About October 24
October 24, 2025 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.
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Scorpio is the sun 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.
What Happened On October 24
- 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.
- 1360 –The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years’ War.
- 1648 –The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years’ War.
- 1812 –Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes place near Moscow.
- 1857 –Sheffield F.C., the world’s first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
- 1861 –The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express.
- 1901 –Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
- 1944 –World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku, and the battleship Musashi are sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
- 1946 –A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
- 1949 –The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
- 1957 –The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
- 1973 –Yom Kippur War ends
- 1980 –The government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union
- 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.
- 2005 –Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in 35 direct 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
- 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.
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