24 October

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The 24t o October is the 297t day o the year (298t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 68 days bidin.

Events

1648 - The Peace o Westphalie ends the Thirty Years' War.
1851 - William Lassell discovers Uranus's muins o Ariel an Umbriel.
1901 - American schuilteacher Annie Edson Taylor survives travellin ower Niagara Faws in a barrel.
1902 - The ceety o Quetzaltenango in Guatemala is awmaist completely destroyed bi an eruption o the Santa Maria volcanae.
1929 - Black Fuirsday in the Wall Street economic crash.
1931 - The George Washington Brig, linking New York tae New Jersey, opens.
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopie.
1945 - The Unitit Naitions are foondit.
1960 - An R-16 ballistic missile splodes on the launch pad o the Soviet Union's Baikonur space facility (in wha is nou Kazakhstan).
1964 - Zambie gains unthirldom frae the Unitit Kinrick.
1964 - The 1964 Simmer Olympics in Tokyo end.
1970 - Salvador Allende becomes Preses o Chile.
1975 - 90% o female wirkers in Iceland go on strike.
2001 - Twa lorries collide in the Gotthard Road Tunnel in Swisserland, causin a fire that kills 11 fowk.
2003 - Concorde maks its feenal flicht frae New York tae Lunnon.
2004 - Fitbaa: Manchester United end Arsenal's 49-gemme unbeaten league run.
2008 - Mercats plummet aroond the warld o "Black Fryday".
2014 - Johann Lamont demits as leader o the Scots Labour Pairty.
2019 - The remains o Spaingie dictator Francisco Franco are remuivit frae the Valley o the Fallen, an reburied in a cemetery north o Madrid.