Editing October 24 (section)

==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 69]] &ndash; In the [[Second Battle of Bedriacum]], troops loyal to [[Vespasian]] defeat those of Emperor [[Vitellius]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Publius Cornelius Tacitus|title=Agricola and Germany|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ENwFjRIyq_UC&pg=PA67|year=1999|publisher=Oxford University Press, UK|isbn=978-0-19-283300-6|page=67|access-date=17 January 2020|archive-date=8 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200708071109/https://books.google.com/books?id=ENwFjRIyq_UC&pg=PA67|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1260]] &ndash; [[Chartres Cathedral]] is dedicated in the presence of King [[Louis IX of France]].<ref>{{cite book|author1=Marcel Aubert|author2=J. Adolf Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth|author3=Hans Hellmut Hofstätter|title=High Gothic Art|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R8AMAQAAIAAJ|year=1964|publisher=Methuen|page=68|isbn=9789070053376|access-date=2020-01-17|archive-date=2020-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819204827/https://books.google.com/books?id=R8AMAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1260   &ndash; After defeating the [[Ilkhanate|Mongols]] at the [[Battle of Ain Jalut]] and assassinating the previous Mamluk sultan, [[Qutuz]], [[Baybars]] ascends to the Egyptian throne as the fourth sultan of the [[Mamluk Sultanate]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Petry |first=Carl F. |title=The Mamluk Sultanate: A History |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2022 |isbn=9781108557382 |page=10 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1360]] &ndash; The [[Treaty of Brétigny]] is ratified, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.<ref>{{cite book|author=John F. Le Patourel|title=Feudal Empires|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mu3eBAAAQBAJ&pg=RA3-PA19|year=1984|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-0-8264-3810-2|pages=3|access-date=17 January 2020|archive-date=19 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819145806/https://books.google.com/books?id=mu3eBAAAQBAJ&pg=RA3-PA19|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1590]] &ndash; [[John White (colonist and artist)|John White]], the governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
*[[1596]] &ndash; The [[2nd Spanish Armada|second Spanish armada]] sets sail to strike against England, but is smashed by storms off [[Cape Finisterre]] forcing a retreat to port.<ref name="Tenace">{{cite journal|last=Tenace|first=Edward|title=A Strategy of Reaction: The Armadas of 1596 and 1597 and the Spanish Struggle for European Hegemony|journal=English Historical Review|date=2003|volume=118|series=Oxford Journals|issue=478|pages=867–68|doi=10.1093/ehr/118.478.855}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1641]] &ndash; [[Felim O'Neill of Kinard]], the leader of the [[Irish Rebellion of 1641|Irish Rebellion]], issues his [[Proclamation of Dungannon]], justifying the uprising and declaring continued loyalty to King [[Charles I of England]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir John Thomas Gilbert|title=A Contemporary History of Affairs in Ireland, from 1641 to 1652|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mSkdAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA362|year=1879|publisher=For the Irish archaeological and Celtic society|pages=2|access-date=2020-01-17|archive-date=2020-08-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200807014733/https://books.google.com/books?id=mSkdAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA362|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1648]] &ndash; The [[Peace of Westphalia]] is signed, marking the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Eighty Years' War.
*[[1795]] &ndash; Poland is [[Third Partition of Poland|completely consumed]] by Russia, Prussia and Austria.
*[[1812]] &ndash; Napoleonic Wars: The [[Battle of Maloyaroslavets]] takes place near Moscow.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gregory Fremont-Barnes|title=The encyclopedia of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars: a political, social, and military history|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U4IRAQAAMAAJ|year= 2006|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-1-85109-646-6|page=416|access-date=2020-01-17|archive-date=2020-08-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806035429/https://books.google.com/books?id=U4IRAQAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[Treaty of Gulistan]]: The [[Russo-Persian War (1804–1813)|Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813]] comes to a close with the signing of the [[Treaty of Gulistan]], under which terms [[Qajar Iran]] agrees to cede the bulk of its Caucasian territories, which comprise much of modern [[Dagestan]], [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]], [[Armenia]], and [[Azerbaijan]], to the [[Russian Empire]].<ref>{{Cite book |title=Russia at War: From the Mongol Conquest to Afghanistan, Chechnya, and Beyond |publisher=[[ABC-Clio]] |year=2015 |editor-last=Dowling |editor-first=Timothy C. |volume=2 |location=Santa Barbara, CA |pages=728–729 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[William Lassell]] discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus.
