Historical milestones on October 24 and 25

October 24 marks several significant historical events, including the 1857 founding of Sheffield FC, the world's first football club. In 1945, the United Nations was officially established. Other notable occurrences include Greece purchasing the battleship Averof from Italy in 1909, Giorgos Seferis receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, and the signing of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648, which ended the Thirty Years' War and recognized Swiss neutrality.

Additionally, October 24 is noted for the 1929 Black Thursday stock market crash in New York, which triggered the Great Depression. On October 25, 1959, the first season of the Greek Alpha Ethniki football championship commenced, featuring 16 clubs from across Greece. The inaugural matches included victories for Proodeftiki, Pankorinthiakos, PAOK, Panathinaikos, and AEK.