On this day in history October 24th. 1260 - Saif ad-Din Qutuz, third Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, by a fellow Mamluk leader, who seizes power for himself. 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. 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 Schmalkaldische Union 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 Years War in the Holy Roman Empire; Switzerlands independence recognized 1656 - Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant 1681 - Earl of Shaftesbury accused of high treason in London 1795 - Third partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia French Emperor Napoléon BonaparteFrench Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte 1812 - Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow. 1818 - Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his first public concert (Berlin) 1836 - A Phillips patents match 1851 - William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus 1856 - Constitution of South Australia adopted 1857 - Worlds first soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in Yorkshire, England 1861 - First US transcontinental telegram is sent (from San Francisco to Washington DC) 1861 - West Virginia seceded from Virginia 1871 - Mob in Los Angeles hangs 18 Chinese 1881 - Levi P Morton, US ambasador to France drives first rivet in Statue of Liberty Microbiologist Robert KochMicrobiologist Robert Koch 1882 - Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis 1885 - Johann Strauss opera 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 billards champion 1904 - First New York subway opens 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 Naval Officer and Explorer Robert ScottNaval Officer and Explorer Robert Scott 1911 - Captain Robert Falcon Scotts expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole 1911 - Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years. 1913 - Joe Tinker fired as Cin 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 - Gen Otto von Lossow calls Reichswehr to Berlin to form a dictatorship Aviator Orville WrightAviator Orville Wright 1924 - Christian Gen Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing 1924 - Nobel prize for physiology/medicine awarded to W Einthoven 1926 - Harry Houdinis last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan. 1929 - Black Thursday, start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8% 1929 - Rudy Vallees The Fleishmanns Yeast Hour begins broadcasting on NBC radio 1929 - Belgian princess Marie-Jose & Italian crown prince Umberto get engaged, assassination attempt on Umberto fails 1930 - A bloodless coup détat in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Vargas then installed as provisional president. President and Dictator of Brazil Getulio VargasPresident and Dictator of Brazil Getulio Vargas 1931 - George Washington Bridge linking New York City and New Jersey dedicated, opens the next day 1931 - Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion 1932 - British government signs trade treaty with USSR 1933 - Langston Hughes Mulatto premieres in NYC 1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia [10/2] 1935 - Judge Landis fines ump George Moriarty, Cubs mgr Charlie Grimm & Chic players W English, B Jurges & B Herman for actions in World Series 1938 - US forbids child labor in factories 1939 - Benny Goodman records Lets Dance 1939 - Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up 1939 - Nazi require wearing of Star of David by Jews Baseball Player Joe DiMaggioBaseball Player Joe DiMaggio 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 - Hitler meets Marshal Pétain 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 Dictator of Nazi Germany Adolf HitlerDictator of Nazi Germany Adolf Hitler 1944 - US air raid on Japanese battleships/cruisers in Sibuya Sea: Musashi sinks 1944 - US aircraft carrier Princeton sinks at Philippines 1944 - US capt David Mccampbell shoots down 9-11 Jap planes in Gulf of Leyte 1945 - Charter of United Nations comes into effect 1945 - 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 takes the first photograph of earth from outer space. 1947 - Series of forest fires $30 million of timber (New England States) 1948 - Bernard M Baruch introduces term Cold War 1948 - Francis Poulencs Sinfonietta premieres 1948 - Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical In Multiplicibus Curis 1948 - WJBK TV channel 2 in Detroit, MI (CBS) begins broadcasting 1951 - Jan de Hartogs 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 - Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam 1956 - Margaret Towner becomes first woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) 1956 - AP names Cin manager Birdie Tebbets as NL Manager of the Year 1956 - Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary 1957 - Cin 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 Sjostakovitchs 1st Cello concert 1960 - Disaster on USSR (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 perfs 1962 - Cuban missile crisis: US blockade of Cuba begins 1963 - 110 in the Shade opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 330 perfs 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 perfs 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 - Khalid Billy Ibadulla scores 166 on Cricket debut v Australia 1964 - Test Cricket debut of Asif Iqbal, Majid Khan & Khalid Ibadulla v Aust 1965 - Benjamin Brittens Voices for Today premieres 1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Phoenix Thunderbirds Golf Tournament 1968 - Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on £50 bail 1968 - The Peoples 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 Mary Tyler Moore Show 1970 - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile 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 OBrady, 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 1973 - Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ 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 Womens Marathon won by Miki Gorman in 2:39:11 1976 - 7th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:10:10 1976 - Hua Guofeng succeeds Mao as Chinas party leader 1976 - Sadiq & Mushtaq Mohammad score tons in same Test Cricket innings v NZ 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 Musician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartneyMusician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartney 1979 - Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc 1980 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1980 - Iraqi troops occupies Khorramshar 1980 - John Lennon releases (Just Like) Starting Over in UK 1980 - Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity 1981 - Pablo Picassos 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate the centenary of the artists birth 1982 - Rock n Roll!: The 1st... opens at St James Theater NYC for 9 perfs 1982 - 12th NYC Womens Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:27:14 1982 - 13th NYC Marathon won by Alberto Salazar in 2:09:29 Tennis Player Steffi GrafTennis Player Steffi Graf 1982 - Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match 1984 - 11 members of Colombo crime family arrested 1984 - Intelsat 5 re-enters Earths atmosphere 5 months after it failed 1986 - Dodgers Bill Russell, 38, announces his retirement 1986 - Great Britain drops diplomatic relations with Syria 1987 - Borks supreme court nomination rejected by senate 1987 - NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike 1988 - NY Islanders & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires 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 NHL Right Winger Mike BossyNHL Right Winger Mike Bossy 1989 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island 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 perfs 1991 - Larry Ryckman purchases CFL Calgary Stampeders 1992 - Toronto Blue Jays beat Atl Braves, 4 games to 2, in 88th World Series 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 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. 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. 2008 - Bloody Friday saw many of the worlds 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) as the first European country to require an emergency loan with the aim of stabilising the collapsed currency and strengthening the tax system as well as the nationalised banks 2009 - First International Day of Climate Action, organized with 350.org, a global campaign to address a claimed global warming crisis. 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
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