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Events on October 24

• 1273 With the coronation and anointing of the Habsburg Rudolf I as King of the Romans, the interregnum ends.
• 1648 The Peace of Westphalia, negotiated at the Münster and Osnabrück city halls to end the Thirty Years' War, is signed
• 1857 With the English FC Sheffield, the world's first football club is founded.
• 1929 On “Black Thursday”, the long-running bull market of the New York Stock Exchange ends. The Great Depression begins.
• 1931 Al Capone is sentenced to a 50,000 dollar fine and eleven years in prison for tax evasion.
• 1945 The entry into force of its Charter marks the founding of the United Nations.
• 1956 The strike over continued pay in the event of illness begins in Schleswig-Holstein and, with a duration of 114 days, will become the longest strike in Germany since 1905.
• 1963 Lengede mine disaster: In a tunnel of the Lengede-Broistedt iron ore mine in Lengede, Lower Saxony, near Peine, 129 miners are buried at a depth of 60 m.
• 1991 The American science fiction film Terminator 2: Judgment Day opens in German cinemas. It is still regarded as the most commercially successful sequel in this film series.
• 2001 A collision between two trucks in the Gotthard Road Tunnel triggers a fire that kills eleven people. The tunnel will then remain closed for two months for renovation work.
• 2003 The Concorde departs on its final commercial flight from New York to London.
• 2012 The Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe Murdered under National Socialism, designed by Dani Karavan, is unveiled in Berlin.

Born on October 24

• 1868 Fritz Hoffmann-La Roche, Founder of Hoffmann-La Roche
• 1882 Emmerich Kálmán, Hungarian composer
• 1891 Rafael Leónidas Trujillo Molina, Dictator of the Dominican Republic
• 1893 Kurt Huber, German musicologist, folk song researcher and psychologist, victim of National Socialism
• 1930 Johan Galtung, Norwegian peace and conflict researcher
• 1953 Christoph Daum, German football coach
• 1960 Wolfgang Güllich, German sport climber
• 1960 Christoph Schlingensief, German film and theater director, talk show host and politician
• 1975 Max Giermann, German actor and comedian
• 1990 İlkay Gündoğan, German footballer

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „24. Oktober“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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