October 24

Lead me in thy truth, and teach me: for thou art the God of my salvation; on thee do I wait all the day.

– Psalm 25:5

October is

Clergy Appreciation Month National AIDS Awareness Month National Breast Cancer Awareness Month National Car Care Month National Caramel Month National Communicate With Your Kid Month National Cookie Month National Crime Prevention Month

Celebrate Today:

International Forgiveness Day - Celebrated on the day that the UN was founded.

Saint Raphael the Archangel Feast Day (original)- Patron saint of the blind. Since 1970, his feast day was combined with the Archangels Michael and Gabriel and celebrated on September 29.

United Nations Day - Celebrates the founding of the United Nations on this day in 1945.

World Development Information Day - The UN adopted the International Development Strategy in 1970. Sponsor: United Nations.

Born on this Day

• 0051: Domitian, 11th Roman emperor (81-96)
  

• 1632: Pioneering Dutch microscope maker Anton Van Leeuwenhoek.
  

• 1788: Journalist Sarah Josepha Hale, author of "Mary Had a Little Lamb"
  

• 1830: Attorney Belva Lockwood, the first woman candidate for U.S. president, nominated by the National Equal Rights Party. Today's History Focus
  

• 1855: James Schoolcraft Sherman, 27th US vice president.
  

• 1893: Film producer-director, Merian Cooper ("King Kong")
  

• 1904: US dramatist and writer of lebrettos, Moss Hart.
  

• 1923: Poet, Denise Levertov.
  

• 1926: Y(elberton) A(braham) Tittle, football player.
  

• 1929: Modern composer, Luciano Berio.
  

• 1929: Modern composer, George Crumb.
  

• 1936: Rock musician Bill Wyman
  

• 1936: Actor-producer David Nelson
  

• 1939: Actor, F. Murray Abraham ("Amadeus").
  

• 1947: Actor, Kevin Kline.
  

• 1948: NAACP President Kweisi Mfume
  

• 1962: Actor B.D. Wong is 35.
  

• 1979: Rock musician Ben Gillies (Silverchair)
  

• 1980: Singer Monica. 

Events in History on this day
  

• 0439: Carthage, the leading Roman city in North Africa, falls to Genseric and the Vandals.
  

• 0996: Death of Hugh Capet, King of France
  

• 1147: Capture of Lisbon from the Moors by Alfonso I, King of Portugal
  

• 1273: Coronation of Rudolph I as King of Germany
  

• 1375: Death of Valdemar III, King of Denmark
  

• 1531: Bavaria, despite being a Catholic region, joins the League of Schmalkalden, a Protestant group which opposes Charles V.
  

• 1537: Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII, died. ( 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward the Sixth)
  

• 1648: The Treaty of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War in Europe.
  

• 1725: Alessandro Scarlatti died.
  

• 1818: Felix Mendelssohn played his first public concert in Berlin. Mendelssohn was nine years old.
  

• 1836: Match patented by A. Phillips.
  

• 1851: Two of Uranus' moons discovered (Ariel and Umbriel) by William Lassell.
  

• 1861: The first telegram was transmitted across the United States from California Chief Justice Stephen Field to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C.
  

• 1901: Anna Edson Taylor, a 43-year-old widow, became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel. She made the attempt for the cash award offered, which she put toward the loan on her Texas ranch.
  

• 1929: Black Thursday (more than 13 million shares traded on New York Stock Exchange). The first day of the stock market crash which began the Great Depression.
  

• 1931: The George Washington Bridge, connecting New York and New Jersey, opened to traffic.
  

• 1931: Al (Alphonse) Capone, prohibition era Chicago gangster, sent to prison for tax evasion.
  

• 1939: Benny Goodman records "Let's Dance"
  

• 1939: Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)
  

• 1940: The 40-hour work week went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
  

• 1945: Following Soviet ratification, U.S. Secretary of State James Byrnes announced the United Nations charter was in effect.
  

• 1952: Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower declared, "I shall go to Korea" as he promised to end the conflict.
  

• 1962: The US blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis officially began under a proclamation signed by President Kennedy.
  

• 1973: Yom Kippur War ends, Israel 65 miles from Cairo, 26 from Damascus
  

• 1976: Fire in a social club (Bronx, New York - 25 killed).
  

• 1980: The merchant freighter SS "Poet" departed Philadelphia bound for Port Said, Egypt, with a crew of 34 and a cargo of grain; it was never heard from again..
  

• 1987: Thirty years after it was expelled for refusing to answer allegations of corruption, the Teamsters union was welcomed back into the AFL-CIO by a vote of the labor federation's executive council in Miami Beach, Florida.
  

• 1988: The crew of the USS "Vincennes" received an emotional homecoming in San Diego, nearly four months after the cruiser downed an Iranian jetliner in the Persian Gulf, killing all 290 people aboard.
  

• 1989: Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud.
  

• 1989: Zsa Zsa Gabor was sentenced to 72 hours in jail, 120 hours of community service and nearly $13,000 in fines and court costs for slapping a traffic officer.
  

• 1990: Rep. Donald Lukens, R-Ohio, resigned over new sex charges. 
  

• 1990: The Senate failed to override President Bush's veto of a major civil rights bill by a vote of 66-34, one vote short of the two-thirds majority needed. 
  

• 1991: Gene Roddenberry, "Star Trek" creator, died.
  

• 1992: The Toronto Blue Jays became the first non-US team to win the World Series as they defeated the Atlanta Braves, 4-to-3, in game six.
  

• 1993: Two George Washington University researchers who had cloned non-viable human embryos told a news conference that science was still far from duplicating human beings -- but they urged ethicists to prepare for the future.
  

• 1994: The Clinton administration announced that the US budget deficit had fallen to $203 billion in the just-completed fiscal year.
  

• 1994: Actor Raul Julia died in Manhasset, New York, at age 54. 
  

• 1995: President Clinton and Chinese President Jiang Zemin met in New York, trying to stabilize relations shaken by disputes over human rights, trade and Taiwan. 
  

• 1995: The Cleveland Indians got their first victory in the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves 7-6 in game three. 
  

• 1996: Rioting erupted in St. Petersburg, Florida, after a white police officer fatally shot a black man during a traffic stop.
  

• 1996: The New York Yankees took the lead in the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves 1-to-0 in game five.
  

• 1997: Setting the stage for an upcoming summit, President Clinton rejected calls for a confrontational approach to China, arguing that isolating the Chinese would be "potentially dangerous."
  

• 1997: In Arlington, Virginia, former NBC sportscaster Marv Albert was spared a jail sentence after a grudging courtroom apology to the woman he'd bitten during a sexual romp.    
  

• 1998: Officials from the United States, China and North and South Korea seeking a permanent peace for the divided Korean peninsula announced in Geneva they had removed the last obstacles to full-blown talks.
  

• 1999: An Israeli court sentenced American teen-ager Samuel Sheinbein to 24 years in prison for killing an acquaintance in Maryland in 1997.
  

•  1999: Senator John Chafee, R-Rhode Island, died at Bethesda Naval Hospital at age 77. 
  

• 1999: The New York Yankees took game two of the World Series, defeating the Atlanta Braves, 7-2. . 
  

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