Today in History: October 24, the United Nations officially launches

In the present day is Friday Oct the th day of There are days left in the year At present in history On Oct the United Nations formally came into existence as the Charter of the United Nations ratified by nations took effect The date is now observed as United Nations Day Also on this date In Jane Seymour the third wife of England s King Henry VIII died days after giving birth to Prince Edward later King Edward VI Related Articles California union proposes one-time tax on billionaires to offset Medicaid cuts Columbus Zoo welcomes second Asian elephant calf this year How cheaters rigged high-stakes poker games with the mob and sports pros according to bureaucrats Contaminated meat was linked to in UTIs according to a survey Trump issues accident declarations for Alaska and other states but denies Illinois and Maryland In the first transcontinental telegraph message was sent by Chief Justice Stephen J Field of California from San Francisco to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington D C In a massive sell-off at the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange led to chaos as stockbrokers couldn t keep up with arrangement requests Though the field recovered several losses by the end of the day Black Thursday marked the beginning of the Wall Street Crash of In the George Washington Bridge connecting New York City with New Jersey was dedicated It was the world s longest suspension bridge at the time In Republican presidential candidate Dwight D Eisenhower vowed to go to Korea as he promised to end the ongoing conflict there Eisenhower would indeed visit Korea in December after winning the ballot but before his inauguration In government arrested John Allen Muhammad and teenager Lee Boyd Malvo near Myersville Maryland in the Washington-area sniper attacks that killed people and wounded three that month Malvo was later sentenced to life in prison Muhammad was sentenced to death and executed in In a British Airways flight from New York to London marked the final commercial flight of the supersonic Concorde jet In Hurricane Sandy roared across Jamaica and headed toward Cuba on its way to the eastern United States what became known as Superstorm Sandy was a combination of the hurricane and other storms that struck New York and surrounding areas killing people in the eastern U S In the owner and manager of the cargo ship Dali agreed to pay more than million in cleanup costs to settle a federal executive lawsuit stemming from the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge The Dali had crashed into a supporting column destroying the -mile span and killing six members of a roadwork crew In contemporary times s Birthdays Rock musician Bill Wyman is Actor F Murray Abraham is Actor Kevin Kline is Sen Mike Rounds R-S D is Sen Jeff Merkley D-Ore is Actor B D Wong is English soccer manager and former star midfielder Wayne Rooney is Singer Monica Arnold is Fashion designer Zac Posen is Singer-rapper Drake is Actor Ashton Sanders is NBA All-Star Jaylen Brown is Actor Hudson Yang is