On This Day:
Thursday October 24, 2013 This is the 297th day of the year, with 68 days remaining in 2013. Fact of the Day: Lincoln Logs Lincoln Logs were invented by John Lloyd Wright, the son of famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The inspiration for Lincoln Logs came in 1916 when 24-year-old John took a trip to Tokyo, Japan, where Frank Lloyd Wright was building the Imperial Hotel. John watched workers build the earthquake-proof structure using the revolutionary technique of interlocking beams. When John returned to America, he created Lincoln Logs, which were named for President Abraham Lincoln and originally made of redwood.
Holidays United Nations Day.
Zambia: Independence Day.
Events 439 - Carthage, Roman city in North Africa, fell to Genseric and the Vandals.
1648 - The Treaty of Westphalia was signed, ending the Thirty Years' War in Europe.
1795 - The last independent Polish territory was divided between Prussia, Austria, and Russia, and the country of Poland ceased to exist.
1861 - The first transcontinental telegraph message was sent by Justice Stephen J. Field of California to President Abraham Lincoln. This put the Pony Express out of business.
1897 - The first comic strip appeared in the Sunday color supplement of the "New York Journal," called the "Yellow Kid."
1901 - Annie Edson Taylor, a 43-year-old daredevil widow, became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1929 - Black Thursday, the first day of the stock market crash which began the Great Depression.
1931 - The George Washington Bridge opened, spanning the Hudson River in New York City.
1939 - Nylon stockings went on sale, in Wilmington, Delaware.
1940 - The 40-hour work week went into effect in the U.S., under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
1945 - The United Nations charter took effect.
1962 - During the Cuban Missile Crisis, U.S. military forces went to DEFCON 2, the highest military alert ever reached in the postwar era, as military commanders prepared for full-scale war with the Soviet Union.
1987 - The Teamsters Union was welcomed back to the AFL-CIO after being expelled 30 years earlier.
1989 - Reverend Jim Bakker, television evangelist, was sentenced to 45 years is prison and fined $500,000 for his conviction on 24 counts of fraud and conspiracy.
2002 - Authorities arrested Army veteran John Allen Muhammad and teenager Lee Boyd Malvo in connection with the Washington, D.C.-area sniper attacks.
2003 - Three British Airways Concordes landed at London's Heathrow Airport for the final time, ending an era of supersonic travel across the Atlantic.
2006 - Justice Rutherford of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice struck down the "motive clause," an important part of the Canadian Anti-Terrorism Act.
Births 1632 - Anton van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microscope pioneer.
1767 - Jacques Lafitte, French banker and politician.
1904 - Moss Hart, American playwright and director.
1915 - Bob Kane, American comic book artist and writer best known for creating "Batman."
1926 - Y.A. Tittle, pro football Hall-of-Famer.
1939 - F. Murray Abraham, American actor.
1966 - Roman Abramovich, Russian oil magnate.
1967 - Jacqueline McKenzie, Australian actress.
1972 - Scott Peterson, a former fertilizer salesman convicted of the murder of his wife Laci and unborn son Conner Peterson.
1975 - Juan Pablo Ángel, Colombian football striker.
1983 - Brian Vickers, American race car driver.
Deaths 1537 - Jane Seymour, the third wife of England's King Henry VIII, 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward (later King Edward VI).
1601 - Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer.
1922 - George Cadbury, British chocolate and cocoa manufacturer.
1944 - Louis Renault, a French industrialist and automobile industry pioneer.
1972 - Jackie Robinson, American baseball player.
1991 - Gene Roddenberry, American television screenwriter and producer.
2004 - Ricky Hendrick (born Joseph Riddick Hendrick IV), American race car driver and team owner.
2005 - Rosa Parks, African American seamstress and civil rights activist, whom the U.S. Congress dubbed the "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement."
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