Historical Events on October 24.

1. United Nations Day & World Development Information Day & World Polio Day

2. 1605, 24th October: Mughal Emperor Jahangir was crowned.

3. 1851, 24th October: William Lassell discovered the Umbrellas and Ariel moons of the planet Uranus.

4. 1857, 24th October: Sheffield FC opened in Sheffield, England, the world’s oldest football club.

5. 1901, 24th October: Anne Edson Taylor became the first person to jump out of a barrel at Niagara Falls.

6. 1909, 24th October: Vinayak Savarkar celebrated Dussehra for the first time in London under the presidency of Gandhi.

7. 1945, 24th October: United Nations was established after World War II with the signature of 50 countries.

8. 1946, 24th October: Earth was first photographed from space.

9. 1949, 24th October: United Nations headquarters began operations.

10. 1963, 24th October: Due to the drought in India, rice was banned in public and at large ceremonies.

11. 1964, 24th October: Northern Rhodesia gained independence from the United Kingdom and is renamed Zambia.

12. 1984, 24th October: The first subway in India was started at Kolkata.

13. 1997, 24th October: Satar player Pandit Ravi Shankar was awarded the Premium Imperial International Award of Japan for his outstanding achievements in the field of music.

14. 2000, 24th October: Central Government’s Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar International Award was announced to Baba Amte.

15. 2004, 24th October: Brazil performed the first successful rocket test in space.

16. 2003, 24th October: Concorde’s last commercial flight.

17. 2016, 24th October: Cyrus Mistry fired as Tata Group chairman.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on October 24.

1. 1632: Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch microbiologist.

2. 1775: Bahadur Shah Zafar, the last emperor of Delhi.

3. 1890: Sisir Kumar Mitra, an Indian physicist.

4. 1891: Rafael Trujillo, President of the Dominican Republic.

5. 1914: Captain Lakshmi Sehgal of the Jhashi Rani Regiment in the Azad Hind Sena.

6. 1921: R. K. Laxman, Indian Cartoonists.

7. 1926: Kedarnath Sahani, Governor of Sikkim and Mayor of Delhi.

8. 1935: Mark Tully, an Indian journalist, and writer.

9. 1940: Krishnaswamy Kasturirangan, Indian space scientist.

10. 1963: Arvind Raghunathan, Indian-American industrialist.

11. 1974: Anurag Thakur, Indian politician.

12. 1986: Drake, Canadian rapper, songwriter, and actor.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on October 24.

1. 1601: Tycho Brahe, Dutch astronomer.

2. 1922: George Cadbury, the founder of Cadbury.

3. 1944: Louis Renault, French industrialist, founder of the Renault Company.

4. 1954: Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, an Indian independence activist and a socialist.

5. 1979: Carlo Abarth, Austrian automobile designer, founder of the Abarth Company.

6. 1991: Jean Roddenberry, American screenwriter, Star Trek creator.

7. 1991: Ismat Chugtai, Indian Urdu story, and screenwriter.

8. 2011: John McCarthy, father of the Lisp programming language.

9. 2013: Manna Dey, Indian playback singers.

10. 2014: SS Rajendran, Indian actor, director, and producer.

11. 2017: Girija Devi, Indian classical singer.

24-October-1505

Don Francis-Di-Almeda of Portugal arrived at Cochin as Viceroy of India.

24-October-1579

Jesuit father and first Englishman S.J.Thomas Stephens arrived at Goa in a Portuguese ship. He settled here and died in 1619.

24-October-1605

Jahangir became the fourth Emperor of Mughal Empire at Agra.

24-October-1657

Kalyan and Bhiwandi came under the rule of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.

24-October-1789

Jean C Baud, Governor General of Dutch-Indies (1834-6), was born.

24-October-1827

Viceroy Lord Rippan (1880-1884) was born.

24-October-1851

First official telegraph line was opened between Calcutta and Daimond Harbour spanning 33.8 km.

24-October-1856

Veer Narayan Singh, freedom fighter, was arrested by the British Government at Sambalpur for distributing grains from the warehouse to the people. He was sent to jail at Raipur.

24-October-1868

Balasaheb Pantpratinidhi, king of Aundh and painter, was born.

24-October-1890

Shishirkumar Mitra, Physics expert, was born in Calcutta.

24-October-1904

Lalchand Hirachand, famous industialist, was born.

24-October-1930

Raj Bagri, Indies and British merchant in metal, was born.

24-October-1933

Govindjee, famous scientist, was born in Allahabad, U.P. He found cutting plant sections easier than dissection of animals.

24-October-1934

Mahatma Gandhi quits Indian Indian National Congress in struggle over tactics.

24-October-1934

Arvindrao Laxmanrao Apte, cricketer (brother of Madhav scored 8 & 7 runs in one Test), was born in Bombay.

24-October-1938

Farooq Rehmany Mohammad, journalist, social reformer and political worker, was born at Bandipur.

24-October-1945

UNO Day.

24-October-1953

Selection of the Dassault Ouragan fighter from France at this time reflected the decision to initiate diversification of supply sources. The first four of over 100 Ouragans, or 'Toofanis' as they were to become known in the IAF, reached Palam Airport from France and this type re-equipped Nos.8, 3 and 4 Squadrons in that order.

24-October-1954

Rafi Ahmad Kidwai, Congress leader, died.

24-October-1955

Ghulam Ahmad Hasan Muhammad Parkar, cricketer (Indian batsman vs England 1982), was born in Kalusta, Maharashtra.

24-October-1966

Yugoslavia, UAR call on the US at New Delhi to stop bombing of North Vietnam.

24-October-1975

Bounded labour system was abolished by Ordinance.

24-October-1984

First Metro Train (Underground Train) in India started between Esplanade and Bhowanipore in Calcutta city.

24-October-1990

BJP-sponsored 'Bharat Bandh' in protest against L. K. Advani's arrest evokeed mixed response.

24-October-1991

Ismat Chugtai, famous Urdu author, social worker and campaigner for justice for women, died at the age of 80 years.

24-October-1992

Narmada, World Bank sets time to correct defects.

24-October-1994

Justice Ahmad Mushabber Ahmadi sworn in as Chief Justice of India.

24-October-1994

The Supreme Court refused to answer Presidential reference on Ayodhya and acquisition of disputed land was upheld.

24-October-1995

A total eclipse of the sun witnessed from India to Vietnam.

24-October-1995

Total solar eclipse seen over Rajasthan, UP, Bihar and West Bengal, while partial eclipse seen in the rest of the country.

24-October-1997

Kerala bans ragging in educational institutions by an ordinance.

24-October-2000

Hyrunnisa, suspected to be the key accused in the Kollam liquor tragedy, nabbed along with her husband and a worker in her shop in Guruvayur.

24-October-2000

Delhi High Court admitted the appeal of former Prime Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao against the lower court judgement in the JMM MPs' bribery case.

24-October-2000

Sitaram Kesri (81), former Congress President, died at the AIIMS in New Delhi.