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🌟 Editor's Note
Good morning! It’s Saturday, October 24. Today we’re covering the end of the Thirty Years' War, the George Washington Bridge, "Black Thursday," the start of the Great Depression, the Manchurian Candidate, Concorde's final flight, "Bloody Friday," and so much more!
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🚀 Time Machine
-1260
Baibars, a fellow Mamluk leader, assassinates Qutuz, the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt (1259-60), thereby seizing power.
-1648
The Treaty of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War and recognized Switzerland's independence.
-1857
Sheffield FC, the world’s oldest football club still playing, was founded in Yorkshire, England.
-1901
63-year-old Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to successfully jump over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
-1929
"Black Thursday," the stock market crash, triggered the Great Depression, which lasted until 1939 and remains the most devastating crash in American history.
-1931
New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the George Washington Bridge over the Hudson River eight months ahead of schedule.
-1931
Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion.
-1962
Soul singer James Brown gave an electrifying performance at the Apollo Theater, later released as Live at the Apollo (1963).
-1962
"The Manchurian Candidate," directed by John Frankenheimer and starring Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey, was released.
-1979
The Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc as the world's best-selling singer-songwriter.
-2003
The supersonic Concorde jet makes its final commercial flight from New York to London.
-2008
The world's stock exchanges suffered their worst decline in history on "Bloody Friday," with most indices falling about 10%.
📸 Snapshot
"Hooverville" shantytown inside New York City's Central Park during the Great Depression, 1932
🗨️ Last Words
“Money can't buy life.”