October 24th

See also: Category: October 24 Holidays

International

•   UN :
  • United Nations Day .
  • World Polio Day .
  • World Development Information Day .

National

•   Russia :
  • Memorial Day for the Fallen Missile Rocketeers ( 1960 , 1963 ) ^[2] .
  • Day of special forces .

  Religious

  Catholicism

• memory of the holy martyr Everigisil, Bishop of Cologne (circa 593 ).

  Orthodoxy: ^{[3] [4]}

• memory of the Apostle Philip, one of the seven deacons ( I century );
• memory of St. Theophanes the Confessor, creator of canons, Bishop of Nicaea (about 850 );
• memory of the Rev. Leo of Optina ( 1841 );
• Cathedral of the Rev. Optina Elders ;
• memory of the holy martyrs Filaret Velikanov and Alexander Grivsky, elders ( 1918 );
• the memory of St. Theophanes, the fasting of the Caves, in the Near Caves ( XII century );
• memory of the martyrs Zinaida and Filonilla ( I century ).

Name Day

• Catholic : Anton , Martin , Raphael .
• Orthodox : Zinaida , Theophanes , Philip .

See also: Category: October 24 events

Until the 19th century

• 1648 - The signing of the Peace of Westphalia , the end of the Thirty Years War .
• 1658 - Moliere appeared for the first time as the author and actor in front of the French king Louis XIV .
• 1745 - Empress Elizabeth commanded that cats be brought to the royal palaces to catch mice.
• 1795 - Third Section of the Commonwealth

XIX century

• 1812 - the battle of Maloyaroslavets .
• 1851 - William Lassel discovered the satellites of Uranus Ariel and Umbriel .
• 1857 - Graduates of the University of Cambridge (Great Britain) founded the world's first football team in Sheffield .
• 1861 — The world's first transcontinental telegram was transmitted by telegraph from Judge Stephen J. Field of California to US President Abraham Lincoln .
• 1877 - Battle of Gornji Dubnik .
• 1889 - refusal of the Academy of Sciences to provide S.V. Kovalevskaya scientific work in Russia.
• 1897 - the first officially recorded football match in the history of Russia was held in St. Petersburg .

XX century

• 1909 - the first demonstration flight in Russia on a Voisin plane was made by the French mechanic J. Legan, flying about 1.5 km at an altitude of 10 m on the Gatchina military field.
• 1911 - the Antarctic expedition of the Englishman Robert Falcon Scott , consisting of 12 people, set off from Cape Evans to reach the South Pole of the Earth.
• 1928 - a report was published in the Pravda newspaper that the artistic and political council of the General Repertoire Committee decided to prohibit M. Bulgakov ’s play “Running,” as “idealizing” the White Guards. The high score given to the play by Gorky , Lunacharsky , Stanislavsky , Nemirovich-Danchenko and others did not help either.
• 1929 - Black Thursday - the beginning of the stock exchange crash of 1929.
• 1935 - a five-pointed copper star made in the Donbass was installed on the spire of the Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin to replace the heraldic double-headed eagle.
• 1939
  • For the first time in the world, DuPont Corporation launched nylon stockings (in Wilmington, USA, Delaware ).
  • The USSR signed an agreement on the supply of grain and oil to Germany .
  • The gold reserve of Poland , evacuated from the Germans, arrived in Paris .
• 1941 - during the Great Patriotic War, the third largest industrial center of the USSR, Kharkov was captured by German troops.
• 1945
  • In Czechoslovakia, large-scale industry and banks were nationalized.
  • The Charter of the United Nations entered into force. The UN was created by 51 countries, which were determined to maintain peace through the development of international cooperation and collective security. Today, 192 countries are members of the UN.
• 1947 - Muslim separatists declared the Indian province of Kashmir an independent state.
• 1949 - laid the foundation stone of the current building of the UN Headquarters in New York .
• 1950
  • The Freedom Crusade Committee established the World Liberty Bell in the West Berlin City Hall. This bell sounded over Berlin on the day of the unification of the country.
  • Army special forces were created in the USSR ^[5] .
• 1960 - explosion of an experimental intercontinental missile R-16 at the launch pad of the Baikonur training ground. As a result , 74 people died , including Chief Artillery Marshal Nedelin .
• 1962 - The USSR declared a protest in connection with the blockade of Cuba launched by the United States .
• 1963 - A fire at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in one of the battle mines of the R-9 rocket. Seven people died.
• 1964 - Northern Rhodesia declared independence and changed its name to Zambia .
• 1969 - Actor Richard Burton presented actress Elizabeth Taylor with a one million dollar diamond ring.
• 1977 - the first Soviet wide-body aircraft Il-86 made a test flight.
• 1980
  • The merchant ship Poet, with 34 crew members, sailed from Philadelphia to Port Said and disappeared without a trace.
  • The independent trade union Solidarity is registered in Poland.
• 1986 - The world's largest record store is opened in London .
• 1990
  • The last nuclear test of the USSR was conducted at the Northern Testing Ground "New Earth" .
  • The Chuvash Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic proclaimed itself a union republic.
  • At Royal Canadian Mounted Police ( RCMP ), Native American officers are allowed to wear braids.
• 1992 - The National Salvation Front was created in Moscow .
• 1999 - a monument to Roksolana , the beloved wife of the Turkish Sultan Suleiman I, is unveiled in Rogatin (Ukraine).
• 2000 - the only autograph of Cleopatra discovered in the Egyptian Museum in Berlin .

