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Notable anniversaries in history for today: October 24
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Karen Austin; actress (Night Court, Murder One).
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Doug Davidson; actor/TV host (The Young and the Restless, The New Price is Right).
- 60th: 1964 - Northern Rhodesia, renamed Zambia, gains independence.
- 50th: 1974 - Billy Martin named American League Manager of the Year (Texas Rangers).
- 40th: 1984 - German tennis star Steffi Graf plays her first professional tennis match.
- 40th: 1984 - Eleven members of the Colombo crime family arrested.
- 40th: 1984 - Intelsat 5 re-enters Earth's atmosphere five months after it failed.
- 40th: 1984 - Walter Woolf King, actor/TV host (Lights Cameras Action), dies at age 85.
- 30th: 1994 - The animated TV series Gargoyles first airs.
- 30th: 1994 - Death of Raul Julia of a cancer-related stroke at age 54; actor (The Addams Family movie, Raphael - Sesame Street TV show).
- 20th: 2004 - The bodies of 49 Iraqi soldiers are discovered after being ambushed by insurgents.
- 20th: 2004 - Michael Schumacher wins his 7th Formula One World Drivers Championship, his 5th consecutive win, making him the most successful driver in the history of Formula One.
- 15th: 2009 - A magnitude 7.0 earthquake hits deep under the sea off Indonesia's coast.
- 15th: 2009 - The number of US bank failures this year has topped more than 100 after US federal regulators shut down three small Florida banks. More US banks have now failed this year than in any year since 1992.
- 5th: 2019 - General election in Canada. Liberal party wins 157 seats in parliament with prime minister Justin Trudeau, Conservatives get 121 seats, Bloc Québécois gets 32, New Democrats get 24.
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