october 24th in history: what happened

Empress Elizabeth in 1745 ordered to bring cats to the royal palaces for catching mice.

In 1857, graduates of Cambridge University (UK) founded the world’s first football team in Sheffield.

In 1901, American adventurer Annie Taylor crossed Niagara Falls in a barrel.

And in 1939, the DuPont Corporation for the first time in the world put on sale nylon stockings (in Wilmington, USA, Delaware).

On October 24, the Dutch naturalist, founder of microscopy Antoni van Leeuwengu (1632), German physicist, creator of the first telegraph Wilhelm Weber (1804), founder of the Austrian crystal empire Swarovski Daniel Swarovski (1862), Soviet aircraft engineer, Hero of Socialist Labor Alexei Isayev (1908) were born.