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October 24 is the 297th day of the year (298th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 68 days remaining.

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69 - Second Battle of Bedriacum , forces under Antonius Primus, the commander of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces of Emperor Vitellius.
1360 - The Treaty of Brétigny was ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
1648 - Peace of Westphalia signed. End of Thirty Years' War
1795 - Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian CommonwealthThe Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (or The Republic of the Two Nations Rzeczpospolita Obojga Narodow in Polish; Latin: Regnum Serenissima Poloniae; Belarusian: ) was a federal monarchy- republic formed by the Kingdom of Poland and Grand Duchy of Lithuania was completely divided between AustriaAustria is a landlocked country in Central Europe, a federation of nine states. Austria is bordered by Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the, PrussiaThe word Prussia ( German: Preussen (Preussen Polish: Prusy Lithuanian: Prusai Latin: Borussia has had various (often contradictory) meanings: The land of the Baltic Prussians (in what is now parts of southern Lithuania, the Kaliningrad exclave of Russia and RussiaThe Russian Federation ( Russian: , transliteration: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya or Rossijskaja Federacija , or Russia (Russian: , transliteration: Rossiya or Rossija , is a country that stretches over a vast expanse of eastern Europe and northern Asia. With
1812Events January 1 the Allgemeines Burgerliches Gesetzbuch, the Austrian civil code enters into force in the Austrian Empire February 2 Russia establishes a fur trading colony at Fort Ross, California February 7 The strongest in a series of massive earthqua - Battle of MaloyaroslavetsThe Battle of Maloyaroslavets took place on October 24 1812, between the Russians, under Marshal Kutuzov, and part of the corps of Eugene de Beauharnais, Napoleon's son-in-law, under General Delzons with numbered about 20,000 strong. On October 19, Napole
18611861 is a common year starting on Tuesday. Events January January 1 Benito Juarez captures Mexico City January 2 Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I January 3 American Civil War: Delaware votes not to secede from the United - First transcontinental telegraph line completed, ending the Pony Express
1917 - Battle of Caporetto started on the Austro- Italian front of World War I
1929 - " Black Thursday" crash of the New York Stock Exchange.
1930 - A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousted Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was then installed as "provisional president."
1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia
1944 - Zuikaku Japanese aircraft carrier destroyed
1945 - Founding of the United Nations
1947 - Walt Disney testifies to the House Unamerican Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1954 - Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam
1955 - The body of Manolo Just , a probable bisexual, is found in the Mexico apartment of Mary Rogers, daughter of Will Rogers. Homicide is suspected, but never proven.
1956 - Soviet Union invades Hungary
1960 - An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baykonur space facility, killing 165. Among the dead is field marshall Mitrofan Nedelin , whose death is reported to have occurred in a plane crash.
1964 - Northern Rhodesia gained independence from the United Kingdom and became the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia remained a colony)
1970 - Salvador Allende elected President of Chile
1973 - Yom Kippur War ends
1980 - Government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union
1989 - Televangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 45 years in prison and a 500,000 USD fine for defrauding investors of 3.7 million USD.
1998 - Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/ asteroid mission
1998 - Tropical Storm Mitch reached hurricane strength.
2002 - Police arrested spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around Washington, DC.
2003 - Concorde made its last commercial flight, bringing the era of airliner supersonic transport to a close, at least for the time being.

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