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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of October 24:

 1632 Antony van Leeuwenhoek Hol, naturalist (Philosophical Transactions)
1788 Sarah Josepha Hale author (Mary Had a Little Lamb)
1882 Dame Sybil Thorndike England, actress (Saint Joan)
1890 Chicago Mainbocher uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves)
19-- Doug Davidson actor (Paul-The Young & the Restless)
19-- Glenn Tipton rocker (Judas Priest-Breakin' the Law)
19-- James Whitmore Jr NYC, actor (Hunter, Baa Baa Black Sheep)
19-- Karen Austin Welch WV, actress (Carrie-Quest, Lana-Night Court)
19-- Maggie Pierce Detroit Mich, actress (Barbara-My Mother the Car)
19-- Ron Tomme Chicago Ill, actor (Charles-Dallas, Love of Life)
19-- Teri Keane actress (Loving)
1904 Moss Hart Bronx NY, playwright (You can't Take it With You, Act 1)
1911 Clarence M Kelley FBI head
1923 Denise Levertov American poet/essayist (Joy Beneath the Skin)
1925 Luciano Berio Oneglia Italy, composer (Chemins)
1926 YA Tittle AAFC, NFL QB (Baltimore, SF, NY Giants, MVP 1963)
1929 George Crumb Charleston WV, composer (Pulitzer 1968-Echoes of Time)
1929 James Brosnan baseball player/writer (The Long Season)
1936 Bill Wyman England, rocker (Rolling Stones-Under My Thumb)
1936 David Nelson NYC, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet)
1938 Fred E Finn SF Calif, pianist (Mickie Finn's)
1940 F Murray Abraham actor (Amadeus, Mad Man)
1947 Kevin Kline St Louis, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill)
1951 Todd Crespi Frankfurt Germany, actor (The Magician)
1953 James di Donato twin who swam the butterfly 40.6 miles
1953 Jonathan di Donato twin who swam the butterfly 40.6 miles
1972 Louis Michael Anthony Sassin Boston, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun)

Deaths which occurred on October 24:

1537 Jane Seymour 3rd wife of Henry VIII, dies
1601 Tycho Brahe astronomer, dies in Prague at 54
1655 Pierre Gassendi French philosopher, dies at 63
1957 Christian Dior French designer, dies at 52 in Italy
1961 Dr Milan Stoyadinovich Fascist Yugoslavia PM (1935-9), dies at 73
1963 Beverly Wills actress (Beverly-I Married Joan), dies at 29
1971 Chuck Hughes Detroit Lion collapses during game & later, dies
1972 Jackie Robinson dies at 53
1973 Allan "Rocky" Lane actor (voice of Mr Ed, Red Ryder), dies at 72
1975 Ismail Erez Turkish ambassador killed by car bomb in Paris
1981 Deborah Baltzell actress (Karen-I'm a Big Girl Now), dies at 25
1982 James Philbrook actor (Islanders, Investigators), dies at 58
1983 Jessica Savitch news anchor (NBC-TV), dies at 35
1984 Edith Massey actress, dies at 66
1984 Walter Woolf King actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at 85
1987 Constantin Alajalov Russian artist, dies at 86
1991 Gene Roddenberry Star Trek creator, dies of a heart attack at 70

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1964    WOODS            LAWRENCE          CLARKSVILLE           TN     AC SHOOT/DOWN 7 REMAINS RECOVERED N/SUB  
 1967    CLARK            RICHARD C.        TACOMA                WA     GOOD CHUTE  
 1967    FRISHMANN        ROBERT F.         SAN FRANCISCO         CA     08/05/69 RELEASED  
 1967    GILLESPIE        CHARLES R.        MERIDIAN              MS     03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV         DECEASED
 1967    LEWIS            EARL G.           CAPE GIRARDEAU        MO     03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV      ALIVE IN 98
 1968    TYLER            GEORGE E.         ROYAL OAK             MI       
 1970    HEIDEMAN         THOMAS E.         CHICAGO               IL       
 1972    BIXEL            MICHAEL SARGENT   FORT WALTON BEACH     FL

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On this day...

