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 297th 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, 489,240 hours 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.
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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.
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October 24 Historical Events
- 1851 –William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel (moon) orbiting Uranus.
- 1857 –Sheffield F.C., the world’s first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
- 1911 –Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
- 1930 –A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as “provisional president.”
- 1945 –Founding of the United Nations
- 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)
- 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.)
- 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.
- 2005 –Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in 35 direct 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
Who were born on October 24?
- 1804 –Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
- 1930 –J.P. Richardson, The Big Bopper, American singer (d. 1959)
- 1931 –Sofia Gubaidulina, Russian composer
- 1935 –Malcolm Bilson, American pianist and music professor
- 1950 –Rawly Eastwick, American baseball player
- 1954 –Malcolm Turnbull, Australian politician
- 1960 –Joachim “Jo” Winkelhock, German race car driver
- 1972 –Kim Ji-soo, South Korean actress
- 1974 –Wilton Guerrero, Dominican baseball player
- 1978 –James Hopes, Australian one-day cricketer
Who died on October 24?
- 1537 –Jane Seymour, consort of Henry VIII of England (b. 1508)
- 1601 –Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer (b. 1546)
- 1672 –John Webb, English architect (b. 1611)
- 1935 –Dutch Schultz, American organized crime figure (b. 1902)
- 1938 –Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
- 1997 –Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
- 2002 –Harry Hay, American activist (b. 1912)
- 2005 –Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, Chinese intellectual and scholar (b. 1923)
- 2007 –Anne Weale, British writer (b. 1929)
- 2010 –Lamont Johnson, American television director (b. 1922)
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