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 298th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 68 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is October 11, 2024 – a Thursday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 1,729,728,000 seconds 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 ‘dihectaenneacontaoctagon’ 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 97 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 4,325 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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October 24 Historical Events
- 1147 –After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
- 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.
- 1648 –The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years’ War.
- 1851 –William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel (moon) orbiting Uranus.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
- 1929 –“Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
- 1949 –The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
- 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.)
- 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?
- 1830 –Marianne North, English naturalist and flower painter (d. 1890)
- 1882 –Dame Sybil Thorndike, British actress (d. 1976)
- 1904 –A.K. Golam Jilani, a Bangladeshi who was a revolutionary of the Indian independence movement. (d. 1932)
- 1950 –Miroslav Sládek, Czech politician
- 1954 –Jozef Ráž, Slovak musician
- 1954 –Mike Rounds, American politician, current governor of South Dakota
- 1972 –Scott Peterson, American murderer
- 1977 –Iván Kaviedes, Ecuadoran footballer
- 1983 –Hernán Garin, Argentine footballer
- 1987 –Charlie White, American ice dancer
Who died on October 24?
- 1669 –William Prynne, English Puritan leader (b. 1600)
- 1708 –Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
- 1875 –Raffaello Carboni, Italian writer (b. 1817)
- 1922 –George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer (b. 1839)
- 1938 –Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (b. 1870)
- 1966 –Sofya Yanovskaya, Russian mathematician (b. 1896)
- 1997 –Don Messick, American voice actor (b. 1926)
- 2005 –Immanuel C.Y. Hsu, Chinese intellectual and scholar (b. 1923)
- 2005 –Robert Sloman, British television writer (b. 1926)
- 2006 –William Montgomery Watt, Scottish historian and Islamic scholar (b. 1909)
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