The First Photograph of Earth from Space
On October 24, 1946, a captured German V-2 rocket carried a movie camera 65 miles above New Mexico and snapped the first photograph of Earth from outer space.
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The 63-Year-Old Who Rode Niagara Falls in a Barrel
On her 63rd birthday, October 24, 1901, schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
The Treaties That Ended Europe's Deadliest War
On October 24, 1648, treaties signed at Münster and Osnabrück ended the Thirty Years' War and redrew Europe around the idea of sovereign states.