On October 24 in the history: that happened this day

The empress Elizabeth in 1745 enjoined to deliver to imperial palaces of cats for catching of mice. In 1861 on telegraph the first-ever transcontinental telegram is transferred. The message from judges Stephana Dzh. Filda from State of California received President of the United States Abraham Lincoln. This day, but in 1897, in Saint Petersburg the first is carried out in the history of Russian Federation officially recorded football match. And in 2000 in the Berlin Egyptian museum Cleopatra's autograph is found only in the world. On October 24 the Swiss doctor and the alchemist Paracelsus (1493) were born; Russian revolutionary Ordzhonikidze Grigory (1886); ...