This Day in History October 24: Notable Historical Events on October 24

Domestic events taking place on October 24

October 24, 1953:Workers at the Algiers and Oran docks in Algeria resolutely refused to load weapons onto two French ships to be transported to Vietnam.

October 24, 1957:Thu Do - the daily newspaper of the Hanoi Party Committee launched its first issue on 30x40cm paper, printed in one color. This was also the milestone that Hanoi Moi Newspaper later took as its founding anniversary.

October 24, 1973:The Quyết Thắng Corps was established. This was the first mobile main force corps of the Vietnam People's Army.

International events taking place on October 24

October 24, 1260:Notre Dame Cathedral in Chartres, France, was inaugurated in the presence of King Louis IX of France.

October 24, 1648:The Peace of Münster, the second part of the Peace of Westphalia, ended both the Thirty Years' War and the Dutch Revolt and formally recognized the independence of the United Dutch Republic and the Swiss Confederation.

October 24, 1795:Representatives from Austria, Russia and Prussia jointly drafted a treaty formally dissolving the Commonwealth of Poland and Lietuva.

October 24, 1912:Second Balkan War: Serbia defeats the Ottoman army at the Battle of Kumanovo in present-day Macedonia.

October 24, 1945:The United Nations Charter came into force after being ratified by the United States, the Soviet Union, France, the Republic of China, the United Kingdom, and a majority of other countries.

October 24, 1960:An experimental Soviet R-16 intercontinental ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam, Kazakhstan, killing at least 90 people.

October 24, 1973:The Yom Kippur War ends.

October 24, 2007:China's Chang'e-1 satellite was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, Sichuan, China.