21st Century

• 2007 - from the Xichang cosmodrome, with the help of the Changzheng-3A launch vehicle, the Chinese Chang'e-1 AMS was launched, intended for moon exploration.

See also: Category: Born October 24

Until the 19th century

• 51 - Domitian (assassinated in 96 ), the last Roman emperor from the Flavian dynasty (81–96).
• 1435 - Andrea della Robbia (d. 1525 ), Florentine sculptor, the largest master of polychrome glazed terracotta ( majolica ).
• 1493 - Paracelsus (d. 1541 ), Swiss physician and alchemist.
• 1632 - Anthony van Levenguk (d. 1723 ), Dutch naturalist, founder of microscopy.
• 1633 - James II (d. 1701 ), king of England, Scotland and Ireland (1685-1688).
• 1668 - Peter Brandl (d. 1735 ), Czech painter .
• 1734 - Anna Göldi (d. 1782 ), the last woman in Europe accused of witchcraft .
• 1775 - Bahadur Shah II (d. 1862 ), the last padish of the Mughal Empire (1837-1857).
• 1796 - August Platen (d. 1835 ), German poet.

XIX century

• 1804 - Wilhelm Weber (d. 1891 ), German physicist, creator of the first telegraph.
• 1809 - Eupraxia Vrevskaya (nee Wulf ; d. 1883 ), Pskov noblewoman, baroness, close friend of A.S. Pushkin .
• 1820 - Eugene Fromantin (d. 1876 ), French painter, writer, art historian.
• 1830 - Marianne North (d. 1890 ), an English traveler and artist.
• 1843 - Henryk Semiradsky (d. 1902 ), Polish and Russian painter.
• 1857 - Fedor Keller (assassinated in 1918 ), Russian general, count, one of the leaders of the White movement in southern Russia.
• 1861 - Alexei Kaledin (d. 1918 ), Russian military leader, cavalry general, White Movement activist .
• 1862 - Daniel Swarovski (d. 1956 ), founder of the Austrian crystal empire Swarovski.
• 1875 - Konstantin Yuon (d. 1958 ), Russian and Soviet artist.
• 1882
  • Huseyn Javid (d. 1941 ), Azerbaijani poet and playwright.
  • Imre Kalman (d. 1953 ), Hungarian composer, author of the operetta.
• 1886 - Grigory Ordzhonikidze (d. 1937 ), Russian revolutionary, Soviet state and party leader.
• 1895 - Alexander Frumkin (d. 1976 ), Soviet physicist-chemist, academician, founder of electrochemical kinetics.
• 1898 - Peng Dehuai (d. 1974 ), statesman and military leader of the PRC .
• 1899 - Ilya Selvinsky (d. 1968 ), Russian Soviet writer.
• 1900 - Dmitry Zhuravlev (d. 1991 ), master of art, People's Artist of the USSR.

