Once Upon A Time – October 24 – 1857 – Recognised By FIFA As Oldest Existing Club Still Playing Football In The World, Sheffield FC Is Founded In Yorkshire, England

1260 Qutuz, Mamluk Sultans of Egypt (1259-60), is assassinated by Baibars, a fellow Mamluk leader, who seizes power for himself

1648 Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Years’ War in the Holy Roman Empire; Switzerland’s independence recognized

1929 “Black Thursday”, start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%

1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba

2008 “Bloody Friday” saw many of the world’s stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

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OCT 24 IN FILM & TV

1962 “The Manchurian Candidate”, directed by John Frankenheimer, starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey, is released

OCT 24 IN MUSIC

1979 Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc as all-time best selling singer-songwriter

OCT 24 IN SPORT

1857 Recognised by FIFA as oldest existing club still playing football in the world, Sheffield FC is founded in Yorkshire, England; now based in Dronfield, Derbyshire

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1931 Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion

1593 Alleged teleportation of Spanish soldier Gil Perez from the Philippines to Mexico

FAMOUS WEDDINGS

1867 US Admiral George Dewey (29) weds daughter of New Hampshire’s war governor Susan Goodwin

1957 Singer Bing Cosby marries actress Kathryn Grant

1964 Aspiring American songwriter Harry Nilsson (23) weds Sandi McTaggart (21) in Los Angeles, California; divorce in 1967