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439Oct 24Carthage, the leading Roman city in North Africa, fell to Genseric and the Vandals.
996Oct 24Hugh Capet, king of France (987-96), died at 58.
1260Oct 24Saif ad-Din Qutuz (aka Koetoez), Turkish sultan of Egypt, was murdered.
1521Oct 24Robert Fayrfax, composer, died at 57.
1537Oct 24Jane Seymour, the third wife of England’s King Henry VIII, died 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward VI.
1648Oct 24Switzerland’s independence was recognized with the Peace of Westphalia.
1656Oct 24Treaty of Vilnius (Lithuania): Russia and Poland signed an anti-Swedish covenant.
1818Oct 24Felix Mendelssohn (9) performed his 1st public concert in Berlin
1863Oct 24General Ulysses S. Grant arrived in Chattanooga, Tennessee to find the Union Army there starving.
1871Oct 24Anti Chinese rioting took place in Los Angeles. A mob in Los Angeles hanged 16 Chinese men and one woman.
1885Oct 24Johann Strauss’ operetta, “The Gypsy Baron,” premiered in Vienna.
1891Oct 24Rafael L. Trujillo Molina, was born. He became president and dictator of the Dominican Republic (1930-61).
1897Oct 24The first comic strip appeared in the Sunday color supplement of the New York Journal called the ‘Yellow Kid.
1911Oct 24Robert Scott’s expedition left Cape Evans for South Pole.
1916Oct 24Industrialist Henry Ford awarded equal pay to women. Ford helped lead American war production with the gigantic facility at Willow Run.
1917Oct 24The Austro-German army routed the Italian army at Caporetto, Italy.
1918Oct 24Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer, died at 86.
1922Oct 24Irish Parliament adopted a constitution for an Irish Free State.
1923Oct 24Denise Levertov, English poet, was born.
1924Oct 24Nobel prize for physiology and medicine was awarded to W. Einthoven.
1929Oct 24George Henry Crumb, American composer, was born.
1931Oct 24Al (Alphonse) Capone, prohibition era Chicago gangster, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion.
1935Oct 24Italy invaded Ethiopia.
1939Oct 24Benny Goodman and his orchestra recorded their signature theme, “Let’s Dance,” for Columbia Records in New York.
1940Oct 24F. Murray Abraham, actor (Amadeus, Mad Man), was born in Pittsburgh, Pa.
1940Oct 24Protestant churches [in Germany?] protested against the dismissal of Jewish civil servants.
1942Oct 24The 2nd day of battle at El Alamein (Egypt).
1943Oct 24Anti-Nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender, Calais, began transmitting.
1945Oct 24The United Nations was born with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 nations at a San Francisco Conference chaired by the State Department’s Alger Hiss.
1947Oct 24Kevin Kline, actor (Sophie’s Choice, Big Chill), was born in St. Louis.
1948Oct 24Franz Lehar, Austrian-Hungarian composer (Wiener Frauen), died at 78.
1951Oct 24Jan de Hartog’s “4 Poster,” premiered in NYC.
1956Oct 24Soviet troops invaded Hungary and Imre Nagy became PM of Hungary.
1962Oct 24The U.S. blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis officially began under a proclamation signed by President Kennedy.
1973Oct 24On the NJ Turnpike heavy fog caused collisions killing 11 people.
1974Oct 24David Oistrach (b.1908), virtuoso Russian violinist, died of a heart attack in Amsterdam.
1984Oct 24In NYC 11 members of Colombo crime family were indicted.
1987Oct 24NBC technicians accepted a pact and ended a 118 day strike.
1991Oct 24President Bush used a speech in Washington to blast Congress as a “privileged class of rulers.”
1992Oct 24The Toronto Blue Jays became the first non-U.S. team to win the World Series as they defeated the Atlanta Braves, 4-3, in game six.
1993Oct 24Two George Washington University researchers who had cloned non-viable human embryos told a news conference that science was still far from duplicating human beings. But they urged ethicists to prepare for the future.
1994Oct 24The Clinton administration announced that the U.S. budget deficit had fallen to $203 billion in the just-completed fiscal year.
1995Oct 24The Cleveland Indians got their first victory in the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves 7-to-6 in game three.
1996Oct 24The New York Yankees took the lead in the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves 1-0 in game five.
1997Oct 24The “Green and Blue” ballet by Bill T. Jones had its US premiere in Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall by the Lyon Opera Ballet of France.
1998Oct 24A natural gas well exploded in Bryceland, La., and killed 7 workers.
1999Oct 24The New York Yankees took game two of the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves, 7-to-2.
2000Oct 24The US signed a free trade deal with Jordan that included labor rights and environmental standards.
2001Oct 24The US House passed a $100 billion economic stimulus package.
2002Oct 24In Algeria attackers killed 21 members of the same family, including a three-month old baby, in a massacre that bore the hallmarks of Islamic extremists.
2003Oct 24California won its first anti-spam judgment when a court fined PW Marketing of Los Angeles County, $2 million for sending out millions of unsolicited e-mails telling people how to spam.
2004Oct 24The Boston Red Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-2 for a 2-0 World Series lead.
2005Oct 24Pres. Bush nominated Ben Bernanke to replace Alan Greenspan as Federal Reserve Board chairman. The DJIA move up almost 170 points.
2006Oct 24The St. Louis Cardinals gained a 2-to-1 World Series edge as they defeated the Detroit Tigers 5-0. Before Game 3 began, baseball players and owners finalized a five-year collective bargaining agreement.
2007Oct 24Pres. Bush denounced Castro’s regime and called on the Cuban people to shed his rule.
2008Oct 24PNC Financial Services Group Inc agreed to purchase ailing Ohio-based National City Corp in a government-supported $5.6 billion deal that will create the No. 5 U.S. bank by deposits.
2009Oct 24City and state officials in Los Angeles dedicated the new 10-story, $437 million police headquarters.
2010Oct 24Lady Gaga became the first singer to reach 1 billion hits on YouTube.
2011Oct 24President Barack Obama, speaking in Las Vegas, offered mortgage relief to hundreds of thousands of Americans, his latest attempt to ease the economic and political fallout of a housing crisis that has bedeviled him as he seeks a second term.
2012Oct 24FBI agents arrested NYC police Officer Gilberto Valle, a 6-year veteran, after they uncovered several of his plots to kidnap women, including one whom he threatened to cook and eat.
2013Oct 24In Ohio Ali Salim (44), a former doctor, pleaded guilty to two counts of involuntary manslaughter in the 2012 deaths of Deanna Ballman (23) and her unborn child. He had injected her with heroin.
2014Oct 24US Air Force General Philip Breedlove, NATO’s military commander, said Russia still has troops in eastern Ukraine and retains a very capable force on the border despite a partial withdrawal.
  

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