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Today in History ~ October 24
Islam: The Prophet's Night Journey
United Nations Day
Events1648 - Treaty of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War in Europe. The war was mainly a struggle between European Protestantism and Roman Catholicism as represented by the Hapsburg monarchy and the Holy Roman Empire. France emerged from the war with the most power, and Germany was virtually devastated.
1648 - 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, 9, performs his 1st public concert (Berlin)
1836 - A Phillips patents match
1861 - West Virginia secedes from Virginia
1861 - The first telegram was transmitted across the United States from California Chief Justice Stephen Field to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C.
1871 - Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese
1882 - Dr Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis
1885 - Johann Strauss' operetta "The Gypsy Baron," premieres in Vienna
1901 - First Barrel Ride down Niagara Falls when Annie Edson Taylor initiates a famous stunt when she goes over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel
1904 - 1st NY subway opens
1911 - Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
1917 - Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army
1922 - Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State
1924 - Christian Gen Feng Joe Siang occupies Beijing
1924 - Nobel prize for physiology/medicine awarded to W Einthoven
1929 - "Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%. Nearly 13 million shares traded hands and stock prices plummeted. Many stocks recovered late in the afternoon, but the stage had been set for the October 29th stock market crash -- and the beginning of the Great Depression.
1929 - Ruby Vallee's Fleishmann Hour begins broadcasting on NBC radio
1930 - John Wayne debuts in his first starring role [H]
1931 - Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion [H]
1931 - George Washington Bridge connecting NY to NJ opens
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia
1938 - US forbids child labor in factories
1939 - Nazis require wearing of star of David
1939 - Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
1940 - 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
1940 - Hitler meets Marshal Petain
1940 - Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jewish civil servants
1942 - 2nd day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry
1943 - Anti-Nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
1944 - US air raid on Jap 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 - Following Soviet ratification, U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes announced the United Nations charter was in effect. Establishment of the U.N. came less than two months after the end of World War II.
1947 - Series of forest fires burn $30 million of timber (New England States)
1948 - Bernard Baruch, presidential advisor, stated, "Although the war is over, we are the midst of a cold war which is getting warmer." The term 'Cold War' was coined.
1951 - Jan de Hartog's "4 Poster," premieres in NYC
1956 - Soviet troops invade Hungary, Imre Nagy becomes PM of Hungary
1962 - In Cuban missile crisis, the US blockade of Cuba begins
1964 - Belgian paratroopers liberate 1,000 white hostages in Stanleyville
1964 - Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1969 - Richard Burton gave Elizabeth Taylor a gift from Cartier's: a diamond ring weighing more than 69 carats and worth more than $1,000,000.
1970 - Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
1973 - Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike
1973 - John Lennon sues US govt to admit FBI is tapping his phone
1973 - Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
1980 - Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
1984 - FBI arrested 11 alleged chiefs of the Colombo crime family on charges of racketeering in New York City.
1987 - NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
1989 - After a week's delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played
1989 - TV evangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 45 years in prison and fined half-a-million dollars for fleecing his flock.
1989 - Actress and former Hungarian beauty queen Zsa Zsa Gabor was sentenced to 72 hours in jail, 120 hours of community service and nearly $13,000 in fines and court costs for slapping a traffic officer.
1990 - Rep. Donald Lukens, R-Ohio, resigned over new sex charges.
1993 - The death of Burundi's President Melchior Ndadaye in a military coup was confirmed.
1995 - the United Nations marked its 50th anniversary. The celebration was the largest gathering of world leaders in history.
2001 - Pakistan officials said they needed no help in securing their nation's nuclear weapons despite fears they might fall into the hands of Islamic extremists.
2001 - An estranged sister-in-law of Osama bin Laden told a U.S. television show that she believed some members of the Saudi royal family supported the suspected terrorist.
2002 - Police arrested two suspects in the three-week series of sniper attacks in the Washington area that killed 10 and wounded three others. John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, were found sleeping in a car at a rest stop outside Frederick, Md.
