Today in History - History - October 24th

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

1982Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match

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

1940Hitler meets Marshal Pétain

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

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

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

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

1882Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis

1926Harry Houdini's last performance, which was at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan.

51Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)

1903Melvin Purvis, Timmonsville South Carolina, American FBI agent

1904Moss Hart, Bronx NY, playwright (You Can't Take it With You, Act 1)

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

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

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

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

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