More Events On This Day (10/24/13) 2003: British Airways last Concorde flight, October 24, 2003. Supersonic passenger service ended as British Airways flew its last Concorde flight; Air France had ceased similar operations in May. 1970: Salvador AllendeSalvador Allendes election as the first Marxist president of Chile was confirmed. 1940: The 40-hour workweek went into effect under the U.S. Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. 1929: Crowds gathering on Black Thursday, 1929, outside the New York Stock ExchangeA record 12,894,650 shares of stock were traded, causing the first day of real panic in the Crash of 1929, known as “Black Thursday.” 1922: Benito MussoliniBenito Mussolini summoned a “March on Rome” and subsequently became dictator of Italy. 1917: More than 600,000 Italians surrendered or retreated at the Battle of Caporetto during World War I. 1861: Pony ExpressThe first transcontinental telegram was sent via the telegraph in the United States, effectively bringing to an end the Pony Express. 1648: The Peace of Westphalia ended the Eighty Years War between Spain and the Dutch and the German phase of the Thirty Years War. 1632: Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, detail of a portrait by Jan Verkolje; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, who became the first to observe bacteria and protozoans, was born.
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