Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/October 24
October 24: Independence Day in Zambia (1964)
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- 1360 - The Treaty of Brétigny was ratified at Calais, marking the end of the first phase of the Hundred Years' War.
- 1648 - The Peace of Westphalia was signed, ending the Thirty Years' War and "officially" recognizing the United Provinces and Swiss Confederation.
- 1929 - The Great Depression: The New York Stock Exchange crashed on "Black Thursday", setting off a chain of bankruptcies and triggering a worldwide economic depression.
- 1930 - A bloodless coup d'état in Brazil ousted President Washington Luís Pereira de Sousa. Getúlio Dornelles Vargas was then installed as the "provisional president" by the military.
- 1945 - The United Nations was founded in San Francisco, California.
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