TUESDAY INHISTORY

Today is Tuesday, Oct. 24, the 297th day of 2017. There are 68 days left in the year.

Highlight in History:

On Oct. 24, 1952, Republican presidential candidate Dwight D. Eisenhower declared in Detroit, “I shall go to Korea” as he promised to end the conflict. (He made the visit over a month later.)

On this date:

In 1537, Jane Seymour, the third wife of England’s King Henry VIII, died 12 days after giving birth to Prince Edward, later King Edward VI.

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 by Chief Justice Stephen J. Field of California from San Francisco to President Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., over a line built by the Western Union Telegraph Co.

In 1945, the United Nations officially came into existence as its charter took effect.

In 1962, a naval quarantine of Cuba ordered by President John F. Kennedy went into effect during the missile crisis.

In 1980, the merchant freighter SS Poet departed Philadelphia, bound for Port Said, Egypt, with a crew of 34 and a cargo of grain; it disappeared en route and has not been heard from since.

In 1992, the Toronto Blue Jays became the first baseball teambased outside the U.S. to win the World Series.

In 2002, authorities apprehended Army veteran John Allen Muhammad and teenager Lee Boyd Malvo near Myersville, Maryland, in the Washington-area sniper attacks. (Malvo was later sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole; Muhammad was sentenced to death and executed in 2009.)

Tenyearsago: Rapidly rising Internet star Facebook Inc. sold a 1.6 percent stake to Microsoft Corp. for $240 million.

Five years ago: Hurricane Sandy roared across Jamaica and headed toward Cuba, before taking aim at the eastern United States.

One year ago: Campaigning in battleground Florida, a defiant Donald Trump blamed his campaign struggles on “phony polls” fromthe “disgusting” media.

Today’s Birthdays: Movie director-screenwriter David S. Ward is 72. Actor Kevin Kline is 70. Singer-actress Monica Arnold is 37 R&B singer-rapper-actor Drake is 31. Olympic gold medal gymnast Kyla Ross is 21.

Thought for Today: “Procrastination is the bad habit of putting off until the day after tomorrow what should have been done the day before yesterday.” — Napoleon Hill, American writer (1883-1970).