turkish diplomat shot dead in Paris
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24 Oct 1975 In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gaps in gender equality.
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24 Oct 1976 7th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10
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24 Oct 1976 1st Jewish film & TV festival
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24 Oct 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.)
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24 Oct 1978 Keith Richards convicted of heroin possession in Toronto
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24 Oct 1978 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs. New York Islanders
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24 Oct 1979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy
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24 Oct 1979 Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc
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24 Oct 1980 Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar
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24 Oct 1980 John Lennon releases " (Just Like) Starting Over" in the UK
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24 Oct 1980 The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
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24 Oct 1980 John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK
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24 Oct 1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
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24 Oct 1982 13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29
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24 Oct 1984 11 members of the Colombo crime family arrested
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24 Oct 1984 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed
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24 Oct 1984 Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
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24 Oct 1986 Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria
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24 Oct 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.
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24 Oct 1987 Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
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24 Oct 1987 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
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24 Oct 1988 NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires
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24 Oct 1988 Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released
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24 Oct 1988 Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
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24 Oct 1989 After a week's delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played (World Series #86)
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24 Oct 1989 Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud
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24 Oct 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.
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24 Oct 1991 "Dancing at Lughnasa" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 421 performances
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24 Oct 1991 Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders
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24 Oct 1992 Toronto Blue Jays beat Atl Braves, 4 games to 2, in 88th World Series
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24 Oct 1992 The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
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24 Oct 1993 "Wonderful Tennessee" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 9 performances
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24 Oct 1994 Bomb attack on opposition in Sri Lanka, 55+ killed
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24 Oct 1995 Total solar eclipse in SW / S Asia (2m09s)
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24 Oct 1996 Last game at Atlanta County Fulton Stadium. Yanks win record 8th straight road post season win (with no loses)
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24 Oct 1997 Marv Albert sentenced in assault case
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24 Oct 1998 Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission.
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24 Oct 2002 Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, D.C.
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24 Oct 2003 Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
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24 Oct 2004 Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League.
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24 Oct 2005 Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in 35 direct 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
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24 Oct 2007 Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
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24 Oct 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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24 Oct 2014 The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
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24 Oct 3963 -BC- Origin of Hevelius' Mundane Era
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