Today in History - History - October 24th

1979Guinness Book of Records presents Paul McCartney with a rhodium disc

1911Captain Robert Falcon Scott's expedition leaves Cape Evans for South Pole

1933Langston Hughes' "Mulatto" premieres in NYC

1939Joe DiMaggio wins AL MVP, Jimmie Foxx is runner-up

1980John Lennon releases "(Just Like) Starting Over" in UK

1981Pablo Picasso's 1937 painting Guernica goes on display in Madrid Spain to celebrate the centenary of the artist's birth

1931Gangster Al Capone is sentenced to 11 years for tax evasion

1882Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis

1988NY Islander's & NHL high scorer, Mike Bossy retires

1982Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match

1903Melvin Purvis, Timmonsville South Carolina, American FBI agent

51Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)

1932Robert Mundell, Kingston, Ontario, economist and Nobel laureate (1999)

1947Kevin Kline, St Louis, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill)

1969"Love Story" actress Ali MacGraw (30) weds film producer Robert Evans (39)

1976Pediatrician Benjamin Spock (73) weds Mary Morgan

1852Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 70

2005Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist, dies of natural causes at 92

1972Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player (Bkln Dodgers), dies at 53

1601Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, dies in Prague at 54