28 indexed achievements across recorded history.
Jane Seymour died at Hampton Court Palace, likely from postnatal complications, twelve days after giving birth to Prince Edward.
View detailsBirth of Sarah Josepha Buell (later Hale) in Newport, New Hampshire, to Gordon and Martha Buell.
View detailsBorn Belva Ann Bennett in Royalton, Niagara County, New York, to a farming family.
View detailsThe Worcester convention continued into its second day, with Stanton among its principal speakers and organizers.
View detailsAlexandra David-Neel was born on October 24, 1868.
View detailsMarjorie Stewart Joyner was born in Monterey, Virginia, later becoming an influential beautician, inventor, educator, and activist.
View detailsGoldman is arrested in New Haven under an old warrant related to Frick's assassination attempt.
View detailsAnnie Edson Taylor survives Niagara Falls descent in a barrel, a pioneering first.
View detailsMarie-Louise von Motesiczky was born on 24 October 1906 in Vienna into a wealthy, cultured Austrian family.
View detailsBirth of Tsai-Fan Yu in Shanghai, China, on 24 October 1911.
View detailsPostum Cereal Company completes its going-public process under Post's leadership.
View detailsOn 24 October 1929, Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own hailed Behn as the first Englishwoman to earn her living by writing, cementing her feminist legacy.
View detailsOn October 24, 1949, the U.S. Senate confirmed Eugenie Anderson as ambassador to Denmark, making her the first woman formally approved for ambassadorial rank.
View detailsRita Levi-Montalcini received the Max Weinstein Award in 1963.
View detailsEdith Head died of myelofibrosis in Los Angeles, California, four days before what would have been her 84th birthday.
View detailsMother Teresa receives the Order of Merit from Queen Elizabeth II.
View detailsCarol Ann DiMaiti Stuart died on October 24, 1989, at Brigham and Women's Hospital from the gunshot wound inflicted by her husband.
View detailsReceived France's national sculpture prize, 1990.
View detailsKrush secured a bronze at the 1998 World Junior Championship for Girls U20.
View detailsU.S. Patent 7,125,621 B2 granted for a 'Proton Conducting Membrane Using a Solid Acid', naming Haile as an inventor.
View detailsLiliane Bettencourt Prize for the Life Sciences presented in Paris to May-Britt Moser for her contributions to neuroscience and life sciences.
View detailsMargaret Osborne duPont died on October 24, 2012, in El Paso, Texas, at the age of 94, closing out a legendary tennis career and life.
View detailsLevi and Catharine Coffin were jointly inducted into the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum in Peterboro, New York, on October 24, 2015.
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