October 24: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

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1. 1360 - The Treaty of Brétigny is ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
2. 1590 - John White, The governor of the second Roanoke Colony, returns to England after an unsuccessful search for the "lost" colonists.
3. 1851 - William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel (moon) orbiting Uranus.
4. 1857 - Sheffield F.C., the world's first football club, is founded in Sheffield, England.
5. 1901 - Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
6. 1931 - The George Washington Bridge opens to public traffic.
7. 1946 - A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.
8. 1949 - The cornerstone of the United Nations Headquarters is laid.
9. 1977 - Veterans Day is observed on the fourth Monday in October for the seventh and last time. (The holiday is once again observed on November 11 beginning the following year.)
10. 2003 - Concorde makes its last commercial flight.
11. Famous Birthdays: Anthony Babington (Leader of the Babington Plot), Anton van Leeuwenhoek (Dutch microbiologist), Annie Edson Taylor (American Adventuress), William H. Dobelle American biomedical engineer), Frank Piasecki (American aeronautical engineer)

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