24 October

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.

## Births

* 51 - Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)
* 1378 - David Stewart, Duke o Rothesay, heir tae the Scots throne (d. 1402)
* 1632 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch scientist (d. 1723)
* 1682 - William Aikman, Scots penter (d. 1731)
* 1765 - James Mackintosh, Scots juirist, politeecian an historian (d. 1832)
* 1796 - David Roberts, Scots penter (d. 1864)
* 1804 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German pheesicist (d. 1891)
* 1838 - Annie Edson Taylor, American teacher an adventurer (d. 1921)
* 1891 - Rafael Trujillo, Preses o the Dominican Republic (d. 1961)
* 1930 - The Big Bopper, American muisicker (d. 1959)
* 1932 - Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French pheesicist (d. 2007)
* 1936 - Bill Wyman, Inglis muisicker
* 1939 - F. Murray Abraham, American actor
* 1947 - Kevin Kline, American actor
* 1950 - Asa Hartford, Scots fitbawer
* 1954 - Malcolm Turnbull, 29t Prime Meenister o Australie
* 1966 - Roman Abramovich, Roushie businessman
* 1967 - Esther McVey, Inglis politeecian
* 1973 - Jackie McNamara, Scots fitbawer
* 1981 - Tila Tequila, American model, sangster an actress
* 1985 - Wayne Rooney, Inglis fitbawer
* 1986 - John Ruddy, Inglis fitbawer
* 1986 - Drake, Canadian sangster
* 1989 - PewDiePie, Swadish YouTube personality
* 1990 - Ilkay Gündogan, German fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1537 - Jane Seymour, Queen Consort o Ingland
* 1601 - Tycho Brahe, Dens astronomer (b. 1546)
* 1842 - Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean unthirldom leader (b. 1778)
* 1945 - Vidkun Quisling, Norse politeecian (b. 1887)
* 1972 - Jackie Robinson, American basebaw player (b. 1919)
* 1991 - Gene Roddenberry, American telly writer (b. 1921)
* 2005 - Rosa Parks, American activist (b. 1913)
* 2006 - William Montgomery Watt, Scots historian (b. 1909)
* 2012 - Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (b. 1918)
* 2015 - Maureen O'Hara, Erse-American actress (b. 1920)
* 2017 - Fats Domino, American sangster an pianist (b. 1928)

## Halidays

* Independence Day (Zambie)
* Unitit Naitions Day