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Sheffield F.C.]], the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in England.
*[[1860]] &ndash; [[Convention of Peking]]: The [[Second Opium War]] formally comes to a close, with [[Qing dynasty|Qing China]] ceding [[Kowloon]] in perpetuity to the victorious [[British Empire]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bruce |first=James |date=15 December 1860 |title=Convention of Peace Between Her Majesty and the Emperor of China |pages=270–271 |work=[[Hong Kong Government Gazette]] |url=https://webb-site.com/codocs/ConventionOfPeking.pdf |access-date=24 October 2023}}</ref>
*[[1861]] &ndash; The [[first transcontinental telegraph]] line across the United States is completed.
*[[1871]] &ndash; An estimated 17 to 22 Chinese immigrants are [[Chinese massacre of 1871|lynched]] in Los Angeles, California.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gonzales-Day|first=Ken|title=Lynching in the West, 1850–1935|location=Durham, N.C.|publisher=Duke University Press|date=2006|isbn=9780822337812|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Brtdets-U0kC|pages=80–82}}</ref>
*[[1876]] &ndash; [[Shinpūren rebellion]]: Upset at the Westernisation of [[Meiji period|Meiji Japan]] and the abolition of the [[Edo society|Tokugawa feudal hierarchy]], the ''Keishintō'', a group of extremist [[Shinto]] [[shizoku|former samurai]], launch a surprise attack against the Meiji government in [[Kumamoto Prefecture]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rogers |first=John M. |title=New Directions in the Study of Meiji Japan |publisher=[[Brill Publishers]] |year=1997 |isbn=9004107355 |editor-last=Hardacre |editor-first=Helen |location=Leiden, the Netherlands |pages=408–409 |language=en |chapter=Divine Destruction: the Shinpūren Rebellion of 1876 |editor-last2=Kern |editor-first2=Adam L.}}</ref>
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Normanton incident]]: As the British merchant vessel ''Normanton'' sinks off the coast of [[Empire of Japan|Japan]], her European officers appear to commandeer the ship’s lifeboats for themselves, leaving her Asian crew and passengers to die and conjuring significant political outrage in Japan.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Toyoda |first=Tetsuya |title=Modern Japanese Political Thought and International Relations |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |year=2018 |isbn=9781786603692 |editor-last=Rösch |editor-first=Felix |location=London|page=46 |language=en |chapter=Japan’s Early Challenge to Eurocentrism and the World Court |editor-last2=Watanabe |editor-first2=Atsuko}}</ref>
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Henry Parkes]] delivers the [[Tenterfield Oration]], effectively starting the federation process in Australia.<ref>{{cite book|author=Helen Irving|title=The Centenary Companion to Australian Federation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AbFbCyp0isMC&pg=PA429|year= 1999|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-57314-6|page=429|access-date=17 January 2020|archive-date=18 August 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818214951/https://books.google.com/books?id=AbFbCyp0isMC&pg=PA429|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1894]] &ndash; [[First Sino-Japanese War]]: [[Battle of Jiuliancheng]]: Under the command of General [[Yamagata Aritomo]], the [[Imperial Japanese Army]] covertly crosses the [[Yalu River]] into [[Qing dynasty|Qing]] territory and launches an assault on the fortifications at [[Hushan Great Wall|Hushan]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Paine |first=S. C. M. |title=The Sino-Japanese War of 1894–1895: Perceptions, Power, and Primacy |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |year=2010 |isbn=9780511550188 |pages=200–201 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; U.S. Government announces plans to buy [[Danish West Indies]] for $7 million.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jacques|last=Legrand|title=Chronicle of the 20th Century|publisher=Ecam Publication|year=1987|page=20|isbn=0-942191-01-3}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; [[Annie Edson Taylor]] becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.