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
- 1260 –Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
- 1851 –William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel (moon) orbiting Uranus.
- 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.
- 1911 –Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
- 1912 –First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with the Serbian victory.
- 1926 –Harry Houdini’s last performance, which is at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
- 1929 –“Black Thursday” stock market crash on the New York Stock Exchange.
- 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.”
- 1947 –Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
- 1949 –The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
- 1954 –Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
- 1957 –The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
- 1960 –Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union’s Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash
- 1973 –Yom Kippur War ends
- 1980 –The government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union
- 1998 –Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
- 2002 –Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
- 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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