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| October 24 is the 298th day of the year. There are 68 days remaining until the end of the year. |
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| 1818 Felix Mendelssohn, 9, performs his 1st public concert in Berlin |
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| 1861 The First Transcontinental Telegraph line across the United States is completed, spelling the end for the 18-month-old Pony Express. Pity. |
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| 1901 Birthday girl, Mrs. Annie Edson Taylor, aged 63, is 1st person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel and live to tell the tale. Mr. Taylor is later taken in for questioning over the incident. |
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| 1908 Billy Murray hits the charts with "Take Me Out to the Ball Game"...We don't care if we ever come back! |
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| 1911 Orville Wright stays aloft 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a Wright Glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. Viagra could've kept him up longer... |
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| 1917 The day of the October Revolution. Workers of the world, etc., etc. |
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| 1929 Stock market begins precipitous slide on "Black Thursday" when Dow Jones goes down 12.8%. |
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| 1939 Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time in Wilmington, Delaware |
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| 1948 Bernard M. Baruch introduces term "Cold War" |
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| 2002 Police arrest man-boy lovers John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo, who kept shooting and shooting all over the Washington, DC area |
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| 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. |
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| 1947 Kevin Kline, STLMO actor |
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| 1952 Maarten Spanjer, maybe gay Dutch actor |
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| 1960 [Bradley Darryl] B. D. Wong, gay US actor/Law & Order: Special Victims Unit |
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| 1964 Josh Carmichael, maybe gay US actor/director/writer |
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| 1968 Tommy O'Haver, gay US director/writer/Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss |
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| 1970 Renato Rossini, Peruvian actor |
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| 1970 Raul Esparza, bisexual US stage actor |
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| 1970 Chad Knight, gay US pornographic actor |
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| 1977 Pastor Oviedo, gay Venezuelan actor |
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| 1978 Christopher Haddad, Belgian actor |
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| 1980 Jan Hartmann, German actor |
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| 1980 Zac Posen, gay US fashion designer |
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| 1981 Alfred Vargas, Filipino actor/model/politician |
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| 1981 Tila Tequila [Tila Nguyen], bisexual US model/addict/brain surgeon |
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| 1983 Daniel Kennedy, maybe gay US actor |
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| 1984 Ben Giroux, maybe gay short US actor |
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| 1985 Wayne Rooney, English soccer player |
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| 1987 Lincoln Lewis, Australian actor |
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| 1601 Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, sees stars. |
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| 1972 Jackie Robinson, 1st US black major league baseball player (Brooklyn Dodgers), pops out |
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| 1991 Gene Roddenberry, US creator (Star Trek), boldly goes |
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| 2005 Rosa Parks, US civil rights activist, rides in the front of a chariot |