<ref>{{cite book|title=Coopers International Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pSB9AAAAMAAJ|year=1972|page=161|access-date=2020-01-17|archive-date=2020-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819181022/https://books.google.com/books?id=pSB9AAAAMAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1902]] &ndash; Guatemala's [[1902 eruption of Santa María|Santa María volcano begins to erupt]], becoming the third-largest eruption of the 20th century.<ref name="Williams83">{{cite journal |last1=Williams |first1=Stanley N. |last2=Self |first2=Stephen |title=The October 1902 plinian eruption of Santa Maria volcano, Guatemala |journal=Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research |date=1983 |volume=16 |issue=1–2 |pages=33–56 |doi=10.1016/0377-0273(83)90083-5|bibcode=1983JVGR...16...33W }}</ref>
*[[1911]] &ndash; [[Orville Wright]] remains in the air nine minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
*[[1912]] &ndash; [[First Balkan War]]: The [[Battle of Kirk Kilisse]] concludes with a Bulgarian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
*  1912   &ndash; First Balkan War: The [[Battle of Kumanovo]] concludes with the Serbian victory against the Ottoman Empire.
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[World War I]]: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat at the [[Battle of Caporetto]] on the Austro-Italian front.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holmes |first1=Richard |title=A guide to battles : decisive conflicts in history |date=2018 |location=Oxford |isbn=9780198828976 |page=204 |edition=Reissued in Oxford Reference Collection }}</ref>
*[[1918]] &ndash; World War I: Italian victory in the [[Battle of Vittorio Veneto]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Paoletti|first=Ciro|year=2008|title=A Military History of Italy|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|page=150|isbn=978-0-275-98505-9}}</ref>
*[[1926]] &ndash; [[Harry Houdini]]'s last performance takes place at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit.
*[[1929]] &ndash; "[[Wall Street Crash of 1929|Black Thursday]]" on the New York Stock Exchange.
*[[1930]] &ndash; A bloodless [[Brazilian Revolution of 1930|coup d'état]] in Brazil ends the First Republic, replacing it with the Vargas Era.
*[[1931]] &ndash; The [[George Washington Bridge]] opens to public traffic over the Hudson River.
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: Japan's center force is temporarily repulsed in the [[Battle of Leyte Gulf]].
*1944 &ndash; World War II: The [[USS Shark (SS-314)|USS ''Shark'' (SS-314)]] was lost with all 87 hands in the [[Bashi Channel|Bashi Straits]] after torpedoing the Japanese freighter ''[[Arisan Maru]]''.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Today in Naval History - October 24 |url=https://www.history.navy.mil/today-in-history/october-24.html |access-date=2024-10-24 |website=Naval History and Heritage Command |language=en-US}}</ref>
*1944 &ndash; World War II: The [[USS Tang (SS-306)|USS ''Tang'' (SS-306)]] sank in the [[Taiwan Strait|Formosa Strait]] after being struck by its own torpedo, with 78 of its crew lost.<ref name=":0" />
*[[1945]] &ndash; The [[United Nations Charter]] comes into effect.
*[[1946]] &ndash; A camera on board the [[V-2 No. 13]] rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
*[[1947]] &ndash; Famed animator [[Walt Disney]] testifies before the [[House Un-American Activities Committee]], naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
*  1947   &ndash; [[United Air Lines Flight 608]] crashes in the [[Bryce Canyon National Park]] in [[Garfield County, Utah]], while attempting an [[emergency landing]] at [[Bryce Canyon Airport]], killing 52 people.<ref name="ASN241047">{{cite web |title=NC37510 accident description |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19471024-0 |access-date=December 4, 2013 |publisher=Aviation Safety Network}}</ref>
*[[1949]] &ndash; The cornerstone of the [[United Nations Headquarters]] is laid.
