Today in History - History - October 24th

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

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

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

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

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

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

1911Orville Wright remained in the air 9 minutes and 45 seconds in a glider at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina setting a new world record that stood for 10 years.

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

1940Hitler meets Marshal Pétain

1982Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match

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

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

1903Melvin Purvis, Timmonsville South Carolina, American FBI agent

51Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)

1976Pediatrician Benjamin Spock (73) weds Mary Morgan

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

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

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

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

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