Birthdays Today
1632 - Antony van Leeuwenhoek, Hol, naturalist (Philosophical Transactions)
1788 - Sarah Hale (poet: Mary Had a Little Lamb; magazine editor)
1808 - Ernst Friedrich Richter, composer
1855 - James Sherman (27th U.S. Vice President)
1891 - Rafael L Trujillo Molina, president/dictator of Dominican Republic (1930-61)
1900 - Preston Foster (actor: The Time Travelers, My Friend Flicka, Annie Oakley, The Marshall's Daughter, Guadalcanal Diary, The Harvey Girls, Waterfront, Gunslinger)
1904 - Moss Hart (Tony Award-winning director: My Fair Lady [1957]; playwright: You Can't Take It with You, Gentleman's Agreement, The Man Who Came to Dinner [w/George S. Kaufman], I Married An Angel; married to actress, Kitty Carlisle)
1911 - Clarence M Kelley, FBI head
1911 - Sonny Terry (Saunders Terrell) (singer, harmonica player: LPs: Sonny's Story, Sonny is King, At the Second Fret, At Sugar Hill, Back to New Orleans, Midnight Special, California Blues; Spirituals to Swing concerts at Carnegie Hall)
1915 - Tito Gobbi, great Italian baritone (Figaro, Rigoletto, Scarpia)
1926 - Y.A. (Yelberton Abraham) Tittle (Pro Football Hall of Famer: NY Giants, San Francisco '49ers, Baltimore Colts: quarterback; UPI Player of the Year [1957, 1962]; AP Player of the Year [1963])
1927 - Renato de Grandis, composer
1929 - James Brosnan (baseball: St. Louis Cardinals, Cincinnati Reds, Chicago Cubs; sportswriter)
1930 - J.P. (Jiles Perry) Richardson (The Big Bopper: singer: Chantilly Lace, Big Bopper's Wedding; songwriter: Running Bear)
1932 - John David Roberts (football)
1934 - Margie Masters (golf)
1936 - David Nelson (actor: The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet, Peyton Place, Cry-Baby; son of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson; brother of Ricky Nelson)
1937 - Santo Farina (musician, steel guitar: group: Santo & Johnny: Sleepwalk, Tear Drop)
1939 - F. Murray Abraham (Academy Award-winning actor: Amadeus [1984]; Surviving the Game, Last Action Hero, Nostradamus, Scarface, Serpico, The Sunshine Boys, All the President's Men)
1940 - F Murray Abraham, Pittsburgh PA, actor (Amadeus, Mad Man)
1944 - Randy Beisler (football)
1946 - Jerry Edmonton (musician: drums: group: Steppenwolf: Born to be Wild, Magic Carpet Ride, Rock Me; duo: Manbeast)
1947 - Kevin Kline (Academy Award-winning actor: A Fish Called Wanda [1988]; Silverado, Grand Canyon, Dave, Princess Caraboo, The Big Chill, Sophie's Choice, Search for Tomorrow)
1950 - Rawly Eastwick (baseball)
1950 - Tom Myers (football)
1951 - Jim Laslavic (football)
1951 - Mike Hennigan (football)
1960 - Ian Baker-Finch (golf: British Open Champion [1991])
Famous deaths
0996 - Hugo Capet, king of France (987-96), dies at 58
1521 - Robert Fayrfax, composer, dies at 57
1537 - Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of Henry VIII, dies (in bed)
1799 - Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer, dies at 59
1852 - Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker, dies at 70
1918 - Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, dies at 86
1945 - Robert Ley, Nazi, commits suicide
1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian Min of Defense/PM (1942-45), executed at 58
1948 - Franz Lehar, Austrian/Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), dies at 78
1957 - Christian Dior, French designer (New Look), dies at 52 in Italy
1970 - Richard Hofstadter, US historian, dies at 54
1972 - Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player (Bkln Dodgers), dies at 53 of complications from diabetes
1974 - David Oistrach, virtuoso Russian violinist, dies at 65
1983 - Jessica Savitch, news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35
1991 - Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek), dies of cardiac arrest at 70
1994 - Raul Julia, actor (Addams Family), dies of stroke at 54
If you have other Birthdays or events to add for this day please E-mail me
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