Today is Saturday, October 24, the 297th day of 2009. There are 68 days left in the year.
3963 B.C. _ Origin of Hevelius' Mundane Era
1648 _ Peace of Westphalia ends 30 year war and Holy Roman Empire
1836 _ The match is patented
1857 _ World's first soccer club, Sheffield F.C., founded in England
1871 _ Mob in L.A. hangs 18 Chinese
1901 _ First woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)
1929 _ ``Black Thursday," beginning of stock market crash
1940 _ 40-hour workweek goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)
1945 _ United Nations Charter becomes effective
1956 _ Soviet troops invade Hungary