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China]]: The [[People’s Liberation Army]] ceases all military operations in [[Tibet]], ending the [[Battle of Chamdo]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Goldstein |first=Melvyn C. |title=A History of Modern Tibet, 1913–1951: The Demise of the Lamaist State |publisher=[[University of California Press]] |year=1989 |isbn=9788121505826 |location=Berkeley |pages=701–703 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1954]] &ndash; US President [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] pledges United States support to [[South Vietnam]].
*[[1957]] &ndash; The United States Air Force starts the [[X-20 Dyna-Soar]] crewed space program.
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Nedelin catastrophe]]: An [[R-16 (missile)|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]].
*[[1963]] &ndash; An oxygen leak from an [[R-9 Desna]] missile at the Baikonur Cosmodrome triggers a fire that kills seven people.
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Northern Rhodesia]] gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes Zambia.<ref>{{cite book|author=Mbita Chintundya Chitala|title=Not yet democracy: the transition of the twin process of political and economic reform in Zambia (1991–2001)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sSwWAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Zambia Research Foundation|page=319|isbn=9789982816014|access-date=2020-01-17|archive-date=2020-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819221347/https://books.google.com/books?id=sSwWAQAAIAAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1975]] &ndash; In Iceland, 90% of women [[1975 Icelandic women's strike|take part in a national strike]], refusing to work in protest of gender inequality.<ref>{{cite book|author=Bruce Olav Solheim|title=On Top of the World: Women's Political Leadership in Scandinavia and Beyond|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rifHpr-tGFoC&pg=PA51|year=2000|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-31000-3|page=51|access-date=2020-01-17|archive-date=2020-08-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819205924/https://books.google.com/books?id=rifHpr-tGFoC&pg=PA51|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1980]] &ndash; The government of Poland legalizes the [[Solidarity (Polish trade union)|Solidarity trade union]]. 
*[[1986]] &ndash; [[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.
*[[1990]] &ndash; Italian prime minister [[Giulio Andreotti]] reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of [[Operation Gladio|Gladio]], the Italian NATO force formed in 1956, intended to be activated in the event of a Warsaw Pact invasion.
*[[1992]] &ndash; The [[Toronto Blue Jays]] become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World Series.
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[Deep Space 1]] is launched to explore the asteroid belt and test new spacecraft technologies.
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[Concorde]] makes its last commercial flight.
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal Football Club]] loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record in the Premier League.
*[[2005]] &ndash; [[Hurricane Wilma]] makes landfall in Florida, resulting in 35 direct and 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[Chang'e 1]], the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
*[[2008]] &ndash; "[[Stock market crash#Crash of 2008–2009|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.
*[[2014]] &ndash; The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, [[Chang'e 5-T1]], which will loop behind the Moon and return to Earth.
*[[2015]] &ndash; A driver [[2015 Oklahoma State University homecoming parade attack|crashes]] into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade, killing four people and injuring 34.
*[[2016]] &ndash; A French surveillance aircraft flying to Libya [[2016 Malta Fairchild Merlin crash|crashes]] on takeoff in Malta, killing all five people on board.
*  2016   &ndash; Three heavily-armed terrorists from the [[Islamic State – Khorasan Province]] [[2016 Quetta police training college attack|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.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Masood |first=Salman |date=24 October 2016 |title=At Least 59 Die as Militants Storm Police College Near Quetta, Pakistan |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/25/world/asia/quetta-police-militants-attack.html |access-date=24 October 2023}}</ref>
*[[2018]] &ndash; The world's longest sea crossing, the [[Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge]], opens for public traffic.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Huang |first=Claire |date=25 October 2018 |title=Smooth start for world's longest sea crossing |work=[[The Straits Times]] |url=https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/smooth-start-for-worlds-longest-sea-crossing |access-date=24 October 2023}}</ref>