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24 Oct 2007
China's first lunar probe Chang'e 1 launched.
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24 Oct 2003
The final commercial Concorde flight took place between New York and London Heathrow.
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24 Oct 1995
People in South Asia witnessed a total eclipse that lasted 2 minutes and 9 seconds.
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24 Oct 1979
The Guinness World Records awarded Paul McCartney the best-selling singer-songwriter of all time.
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24 Oct 1973
When 65 cars collided during thick fog on the New Jersey Turnpike, nine people were killed.
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24 Oct 1964
Zambia gained its independence from Britain.
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24 Oct 1946
A V-2 rocket captured the first photograph of Earth from outer space.
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24 Oct 1945
The United Nations is born.
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24 Oct 1929
Dubbed 'Black Thursday,' the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
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24 Oct 1926
The world famous escape artist performed for the last time at the Garrick Theater in Detroit, Michigan.
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24 Oct 1901
On her 63rd birthday, American school teacher Annie Taylor was the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
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24 Oct 1857
The world's first soccer club, Sheffield F.C., was founded in England.
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24 Oct 1851
British astronomer William Lassell discovered two of Uranus' moons, Ariel and Umbriel.
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24 Oct 1818
The pianist Felix Mendelssohn performed for the first time in Berlin at just nine years old.
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24 Oct 1593
Folklore states that injured soldier Gil Pérez was mysteriously transported from the Philippines to Mexico City.
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24 Oct 1590
John White returned to England after failing to find the lost Roanoke colonists.