XX century

• 1906 - Igor Savchenko (d. 1950 ), Soviet film director, screenwriter and teacher.
• 1908 - Alexey Isaev (d. 1971 ), Soviet aircraft engineer, engine engineer, Hero of Socialist Labor.
• 1910 - Ivan Boyko (d. 1975 ), Soviet military leader, twice Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1911 - Arkady Raikin (d. 1987 ), Soviet actor, comedian, director, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1913 - Arman Lahn (d. 1983 ), French writer, winner of the Goncourt Prize (1963).
• 1921
  • Leo Ginzburg (d. 1980 ), Russian Soviet poet, publicist, translator.
  • Nadezhda Troyan (d. 2011 ), Soviet intelligence agent, nurse, Hero of the Soviet Union.
• 1922 - Maria Polivanova (died in 1942 ), Soviet sniper, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumous).
• 1927 - Gilbert Beaux (d. 2001 ), French singer, composer, pianist and actor.
• 1928 - Inna Goff (d. 1991 ), Soviet poet and prose writer, author of the song "Russian Field".
• 1929 - Sos Sargsyan (d. 2013 ), theater and film actor, master of artistic expression, People's Artist of the USSR.
• 1931 - Sofya Gubaidulina , Soviet and Russian composer.
• 1932 - Pierre Gilles de Gennes (d. 2007 ), French physicist, Nobel laureate (1991).
• 1936 - Bill Wyman , bass player of the English rock band The Rolling Stones .
• 1938 - Venedikt Erofeev (d. 1990 ), Russian writer.
• 1939 - F. Murray Abraham , American film actor, Academy Award winner.
• 1942 - Dinara Asanova (d. 1985 ), Soviet film director and actress.
• 1944 - Victor Prokopenko (d. 2007 ), Soviet and Ukrainian football player and coach.
• 1945 - Andrei Martynov , film actor, People's Artist of Russia.
• 1946 - Lev Novozhenov , Russian television journalist.
• 1947
  • Kevin Kline , American actor, winner of the Oscar .
  • Boris Frumin , Soviet and Russian film director, screenwriter.
• 1966 - Roman Abramovich , Russian entrepreneur.
• 1985 - Wayne Rooney , English footballer, captain and top scorer of England .
• 1987 - Charlie White , American skater, Olympic champion.

See also: Category: October 24 dead

Until the 19th century

• 1579 - Albrecht V the Magnanimous (b. 1528 ), Duke of Bavaria (from 1550), collector and philanthropist.
• 1601 - Tycho Brahe (b. 1546 ), Danish astronomer, astrologer and alchemist.
• 1635 - Wilhelm Schikkard (b. 1592 ), German astronomer, mathematician and orientalist, creator of the first arithmometer .
• 1799 - August Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf (b. 1734 ), Austrian composer and violinist.

XIX century

• 1801 - Ivan Hannibal (b. 1735 ), Russian military leader, commander in chief of the Black Sea Fleet , founder of Kherson .
• 1842 - Bernardo O'Higgins (b. 1778 ), leader of the liberation movement in Chile .
• 1864 - James Archer (b. 1817 ), American general, participant in the Civil War on the side of the South.
• 1869 - Peter Anjou (b. 1796 ), Russian polar explorer, Fleet Admiral.
• 1872 (b. 1819 ) - Otto Heinrich Friedrich Fock , German historian and teacher.
• 1888 - (p. 1821 ), English topographer, explorer of Australia .
• 1898 - Pierre Cecile Puvi de Chavannes (b. 1824 ), French symbolist painter .

