On This Day:
Friday October 24, 2014 This is the 297th day of the year, with 68 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: first Olympic champion The first Olympic champion listed in the records was Coroebus of Elis, a cook, who won the sprint race in 776 BC.
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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