Sunday 24 October 2010

On This Day - 24th October


1904 - Moss Hart born
1924 - The Zinoviev Letter is published losing the Labour party the election that followed.
1929 - The Wall Street Stock Market crash
1930 - J.P. "Big Bopper" Richardson born
1936 - David Nelson born
1939 - F. Murray Abraham born
1945 - Allies of World War II ratify the UN Charter at a ceremony in Washington DC.
1947 - Kevin Kline born
1979 - Ben Gillies born
1980 - Monica born
1981 - More than 250,000 people march through London to protest over the siting of nuclear missiles in the UK.
1983 - Civil servant Dennis Nilsen goes on trial accused of six murders and two attempted murders.
1986 - The UK government breaks off diplomatic relations with Syria following revelations of official complicity in Nezar Hindawi's plot to blow up an El Al airliner.
2001 - 11 people die after two lorries crash head-on and catch fire inside the Gotthard road tunnel in Switzerland.
2003 - The legendary supersonic aircraft, Concorde, makes its last commercial passenger flight amid emotional scenes at Heathrow airport

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