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On History Day – October 24 – Almanac

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Rosa Parks sits in front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, and posed with UPI reporter Nicholas Chriss on December 21, 1956, a year after she refused to give way to a white man and was arrested. Parks passed away on October 24, 2005. UPI file photo

Today is Sunday, October 24, the 297th day of 2021 with 68 to follow.

The moon is declining. The morning stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Neptune, Saturn, and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Neptune, Saturn, Uranus and Venus.


People born on this date are under the sign of Scorpio. They include journalist Sarah Josepha Hale, author of “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” in 1788; lawyer Belva Lockwood, the first female candidate for President of the United States, in 1830; cartoonist Bob Kane, creator of Batman, in 1915; member of the YA Tittle Football Hall of Fame in 1926; the artist JP “The Big Bopper” Richardson in 1930; former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman in 1936 (85); actor David Nelson in 1936; actor F. Murray Abraham in 1939 (82); actor Kevin Kline in 1947 (74); former NAACP president Kweisi Mfume in 1948 (73); singer Monica Arnold in 1980 (41); the model Tila Tequila, born Thien Thanh Thi Nguyen, in 1981 (40 years old); pop singer Adrienne Bailon in 1983 (38); singer Drake Graham in 1986 (35); actor Oliver Jackson Cohen in 1986 (35); American ice dancer Charlie White, Olympic gold medalist in 1987 (34); actor David Castañeda in 1989 (32).


At this date in history:

In 1648, the Treaty of Westphalia put an end to the Thirty Years’ War in Europe.

In 1861, the first telegram was transmitted across the United States from the Chief Justice of California Stephen Field to US President Abraham Lincoln in Washington.

In 1901, daredevil Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to cross Niagara Falls in a barrel.

In 1929, $ 5 billion in market value was washed away by the biggest sales wave in New York Stock Exchange history. The Wall Street crash of 1929 marked the start of a 10-year depression that affected the entire Western world.

In 1931, the George Washington Bridge in New York City was opened to public traffic.

By 1962, the blockade of Cuba was in effect, with a ring of American warships and planes ordered to block, by any means, further deliveries of aggressive weapons to Fidel Castro.

In 1992, the Toronto Blue Jays became the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.

In 2002, police arrested two suspects in a three-week spate of sniper attacks in the Washington area that killed 10 people and injured three others. John Allen Muhammad, 41, and John Lee Malvo, 17, were found asleep in a car at a rest area near Frederick, Md. Both were doomed. Muhammad was executed and Malvo sentenced to life in prison.

In 2003, an era in aviation history came to an end when the supersonic Concorde took off from New York to London on its last flight.

In 2005, civil rights icon Rosa Parks passed away at the age of 92. Parks gave new impetus to the rights movement in 1955 when she refused to give way to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama.

In 2009, US President Barack Obama declared a national emergency related to the outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus, also known as swine flu, to help local authorities deal with the pandemic. Medical authorities put the death toll in the United States at 530 with thousands of hospitalizations.

In 2012, a final 41 mile stretch of Texas Highway 130, a toll road from Mustang Ridge, south of Austin, to Seguin, opened with the highest speed limit in the United States – 85 mph.

In 2012, Hurricane Sandy first made landfall in Jamaica, killing two people there. The storm would cause tens of billions of dollars in the northeastern United States and kill more than 200 people in its path.

In 2018, someone in South Carolina won the biggest lottery jackpot in US history – $ 1.6 billion – after three months without a Mega Millions winner.

In 2019, the body of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco was exhumed from the Valley of the Dead in San Lorenzo de El Escorial to be transferred to Mingorrubio-El Pardo.


Thought for the day: “There is always room at the top.” – American statesman Daniel Webster

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