The October 24th is the 297e Jour of the Année (298e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 68 days before the end of the year.
Events
1 to 1900
XXe century
XXIe century
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2002 :
- After having sown terror during 22 days, two suspects - a 41 year old former serviceman and a 17 year old teenager, John Allen Muhammad and John Lee Malvo - is stopped then accused in the Maryland within the framework of the investigation into the embusqué gunner which made ten died and three seriously injureds in the area of Washington.
- the Libya makes the decision to leave the Arab Ligue.
- 2003 :
- the Harmony, the only civil supersonic aircraft in the world, takes off of New York for its last commercial flight under the colors of British Airways.
- For the first time, Israel returns public a detailed chart of safety the fence which could encircle tens of thousands of Palestinians, cutting them of the remainder of the the West Bank, while preserving 80% of the Jewish colonies on the Israeli side of the wall.
- 2004 :
- about fifty Iraqi soldiers, as a civilian and without weapons, are killed in the east of the Iraq in a ambush asserted by the group Al-Zarqaoui.
- the outgoing president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali is re-elected in Tunisia for fourth a five years mandate with more than 94% of the votes.
- 2005 :
- the Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin gives her green light to the opening of 15% of the capital EDF with the private one.
- After having crossed the Jamaica, Haiti, the Mexico and Cuba, the Ouragan Wilma falls down on the Florida making 21 victims and whose damage could reach 10 billion dollards (8,32 billion euros).
- Three trapped vehicles explode close to the Palestine hotel, where many foreign journalists with Baghdad place, making 20 dead; this attack will be asserted by Al-Qaida in Iraq.
Births
Death
- 996: Hugues Capet, king de France (987 - 996), founder of the dynasty capétienne (° towards 940).
- 1260 : Saif AD-DIN Qutuz, sultan Mameluke of Egypt
- 1375: The king Valdemar IV of Denmark (C. 1320)
- 1537: Jeanne Seymour, queen of Henry VIII of England (° 1508 or 1509)
- 1601: Tycho Brahé, astronomer Danish (° December 14th 1546).
- 1655 : Pierre Gassendi, mathematician, philosopher and astronomer French (° January 22nd 1592).
- 1725 : Alessandro Scarlatti, Italian type-setter (° May 2nd 1660)
- 1726: Jean Boivin the Junior, known as Boivin of Villeneuve, French academician (° September 1st 1663)
- 1852: Daniel Webster, lawyer and politician states-unien (° January 18th 1782)
- 1898: Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, painter French (° December 14th 1824)
- 1915: Desired Charnay, archeologist French (° May 2nd 1828)
- 1938: Ernst Barlach, German sculptor (° January 2nd 1870)
- 1942: Dimitri Amilakvari, soldier French (° October 31st 1906)
- 1944: Louis Renault, industrial French (° February 12th 1877)
- 1945: Vidkun Quisling, military Norwegian (° July 18th 1887)
- 1957: Christian Dior, dressmaker French (° January 21st 1905).
- 1971 : Joseph Siffert, Swiss pilot of Formula 1 (° July 7th 1936).
- 1972 : Jackie Robinson, player of baseball states-unien, first black professional player (° January 31st 1919)
- 1974: David Oïstrakh, Ukrainian violinist (° September 30th 1908)
- 1976: Helen Gaige, zoologist states-unienne (° November 24th 1890).
- 1989
- 1991: Gene Roddenberry, producer and writer (creative of Star Trek) (° August 19th 1921).
- 1996 : Sir Gladwyn Jebb, diplomatic British, first General secretary of UNO by interim (° April 25th 1900).
- 2001 :
- 2002: Adolph Green, theater and movie actor states-unien (° December 2nd 1914)
- 2003: Bob Bailey, former player of hockey of the Maple Leafs of Toronto, twice member elect of the Cut Calder.
- 2005 :
Celebrations
Catholic and orthodoxe saints
See too
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