CNN Interactive - Almanac - October 24, 1998

The launch of NASA's Deep Space 1 aboard Boeing Delta 7326 rocket is scheduled for Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Independent Counsel Ken Starr is to attend a symposium at the University of Minnesota commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision on United States vs. Nixon.
The European Union is to hold an informal summit in Klagenfurt, Austria, to discuss the world economy, EU expansion into eastern Europe and the crisis in Kosovo.

On Sunday, October 25, most Americans return to standard time by setting their clocks back one hour.
On Monday, October 26, the groundbreaking for the Oklahoma City bombing memorial is to be concluded.
On Tuesday, October 27, Germany's newly elected chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will be officially sworn in.
On Wednesday, October 28, a trial is scheduled to begin in Independence, Virginia, for Emmett Cressell, one of two white men accused of burning alive a black man who was later beheaded in July 1997.
On Thursday, October 29, the launch of space shuttle Discovery from Cape Canaveral, Florida, is to take place on a nine-day Spacehab mission. The crew includes U.S. Sen. John Glenn, 77, as payload specialist.

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In 1945, the United Nations officially came into existence as its charter took effect.
In 1537, Jane Seymour, the third wife of England's King Henry the Eighth, died 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward the Sixth.
In 1648, the Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years War and effectively destroyed the Holy Roman Empire.
In 1861, the first transcontinental telegraph message was sent as Justice Stephen J. Field of California transmitted a telegram to U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
In 1901, Anna Edson Taylor, a 43-year-old widow, became the first person to survive going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
In 1939, nylon stockings were sold publicly for the first time, in Wilmington, Delaware.
In 1940, the 40-hour work week went into effect under the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
In 1962, the U.S. blockade of Cuba during the missile crisis officially began under a proclamation signed by President John F. Kennedy