Editing October 24 (section)

===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>