Historical Events -  October 24

 1605 : Mughal Emperor Jahangir was crowned.

1851 : William Lassell discovered the Umbrellas and Ariel moons of the planet Uranus.

1857 : Sheffield FC opened in Sheffield, England, the world’s oldest football club.

1901 : Anne Edson Taylor became the first person to jump out of a barrel at Niagara Falls.

1909 : Vinayak Savarkar celebrated Dussehra for the first time in London under the presidency of Gandhi.

1945 : United Nations was established after World War II with the signature of 50 countries.

1946 : Earth was first photographed from space.

1949 : United Nations headquarters began operations.

1963 : Due to the drought in India, rice was banned in public and at large ceremonies.

1964 : Northern Rhodesia gained independence from the United Kingdom and is renamed Zambia.

1984 : The first subway in India was started at Kolkata.

1997 : Satar player Pandit Ravi Shankar was awarded the Premium Imperial International Award of Japan for his outstanding achievements in the field of music.

2000 : Central Government’s Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Award was announced to Baba Amte.

2004 : Brazil performed the first successful rocket test in space.

2003 : Concorde’s last commercial flight.

2016 : Cyrus Mistry fired as Tata Group chairman.

 

Famous Birthdays   – October 24  

1632: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist.

1775: Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last emperor of Delhi.

1890: Sisir Kumar Mitra, an Indian physicist.

1891: Rafael Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic.

1914: Captain Lakshmi Sehgal of the Jhashi Rani Regiment in the Azad Hind Sena.

1921: R. K. Laxman, Indian Cartoonists.

1926: Kedarnath Sahani, Governor of Sikkim and Mayor of Delhi.

1935: Mark Tully, an Indian journalist, and writer.

1940: Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, Indian space scientist.

1963: Arvind Raghunathan, Indian-American industrialist.

1974: Anurag Thakur, Indian politician.

1986: Drake, Canadian rapper, songwriter, and actor.

 

Death Anniversaries   – October 24

1601: Tycho Brahe, Dutch astronomer.

1922: George Cadbury, the founder of Cadbury.

1944: Louis Renault, French industrialist, founder of the Renault Company.

1954: Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, an Indian independence activist and a socialist.

1979: Carlo Abarth, Austrian automobile designer, founder of the Abarth Company.

1991: Jean Roddenberry, American screenwriter, Star Trek creator.

1991: Ismat Chugtai, Indian Urdu story, and screenwriter.

2011: John McCarthy, father of the Lisp programming language.

2013: Manna Dey, Indian playback singers.

2014: SS Rajendran, Indian actor, director, and producer.

2017: Girija Devi, Indian classical singer.