| 439 |
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Carthage, the leading Roman city in North Africa, falls to Genseric and the Vandals. |
| 1531 |
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Bavaria, despite being a Catholic region, joins the League of Schmalkalden, a Protestant group which opposes Charles V. |
| 1648 |
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The signing of the Treaty of Westphalia ends the German Thirty Years’ War. |
| 1755 |
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A British expedition against the French held Fort Niagara in Canada ends in failure. |
| 1836 |
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The match is patented. |
| 1861 |
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Western Union completes the first transcontinental telegraph line, putting the Pony Express out of business. |
| 1863 |
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General Ulysses S. Grant arrives in Chattanooga, Tennessee to find the Union Army there starving. |
| 1897 |
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The first comic strip appears in the Sunday color supplement of the New York Journal called the ‘Yellow Kid.’ |
| 1901 |
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Anna Edson Taylor, 43, is the first woman to go safely over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She made the attempt for the cash award offered, which she put toward the loan on her Texas ranch. |
| 1916 |
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Henry Ford awards equal pay to women. |
| 1917 |
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The Austro-German army routs the Italian army at Caporetto, Italy. |
| 1929 |
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Black Thursday–the first day of the stock market crash which began the Great Depression. |
| 1930 |
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John Wayne debuts in his first starring role in The Big Trail . |
| 1931 |
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Al (Alphonse) Capone, the prohibition-era Chicago gangster, is sent to prison for tax evasion. |
| 1934 |
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, called Mahatma or "Great Soul," resigns from Congress in India. |
| 1938 |
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The Fair Labor Standards Act becomes law, establishing the 40-hour work week. |
| 1944 |
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The aircraft carrier USS Princeton is sunk by a single Japanese plane during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. |
| 1945 |
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The United Nations comes into existence with the ratification of its charter by the first 29 nations. |
| 1945 |
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Vidkun Quisling, Norway’s wartime minister president, is executed by firing squad for collaboration with the Nazis. |
| 1952 |
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Presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that if elected, he will go to Korea. |
| 1970 |
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Leftist Salvador Allende elected president of Chile. |
| 2003 |
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The supersonic Concorde jet made its last commercial passenger flight from New York City’s John F. Kennedy International Airport to London’s Heathrow Airport, traveling at twice the speed of sound. |
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Born on October 24 |
| 1632 |
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Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch naturalist. |
| 1788 |
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Sarah Josepha Hale, magazine editor and poet whose book Poems for Our Children included "Mary Had a Little Lamb" (the first words to be recorded in sound) |
| 1904 |
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Moss Hart, American playwright who, with George S. Kaufman, wrote plays such as You Can’t Take it with You and The Man who came to Dinner. |
| 1911 |
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Sonny Terry, blues performer. |
| 1923 |
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Denise Levertov, English poet. |
| 1929 |
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George Henry Crumb, American composer. |
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