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

• 1260 –
  Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
• 1360 –
  The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War.
• 1929 –
  “Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
• 1931 –
  The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
• 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.
• 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.
• 2007 –
  Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
• 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.

Who were born on October 24?

• 1896 –
  Jack Warner, English actor (d. 1981)
• 1905 –
  Fran Zwitter, Slovenian historian (d. 1988)
• 1941 –
  William H. Dobelle, American biomedical engineer
• 1948 –
  Kweisi Mfume, American politician and activist
• 1955 –
  Katherine Knight, Australian murderess
• 1959 –
  Anthony Waller, Lebanese film director
• 1960 –
  Jaime Garzón, Colombian journalist and comedian (d. 1999)
• 1975 –
  Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian footballer
• 1981 –
  Sebastián Bueno, Argentine footballer
• 1989 –
  Shenae Grimes, Canadian actress

Who died on October 24?

• 996 –
  King Hugh Capet of France (b. 938)
• 1821 –
  Elias Boudinot, American President of the Continental Congress (b. 1740)
• 1875 –
  Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer (b. 1817)
• 1915 –
  Désiré Charnay, French archaeologist (b. 1828)
• 1971 –
  Carl Ruggles, American composer (b. 1876)
• 2001 –
  Wolf Rüdiger Hess, German neo-Nazi (b. 1937)
• 2005 –
  Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (b. 1913)
• 2007 –
  Alisher Saipov, Kyrgyz journalist (b. 1981)
• 2010 –
  Joseph Stein, American playwright (b. 1912)
• 2010 –
  Lamont Johnson, American television director (b. 1922)