3963 -BC- Origin of Hevelius' Mundane Era
1648 Peace of Westphalia ends 30 year war and Holy Roman Empire
1795 3rd partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia
1836 The match is patented
1851 William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus
1856 Constitution of South Australia adopted
1857 World's 1st soccer club, Sheffield F.C., founded in England
1861 1st transcontinental telegram sent ending the Pony Express
1871 Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese
1889 Softball rules adopted by Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League
1901 1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
1903 1st trotter to run a mile under 2 minutes (Lou Dillon 1:58.1)
1903 George Sutton becomes billiard champ
1911 Robert Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole
1929 "Black Thursday," beginning of stock market crash
1931 George Washington Bridge connecting NY to NJ opens
1935 Italy invades Ethiopia
1939 Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"
1939 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
1940 40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
1940 Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
1943 Anti-nazi Clandestine Radio Soldatsender Calais begins transmitting
1945 United Nations Charter becomes effective
1947 Series of forest fires burn $30 million of timber (New England States)
1951 United Nations publishes its 1st postage stamps
1952 Arab Liberation Movement becomes the only party of Syria
1956 Soviet troops invade Hungary
1960 Disaster on USSR launch pad, kills missile expert Nedelin & team (unconfirmed); USSR claims he was killed in plane crash
1964 Zambia (N Rhodesia) gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 Mick Jagger & Marianne Faithful busted for pot, released on œ50 bail
1970 Nancy Walker creates Ida Morgenstein role on Mary Tyler Moore Show
1970 Salvador Allende Gossens elected president of Chile
1971 Harry Drake sets longest arrow flight by a footbow (1 mile 268 yds)
1971 Texas Stadium opens-Cowboys beat Patriots 44-21
1973 Heavy fog causes 65 car collision killing 9 on NJ Turnpike
1973 John Lennon sues US govt to admit the FBI is tapping his phone
1973 Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
1974 Billy Martin named AL Manager of the Year (Texas Rangers)
1976 1st Jewish film & TV festival
1978 NHL Toronto Maple Leafs set own team record of 28 pts vs NY Islanders
1979 Billy Martin punches a marshmallow salesman, puts job in jeopardy
1979 Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc
1980 John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK
1980 Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity
1984 11 members of the Colombo crime family arrested
1984 Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere 5 months after it failed
1984 Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match
1987 Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by senate
1987 NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike
1988 NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires
1988 Traveling Wilburys Volume One is released
1988 Typhoon Ruby sinks Philippine ferry; hundreds drown
1989 After a week's delay due to earthquake, World Series game 3 is played (World Series #86)
1989 Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud




Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

World, UN : United Nations Day/D¡a de las Naciones Unidas
Zambia : Independence Day (1964)
US : Mother-in-Law's Day - - - - - ( Sunday )
US some states : Veterans Day - - - - - ( Monday )
US : Francis E Willard Day-temperance day - - - - - ( Friday )

Religious Observances

Old Catholic : Feast of St Raphael the Archangel, patron of travelers
RC : Memorial of Antony Mary Claret, bishop (opt)

Religious History

1260 Under Pope Alexander IV, Chartres Cathedral in France was consecrated. Completed in less than 30 years, the structure represents high Gothic architecture at its purest.
1538 French reformer John Calvin wrote in a letter: 'Among Christians there ought to be so great a dislike of schism, as that they may always avoid it so far as lies in their power.'
1790 English founder of Methodism John Wesley, 87, made the last entry in his 55-year-long journal, written after preaching a sermon: 'I hope many even then resolved to choose the better part.' (Wesley died the following March.)
1911 Missionary widow Aimee Elizabeth Kennedy Semple, 21, married Harold Stewart McPherson, also 21. Afterward, Aimee Semple McPherson went on to establish the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel in 1918. (She and Harold would divorce in 1921).
1956 In Syracuse, New York, Margaret Ellen Towner became the first woman ordained in the Presbyterian Church.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

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