Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on October 24 throughout history.
Bosanska Krupa is a city located in the Una-Sana Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. As of 2026, it has a population of ~23,26…
A 14 year old resident from Bosanska Krupa, Bosnia and Herzegovina initiated a terrorist attack on the local police…
The Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge (HZMB) is a 55-kilometre (34 mi) bridge–tunnel system consisting of a series of three cable-stayed bridges, an undersea tunnel, and four artifici…
The world's longest sea crossing, the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macau Bridge, opens for public traffic.
On 24 October 2016, a twin turboprop Fairchild SA227-AT Merlin IVC operated by CAE Aviation crashed near Kirkop, Malta, shortly after take-off from Malta International Airport. Th…
A French surveillance aircraft flying to Libya crashes on takeoff in Malta, killing all five people on board.
The Islamic State – Khorasan Province is a regional branch of the Salafi jihadist group Islamic State (IS) active in Central and South Asia, primarily Afghanistan, Pakistan, Tajik…
Three heavily armed terrorists from the Islamic State – Khorasan Province open fire on and eventually suicide bomb a…
On October 24, 2015, a vehicle-ramming attack took place during a parade in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States. The local campus of Oklahoma State University was holding a homeco…
A driver deliberately crashes into the Oklahoma State Homecoming parade, killing four people and injuring 34.
The China National Space Administration (CNSA) is the national space agency of China. Headquartered in Haidian, Beijing, it is responsible for China's civil space programs and int…
The China National Space Administration launches an experimental lunar mission, Chang'e 5-T1, which will loop behind…
A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a major cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driv…
"Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with drops of…
Chang'e 1 was an uncrewed Chinese lunar-orbiting spacecraft, part of the first phase of the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program. The spacecraft was named after the Chinese Moon godd…
Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch…
Hurricane Wilma was the most intense tropical cyclone in the Atlantic basin and the second-most intense tropical cyclone in the Western Hemisphere, both based on barometric pressu…
Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida, resulting in 35 direct and 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in…
The Arsenal Football Club, otherwise known as simply Arsenal, is a professional football club based in Islington, North London, England. They compete in the Premier League, the to…
Arsenal Football Club loses to Manchester United, ending a row of unbeaten matches at 49 matches, which is the record…
Concorde is a retired Anglo-French supersonic airliner jointly developed and manufactured by Sud Aviation and the British Aircraft Corporation (BAC). Studies began in 1954 and a …
Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
Deep Space 1 (DS1) was a NASA technology demonstration spacecraft which flew by an asteroid and a comet. It was part of the New Millennium Program, dedicated to testing advanced t…
Deep Space 1 is launched to explore the asteroid belt and test new spacecraft technologies.
The Toronto Blue Jays are a Canadian professional baseball team based in Toronto. The Blue Jays compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the American League (AL)…
The Toronto Blue Jays become the first Major League Baseball team based outside the United States to win the World…
Giulio Andreotti was an Italian politician and statesman who served as the 41st prime minister of Italy in seven governments. He was leader of the Christian Democracy party and it…
Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian NATO…
The Hindawi affair was a failed attempt to bomb El Al Flight 016, from London to Tel Aviv in April 1986 by Nezar Nawwaf al-Mansur al-Hindawi, a Jordanian citizen.
Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the…
Solidarity, full name Independent Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarity", is a Polish trade union founded in August 1980 at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland. Subsequently, it…
The government of Poland legalizes the Solidarity trade union.
On 24 October 1975, Icelandic women went on strike for the day to "demonstrate the indispensable work of women for Iceland's economy and society" and to "protest wage discrepancy …
In Iceland, 90% of women take part in a national strike, refusing to work in protest of gender inequality.
Northern Rhodesia was a British protectorate in Southern Africa, now the independent country of Zambia. It was formed in 1911 by amalgamating the two earlier protectorates of Baro…
Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United Kingdom and becomes Zambia.
The R-9 was a two-stage ICBM of the Soviet Union, in service from 1964 to 1976.
An oxygen leak from an R-9 Desna missile at the Baikonur Cosmodrome triggers a fire that kills seven people.
The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster, known in Russia as the Catastrophe at Baikonur Cosmodrome, was a launch-pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960 at the Baikonur …
Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome…