24 October
Notable Births
Amon-Ra St. Brown
b. 1999
American football player (born 1999)
Daya (singer)
b. 1998
American singer and songwriter
Bron Breakker
b. 1997
American professional wrestler and football player (born 1997)
Claudia Fragapane
b. 1997
British artistic gymnast
Raye
b. 1997
British singer-songwriter and record producer (born 1997)
Jaylen Brown
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Rafael Devers
b. 1996
Dominican baseball player (born 1996)
Océane Dodin
b. 1996
French tennis player (born 1996)
Garrison Mathews
b. 1996
American basketball player (born 1996)
Kyla Ross
b. 1996
American artistic gymnast (born 1996)
Vincent Leuluai
b. 1995
Australian rugby league footballer (born 1995)
Ashton Sanders
b. 1995
American actor (b. 1995)
Krystal Jung
b. 1994
American and South Korean singer and actress (born 1994)
Tereza Martincová
b. 1994
Czech tennis player (born 1994)
Sean O'Malley (fighter)
b. 1994
American mixed martial artist (born 1994)
Jalen Ramsey
b. 1994
American football player (born 1994)
Ding Liren
b. 1992
Chinese chess grandmaster (born 1992)
Bojan Dubljević
b. 1991
Montenegrin basketball player (born 1991)
İlkay Gündoğan
b. 1990
German footballer (born 1990)
Danilo Petrucci
b. 1990
Italian motorcycle racer
Notable Deaths
Sirikit
d. 2025
Queen of Thailand from 1950 to 2016
Amir Abdur-Rahim
d. 2024
American basketball player and coach (1981–2024)
Abdelaziz Barrada
d. 2024
Footballer (1989–2024)
Jeri Taylor
d. 2024
American screenwriter (1938–2024)
Leslie Jordan
d. 2022
American actor, comedian, writer and singer (1955–2022)
James Michael Tyler
d. 2021
American actor (1962–2021)
Tony Joe White
d. 2018
American singer-songwriter and musician (1943–2018)
Fats Domino
d. 2017
American pianist and singer (1928–2017)
Robert Guillaume
d. 2017
American actor (1927–2017)
Girija Devi
d. 2017
Indian classical singer (1929–2017)
Bobby Vee
d. 2016
American singer (1943–2016)
Jorge Batlle
d. 2016
38th President of Uruguay (2000–2005)
Michael Beetham
d. 2015
Marshal of the Royal Air Force (1923–2015)
Margarita Khemlin
d. 2015
Ján Chryzostom Korec
d. 2015
Slovak Jesuit priest and Roman Catholic cardinal (1924–2015)
Maureen O'Hara
d. 2015
Irish and American actress (1920–2015)
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi
d. 2014
South African middle-distance runner
S. S. Rajendran
d. 2014
Indian actor and politician (1928–2014)
Marcia Strassman
d. 2014
American actress and singer (1948–2014)
Brooke Greenberg
d. 2013
First documented case of neotenic complex syndrome (1993–2013)
On This Day in History
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2018
The world's longest sea crossing, the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, opens for public traffic.
Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge
2016
A French surveillance aircraft flying to Libya crashes on takeoff in Malta, killing all five people on board.
2016 Malta Fairchild Merlin crash
2016
Three heavily armed terrorists from the Islamic State – Khorasan Province open fire on and eventually suicide bomb a police training centre in Balochistan, Pakistan, killing at least 59 cadets and injuring more than 165 others.
Islamic State – Khorasan Province
2015
A driver deliberately crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade, killing four people and injuring 34.
2015 Oklahoma State University homecoming parade attack
2014
The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
China National Space Administration
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.
Stock market crash
2007
Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
Chang'e 1
2005
Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida, resulting in 35 direct and 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
Hurricane Wilma
2004
Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League.
Arsenal F.C.
2003
Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
Concorde
1998
Deep Space 1 is launched to explore the asteroid belt and test new spacecraft technologies.
Deep Space 1
1992
The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
Toronto Blue Jays
1990
Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian NATO force formed in 1956, intended to be activated in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion.
Giulio Andreotti
1986
Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted bombing of an El Al flight at Heathrow Airport.
Hindawi affair
1980
The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
Solidarity (Polish trade union)
1975
In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gender inequality.
1975 Icelandic women's strike
1964
Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes Zambia.
Northern Rhodesia
1963
An oxygen leak from an R-9 Desna missile at the Baikonur Cosmodrome triggers a fire that kills seven people.
R-9 Desna
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 people, including Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin.
Nedelin catastrophe
1957
The United States Air Force starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar crewed space program.
Boeing X-20 Dyna-Soar