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

  •    996: Advent of Robert II, wire of Hugues Capet deceased.

  • 1260 : The Cathédrale of Chartres is devoted in the presence of the king more known Louis IX under the name of Saint-Louis.
  • 1301 : Arrest of Bernard Saisset, bishop of Pamiers in favor of the ideas of the pope Boniface VIII, for treason. Its lawsuit starts a violent polemic between legists and theologists of the French and papal camps. The pope reprimand Philippe Beautiful the, which retorts while making proclaim the independence of monarchy to temporal by the assembly of the States, to which the legist Pierre Flote had presented a falsified bubble.
  • 1360 : The king of France Jean II of France known as Jean the Good, is released against a ransom of 3 and transfer ecu million of the Aquitaine to the England.
  • 1599 : Henri IV divorce of with Marguerite de Valois (the Margot queen), which did not give him of heir.
  • 1648 :
    • the Traité of Westphalia (signed with Münster) puts an end to the Guerre Thirty Year old.
    • the independence of the Netherlands is recognized by the European States.
  • 1681 : Louis XIV enters Strasbourg solemnly, annexing the free city of the Saint Germanic Roman Empire.
  • 1790 : In France, the constituent Assembly adopts the tricolor first national symbol: a civil and military house.
  • 1793 : Decree of Convention instituting the republican Calendar.
  • 1795 : The Poland is divided between the Prussia, the Austria and the Russia.
  • 1798 : The revolts against the French occupant spread in Belgium.
  • 1800 : In France, attempt at plot to assassinate the first consul Napoleon Bonaparte at the exit of the Opera (Conspiracy of the daggers).
  • 1860 : The China ratifies the treaties signed with the France and the England.
  • 1869 : With Madrid (Spain), alternate of Agustín Perera, Spanish Matador.
  • 1870 : The Décret Crémieux grants French nationality to the Jews of Algeria.

XXe century

  • 1902 : Alphonse Bertillon, chief of the service of the Criminal records office to the police headquarter of Paris, uses for the first time the digital fingerprints in an investigation.

  • 1909 : The Russia and the Italy sign an agreement tending to preserve the status quo in the Balkans.
  • 1916 : The French troops of the grouping Mangin take again, in four hours, the Fort of Douaumont.
  • 1917 :
    • Lénine prepares the attack of Pétrograd against Kerensky, which will take place the following day.
    • Demolished of Italian in front of the Austria-Hungary with Caporetto.
  • 1929 : Black Thursday - first day of the Crash of the Stock Exchange New York, marking the beginning of the Great depression of the Thirties.
  • 1934: The Mahatma Gandhi withdraws Indian National congress .
  • 1940 : The Maréchal Pétain meets Adolf Hitler with Montoire-on-the-Dormouse and launches the Collaboration.
  • 1945 : The Charte of the United Nations comes into force after its ratification by a 29e country: the Soviet Union.
  • 1950 : In France, the president of the Council Rene Pleven exposes in front of the National Assembly the project to create a European army, which will lead to the fallen through attempt at European Community of Defense (CED).
  • 1953 : With alternative Valence (Spain), of Handbook Jiménez Díaz known as “Chicuelo II”, Spanish Matador .
  • 1954 : The state of emergency is proclaimed with the Pakistan.
  • 1961 : Protests are high with the the United Nations after a powerful Soviet nuclear test .
  • 1962 : The the United States establish a blockade of Cuba.
  • 1964 : The Rhodesia of North becomes an independent Republic, under the name of Zambia.
  • 1967 : The Israeli artillery fire of Egyptian oil installations of Suez.
  • 1970 : Salvador Allende becomes President of the Chile.
  • 1973 : End of the War of Kippour.
  • 1975 : The ambassador of Turkey to Paris is assassinated in an attack asserted by Armenian extremists.
  • 1980 : Lech Walesa refuses to accept the statutes of Solidarność ratified by the courts, nonin conformity, according to him, with the agreements concluded with the government.
  • 2000 : The Yugoslav president Vojislav Kostunica recognizes for the first time that the Serb forces committed war crimes to the Kosovo the previous year.

XXIe century

  • 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

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

  • Martyrs of Najran (+ towards 523), 895 martyrs in the Yemen of which holy Aréthas.

  • Magloire de Dol (+ towards 575), hermit.
  • Senoch de Tiffauges (+ towards 576), monk in Touraine.
  • Holy Florentin, Abbot of the monastery of the Saint-Apostles (10th century)

See too

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