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Great Depression / Paul McCartney / Bloody Friday / Concorde

On This Day (October 24): Your quick daily trip back in time.

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Fatih Taskiran
October 24, 2025

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Good morning — it’s Friday, October 24. Today we’re covering the end of the Thirty Years' War, the start of the Great Depression, The Manchurian Candidate, Concorde's final flight, and much more—quick and clear.

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🚀 Time Machine

-1260

Mamluk Sultan Qutuz of Egypt was assassinated by Baibars, a fellow Mamluk who seized power.

-1648

The Thirty Years' War ended with the Peace of Westphalia, which recognized Switzerland's independence.

-1857

The oldest club still playing football in the world, Sheffield FC, was founded in Yorkshire, England.

-1901

63-year-old Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to jump over Niagara Falls in a barrel successfully.

-1929

"Black Thursday," the stock market crash of 1929, began and triggered the Great Depression, which lasted until 1939, making it the most devastating crash in American history.

-1931

New York governor Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the George Washington Bridge eight months ahead of schedule over the Hudson River.

-1962

Soul singer James Brown delivers 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

-2003

The supersonic Concorde jet makes its last commercial flight from New York to London.

-2008

The world's stock exchanges experienced their worst decline in history on "Bloody Friday," with drops of around 10% in most indices.

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This is the last known photo of the Titanic afloat. Taken on April 12, 1912.

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