October 24th
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- 1929 "Black Thursday" marks the beginning of the Wall Street Crash of 1929, leading to the Great Depression.
- 2003 Walt Disney Concert Hall, designed by Frank Gehry, opens as the new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic in downtown Los Angeles.
- 2017 Albert Einstein's 'Theory of Happiness,' a note written for a bellboy in Tokyo in 1922 instead of a tip, sells for $1.56 million.
- 2018 Scientists confirm East Island in Hawaii is wiped out after contact with Hurricane Walaka.
- 2003 The last commercial supersonic Concorde flight lands in London, marking the end of an era for supersonic commercial travel.
- 1901 Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, surviving the stunt.
- 1926 Harry Houdini gives his last public performance at the Garrick Theatre in Detroit, Michigan, before his death.
