2 Aban 1400

Events

• 1813 (213 years ago) Treaty of Gulistan: The Russo-Persian War of 1804-1813 comes to a close with the signing of the Treaty of Gulistan, under which terms Qajar Iran agrees to cede the bulk of its Caucasian territories, which comprise much of modern Dagestan, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, to the Russian Empire.
• 1851 (175 years ago) William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus.
• 1857 (169 years ago) Sheffield F.C., the world's oldest association football club still in operation, is founded in England.
• 1917 (109 years ago) World War I: Italy suffers a disastrous defeat at the Battle of Caporetto on the Austro-Italian front.
• 1944 (82 years ago) World War II: Japan's center force is temporarily repulsed in the Battle of Leyte Gulf.
• 1947 (79 years ago) Famed animator Walt Disney testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee, naming Disney employees he believes to be communists.
• 1954 (72 years ago) US President Dwight D. Eisenhower pledges United States support to South Vietnam.
• 1960 (66 years ago) Nedelin catastrophe: An R-16 ballistic missile explodes on the launch pad at the Soviet Union's Baikonur Cosmodrome space facility, killing over 100 people, including Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin.

Births

• 51 (1975 years ago) Domitian, Roman emperor (died 96)
• 1632 (394 years ago) Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, Dutch biologist and microbiologist (died 1723)
• 1804 (222 years ago) Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist and academic (died 1891)
• 1932 (94 years ago) Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2007)
• 1954 (72 years ago) Malcolm Turnbull, Australian journalist and politician, 29th Prime Minister of Australia
• 1985 (41 years ago) Wayne Rooney, English footballer
• 1986 (40 years ago) Drake, Canadian rapper and actor
• 1989 (37 years ago) PewDiePie, Swedish YouTuber

Deaths

• 996 (1030 years ago) Hugh Capet, French king
• 1537 (489 years ago) Jane Seymour, English queen and wife of Henry VIII (born c. 1508)
• 1601 (425 years ago) Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer and alchemist (born 1546)
• 1655 (371 years ago) Pierre Gassendi, French priest, astronomer, and mathematician (born 1592)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Vidkun Quisling, Norwegian soldier and politician, Minister President of Norway (born 1887)
• 1991 (35 years ago) Gene Roddenberry, American captain, screenwriter, and producer, created Star Trek (born 1921)
• 2005 (21 years ago) Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist (born 1913)
• 2011 (15 years ago) John McCarthy, American computer scientist and academic, developed the Lisp programming language (born 1927)

All 499 events, births and deaths of October 24