October
24
Independence
Day
Zambia : October 24 1964
October
24 : UN Day
UN Day is devoted to highlighting the aims and achievements
of the United Nations. This year's UN Day focuses on the eight
UN Millennium Development Goals (above) and follows on the High-level
Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly on 20-22 September 2010,
which adopted a global action plan to achieve the eight goals
by their 2015 target date.
About
United Nations Day
It is the birthday of the United Nations. On 24 October 1945,
the United Nations was formally established after a majority
of its founding members ratified a treaty setting up the world
body. In 1971, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a
resolution recommending that the day be observed as a public
holiday by Member States. Traditionally, it has been marked
throughout the world by meetings, discussions and exhibits on
the goals and achievements of the Organization
October 24 : World Development
Information Day
The General
Assembly in 1972 instituted World Development Information Day
to draw the attention of world public opinion to development
problems and the need to strengthen international cooperation
to solve them (resolution 3038 (XXVII)). The Assembly decided
that the date for the Day should coincide in principle with
United Nations Day, 24 October, which was also the date of the
adoption, in 1970, of the International Development Strategy
for the Second United Nations Development Decade.
The Assembly
felt that improving the dissemination of information and the
mobilization of public opinion, particularly among young people,
would lead to greater awareness of the problems of development,
thus, promoting efforts in the sphere of international cooperation
for development.
October
24 : International day action against climate change
Events
69 – Second
Battle of Bedriacum, forces under Antonius Primus, the commander
of the Danube armies, loyal to Vespasian, defeat the forces
of Emperor Vitellius.
1147 – After a siege of 4 months crusader knights led by Afonso
Henriques reconquered Lisbon.
1260 – The spectacular Cathedral of Chartres is dedicated in
the presence of King Louis IX of France; the cathedral is now
a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
1260 – Saif ad-Din Qutuz, Mamluk sultan of Egypt, is assassinated
by Baibars, who seizes power for himself.
1360 – The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking
the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
1590 – John White, The governor of the second Roanoke Colony,
returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost"
colonists.
1648 – The Peace of Westphalia is signed, marking the end of
the Thirty Years' War.
1795 – Partitions of Poland: The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
is completely divided among Austria, Prussia, and Russia
1812 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Maloyaroslavets takes
place near Moscow.
1851 – William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel
(moon) orbiting Uranus.
1857 – Sheffield F.C., the world's first football club, is founded
in Sheffield, England.
1861 – The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the
United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old
Pony Express.
1901 – Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over
Niagara Falls in a barrel.
1911 – Orville Wright remains in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds
in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina.
1912 – First Balkan War: The Battle of Kumanovo concludes with
the Serbian victory.
1917 – Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat
by the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian
front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called
Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo).
1926 – Harry Houdini's last performance, which is at the Garrick
Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.
1929 – "Black Thursday" stock market crash on the
New York Stock Exchange.
1930 – A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousts Washington Luís
Pereira de Sousa, the last President of the First Republic.
Getúlio Dornelles Vargas is then installed as "provisional
president."
1931 – The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
1944 – World War II: The Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku,
and the battleship Musashi are sunk in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
1945 – Founding of the United Nations
1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first
photograph of earth from outer space.
1947 – Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities
Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
1949 – The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is
laid.
1954 – Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to
South Vietnam
1957 – The USAF starts the X-20 Dyna-Soar program.
1960 – Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes
on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome
space facility, killing over 100. Among the dead is Field Marshal
Mitrofan Nedelin, whose death is reported to have occurred in
a plane crash
1964 – Northern Rhodesia gains independence from the United
Kingdom and becomes the Republic of Zambia (Southern Rhodesia
remained a colony until the next year, with the Unilateral Declaration
of Independence)
1973 – Yom Kippur War ends
1977 – Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October
for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed
on November 11 beginning the following year.)
1980 – The government of Poland legalizes Solidarity trade union
1986 – Nezar Hindawi is sentenced to 45 years in prison, the
longest sentence handed down by a British court, for the attempted
bombing on an El Al flight at Heathrow. After the verdict, the
United Kingdom breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, claiming
that Hindawi is helped by Syrian officials.
1990 – Italian prime minister Giulio Andreotti reveals to the
Italian parliament the existence of Gladio, the Italian "stay-behind"
clandestine paramilitary NATO army, which was implicated in
false flag terrorist attacks implicating communists and anarchists
as part of the strategy of tension from the late 1960s to early
1980s.
1998 – Launch of Deep Space 1 comet/asteroid mission
2002 – Police arrest spree killers John Allen Muhammad and Lee
Boyd Malvo, ending the Beltway sniper attacks in the area around
Washington, DC.
2003 – Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
2005 – Hurricane Wilma makes landfall in Florida resulting in
35 direct 26 indirect fatalities and causing $20.6B USD in damage.
2007 – Chang'e 1, the first satellite in the Chinese Lunar Exploration
Program, is launched from Xichang Satellite Launch Center.
2008 – "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock
exchanges experience the worst declines in their history, with
drops of around 10% in most indices.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Anthony Mary Claret
October 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Zambia from
United Kingdom in 1964.
Suez Day (Egypt)
United Nations Day, the anniversary of the 1945 Charter of the
United Nations (International)
World Development Information Day (International)
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