This Day in History for October 24th –

This Day In History Archive.

1889 – Softball rules adopted by the Mid Winter Indoor Baseball League.

1901 – Anna Taylor becomes the first woman to cross Niagara Falls in a barrel.

1908 – Billy Murray hits the charts with “Take Me Out To the Ball Game.”

1911 – Orville Wright stays aloft in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina, for 9 minutes and 45 seconds, setting a world record that stands for 10 years.

1926 – Harry Houdini’s final performance took place in Detroit, Michigan.

1929 – “Black Thursday,” the beginning of the stock market crash of 1929, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 12.8%.

1939 – Benny Goodman records “Let’s Dance.”

1947 – A series of wildfires burns over $30 million worth of wood in the New England states.

1954 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower assures South Vietnam of United States support.

1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet ships approach the United States’ blockade of Cuba, but stall shortly afterwards.

1963 – Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax is the unanimous winner of the Cy Young Award.

1970 – Nancy Walker takes on the role of Ida Morgenstein on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.”

1982 – Steffi Graf plays her first professional tennis match, losing to Tracy Austin 6-4, 6-0 in Germany.

1987 – NBC engineers accept a pact ending the 118-day strike.

1989 – Televangelist Jim Bakker is sentenced to 45 years in prison for fraud, but the sentence is later reduced to eight years on appeal.

2004 – 10 people, including NASCAR driver Ricky Hendrick and 4 family members, die in a plane crash near Martinsville Speedway in Virginia. The aircraft belonged to Hendrick Motorsports.

2012 – Hurricane Sandy hits Jamaica, killing one person and causing over $50 million in damage.

2018 – Joel Embid becomes the first NBA player to reach 30 points and 19 rebounds in the same game since Charles Barkley in 1991.

2023 – Aid group Save the Children says 2,000 children have been killed in Gaza by Israeli bombings, amid calls for a ceasefire at the United Nations.

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