Today in History - History - October 24th

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

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

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

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.

1982Steffi Graf plays her 1st pro tennis match

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

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

1882Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis

1933Langston Hughes' "Mulatto" premieres in NYC

51Domitian, Roman Emperor (d. 96)

1903Melvin Purvis, Timmonsville South Carolina, American FBI agent

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

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

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

1976Pediatrician Benjamin Spock (73) weds Mary Morgan

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

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

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

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