XX century

• 1912 - Ilya Sats (b. 1875 ), Russian composer, conductor and cellist.
• 1922 - (b. 1839 ), an English businessman, a chocolate maker.
• 1928 - Arthur Bowen Davis (b. 1863 ), American artist.
• 1938 - Ernst Barlach (b. 1870 ), German sculptor, artist and writer.
• 1944
  • Louis Renault (b. 1877 ), French industrialist, one of the founders of Renault .
  • Anatoly Shteiger (b. 1907 ), Russian poet, emigrant.
• 1945 - Vidkun Quisling (b. 1887 ), Prime Minister of Norway (1942-1945), leader of local collaborators .
• 1946 - Dmitry Moor (b. 1883 ), Soviet graphic artist, poster author.
• 1948 - Franz Lehar (b. 1870 ), Hungarian composer and conductor.
• 1949 - Yaroslav Galan (b. 1902 ), Ukrainian Soviet writer, playwright, publicist.
• 1957 - Christian Dior (b. 1905 ), French fashion designer.
• 1958 - George Moore (b. 1873 ), English philosopher-analyst.
• 1960 - died in a rocket explosion in Baikonur :
  • Mitrofan Nedelin (b. 1902 ), Chief Marshal of Artillery, Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Missile Forces, Hero of the Soviet Union;
  • Evgeny Ostashev (b. 1924 ), test missile and space-rocket systems, Lenin Prize laureate.
• 1960 - Zakhar Agranenko (b. 1912 ), Soviet director and playwright.
• 1963 - Karl Buhler (b. 1879 ), German psychiatrist and psychologist.
• 1964 - Juozas Mikenas (b. 1901 ), Lithuanian sculptor, people's artist of the USSR.
• 1966 - Sofya Yanovskaya (b. 1896 ), mathematician, philosopher, teacher, founder of the Soviet school of philosophy of mathematics .
• 1972
  • Sabir Abdullah (b. 1905 ), Uzbek Soviet writer, poet, playwright.
  • Jackie Robinson (b. 1919 ), American baseball player, public figure.
• 1974
  • David Oistrakh (b. 1908 ), violinist, viola player, conductor and teacher, People's Artist of the USSR.
  • Ekaterina Furtseva (b. 1910 ), Soviet state and party leader.
• 1978 - Mikhail Karateev (b. 1904 ), Russian historian and writer.
• 1981 - Edith Head (b. 1897 ), American costume designer, winner of eight Oscars .
• 1984 - Anatoly Lepin (b. 1907 ), Soviet composer.
• 1987 - Andrei Starostin (b. 1906 ), Soviet football player and coach.
• 1994
  • Raul Julia (born 1940 ), an American film actor of Puerto Rican descent.
  • Alexander Shelepin (b. 1918 ), Soviet Komsomol, party and statesman.

21st Century

• 2005 - Rosa Parks (b. 1913 ), American public activist, pioneer of the movement for the rights of black US citizens .
• 2007 - Katya Ogonyok (b. 1977 ), singer, performer of the Russian chanson.
• 2012 - Anita Björk (b. 1923 ), Swedish theater and film actress.
• 2016 - Bobby Wee (b. 1943 ), American singer.
• 2017 - Fats Domino (born 1928 ), American pianist and vocalist, one of the founders of rock and roll.
• 2018 - Anatoly Gladilin (b. 1935 ), Russian dissident writer.

• Philip. Pre-winter.
• If late leaf fall - for a difficult year .
• If it fell snow in the morning - wait for the cold winter ^[6] .
• Kichiga and heap (waterwheel blade) are arguing. Peasants carry grain to the mill ^[7] .