What are the important events that happened on October 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

October 24: Facts & Myths About This Day

October 24 is the 297^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 68 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 11, 2025 – a Friday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,354,400 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectaenneacontaheptagon’ day.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Opal is the modern birthstone for this month. Jasper is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 116 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,690 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

October 24 Historical Events

• 69 –
  Second Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
• 1851 –
  William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel (moon) orbiting Uranus.
• 1929 –
  “Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
• 1931 –
  The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
• 1946 –
  A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
• 1947 –
  Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
• 1980 –
  The government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union
• 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.
• 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.
• 2007 –
  Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.

Who were born on October 24?

• 1675 –
  Richard Temple, 1st Viscount Cobham, English soldier and politician (d. 1749)
• 1710 –
  Alban Butler, English Catholic priest and writer (d. 1773)
• 1763 –
  Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839)
• 1788 –
  Sarah Josepha Hale, American poet (d. 1879)
• 1921 –
  R. K. Laxman, Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and humorist
• 1925 –
  Luciano Berio, Italian composer (d. 2003)
• 1954 –
  Doug Davidson, American actor
• 1960 –
  Ian Baker-Finch, Australian golfer
• 1968 –
  Mark Walton, American story artist, actor
• 1974 –
  Corey Dillon, American football player

Who died on October 24?

• 1708 –
  Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
• 1725 –
  Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian composer (b. 1660)
• 1948 –
  Franz Lehár, Austrian composer (b. 1870)
• 1971 –
  Jo Siffert, Swiss racing driver (b. 1936)
• 1972 –
  Jackie Robinson, American baseball player (b. 1919)
• 1975 –
  Zdzisław Żygulski, Sr., Polish literary historian (b. 1888)
• 1994 –
  Yannis Hotzeas, Greek Marxist theoretician (b. 1930)
• 2004 –
  James Aloysius Hickey, American Catholic cardinal and archbishop (b. 1920)
• 2006 –
  William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
• 2010 –
  Joseph Stein, American playwright (b. 1912)