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.
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