September 24
is the 267th day of the year (268th in
leap years). There are 98 days remaining.
*
622 -
Muhammad completes his
hegira from
Mecca to
Medina.
*
1493 -
Christopher Columbus departs on his second expedition to the
New World.
*
1664 - The
Netherlands surrenders
New Amsterdam to
England.
*
1789 - The
United States Supreme Court and the position of
Attorney General are established.
* 1789 - The
United States Post Office Department is established.
*
1841 - The
Sultan of
Brunei cedes
Sarawak to
Britain.
*
1852 - The first
airship is displayed.
*
1869 - "
Black Friday":
Gold prices plummet as
Jay Gould and
James Fisk plot to control the market.
*
1890 -
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces
polygamy.
*
1903 -
Edmund Barton steps down as
Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by
Alfred Deakin.
*
1906 - U.S. President
Theodore Roosevelt proclaims
Devils Tower the nation's first
National Monument.
*
1948 - The
Honda Motor Company is founded.
*
1950 - Forest fires black out the sun over portions of
Canada and
New England. A
Blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe.
*
1957 -
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends
United States National Guard troops to
Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce
desegregation.
*
1962 -
United States court of appeals orders the
University of Mississippi to admit
James Meredith.
*
1973 -
Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from
Portugal.
*
1988 -
Summer Olympics:
Ben Johnson beats
Carl Lewis and
Linford Christie in
100 metres sprinting in a
record time of 9.79 seconds. (Johnson would later be
disqualified in a high profile case of
doping in sports.)
*
1994 -
National League for Democracy is formed by
Aung San Suu Kyi and various people to help fight against dictatorship of
Myanmar.
*
2005 -
Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the
United States, devastating
Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern
Louisiana.
*2005 - Massive protest drawing 300,000 people to Washington DC in a march past the White house to end the war in Iraq
*
15 -
Vitellius,
Roman Emperor (d.
69)
*
1301 -
Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d.
1372)
*
1501 -
Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (d.
1576)
*
1534 -
Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d.
1581)
*
1564 -
William Adams, British navigator and samurai (d.
1620)
*
1583 -
Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d.
1634)
*
1625 -
Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (d.
1672)
*
1705 -
Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d.
1766)
*
1717 -
Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (d.
1797)
*
1724 - Sir
Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d.
1803)
*
1755 -
John Marshall, 4th
Chief Justice of the United States (d.
1835)
*
1801 -
Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d.
1862)
*
1802 -
Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d.
1868)
*
1817 -
Ramon de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d.
1901)
*
1857 -
Richard Mansfield, German-born actor (d.
1907)
*
1871 -
Lottie Dod, English athlete (d.
1960)
*
1878 -
C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d.
1947)
*
1884 -
Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d.
1953)
* 1884 -
Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d.
1963)
*
1890 -
A. P. Herbert, British humorist, barrister, novelist (d.
1971)
* 1890 -
Mike González, baseball player (d.
1977)
*
1894 -
Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d.
1968)
*
1895 -
André Frédéric Cournand, French
Nobel Laureate (d.
1988)
*
1896 -
F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d.
1940)
*
1898 -
Howard Walter Florey, Australian
Nobel Laureate (d.
1968)
*
1899 -
Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d.
1970)
*
1905 -
Severo Ochoa, Spanish
Nobel Laureate (d.
1993)
*
1909 -
Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (d.
1966)
*
1911 -
Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d.
1985)
*
1912 -
Don Porter, American actor (d.
1997)
*
1918 -
Audra Lindley, American actress (d.
1997)
*
1919 -
Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (d.
2004)
*
1921 -
Jim McKay, American sports commentator
*
1923 -
Louis Edmonds, American actor (d.
2001)
*
1924 -
Theresa Merritt, American actress (d.
1998)
* 1924 -
Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
*
1925 -
Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d.
2004)
*
1930 -
John Young, American astronaut
*
1931 -
Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (d.
1999)
*
1934 -
Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (d.
1994)
* 1934 -
Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
*
1936 -
Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d.
1990)
*
1941 -
Linda McCartney, American singer and activist (d.
1998)
*
1942 -
Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
* 1942 -
Gerry Marsden, English singer (
Gerry and the Pacemakers)
*
1945 -
Lou Dobbs, American journalist
*
1946 -
"Mean" Joe Greene, American football player
* 1946 -
Lars Emil Johansen,
Prime Minister of Greenland*
1948 -
Gordon Clapp, American actor
* 1948 -
Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (d.
1998)
*
1950 -
Alan Colmes, American talk show host
*
1951 -
Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish movie director
*
1952 -
Mark Sandman, American musician (d.
1999)
*
1955 -
Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
*
1956 -
Hubie Brooks, baseball player
*
1958 -
Kevin Sorbo, American actor
*
1959 -
Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
*
1962 -
Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress, writer, and comedienne
* 1962 -
Jack Dee, British comedian
*
1964 -
Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born baseball player
*
1966 -
Michael J. Varhola, American author
* 1966 -
Bernard Gilkey, baseball player
*
1969 -
Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (
Slipknot)
* 1969 -
Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
*
1973 -
Eddie George, American football player
*
1976 -
Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American professional wrestler
*
1978 -
Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
*
1978 -
Tarek Saab, American television show contestant
*
1980 -
John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
*
1980 -
Sabrine Maui, Filipino pornstar actress
*
1982 -
Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
* 1982 -
Paul Hamm, American gymnast
*
366 -
Pope Liberius*
768 -
Pippin the Short, King of the Franks (b.
714)
*
1054 -
Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b.
1013)
*
1143 -
Agnes of Germany, daughter of
Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b.
1072)
* 1143 -
Pope Innocent II*
1180 -
Manuel I Comnenus,
Byzantine Emperor (b.
1118)
*
1213 -
Gertrude of Merania, wife of
Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b.
1185)
*
1275 -
Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b.
1208)
*
1435 -
Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of
Charles VI of France (bc.
1370)
*
1494 -
Poliziano, Italian humanist (b.
1454)
*
1541 -
Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b.
1493)
*
1545 -
Albert of Mainz, archbishop and elector of Mainz (b.
1490)
*
1605 -
Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (bc.
1547)
*
1621 -
Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b.
1560)
*
1646 -
Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (bc.
1565)
*
1707 -
Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b.
1642)
*
1732 -
Emperor Reigen of Japan (b.
1654)
*
1802 -
Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b.
1749)
*
1834 -
Pedro I of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil (b.
1798)
*
1904 -
Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
1860)
*
1923 -
Sheila MacRae, Singer, actress (b.
1862)
*
1930 -
William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b.
1857)
*
1933 -
Mike Donlin, baseball player (b.
1878)
*
1939 -
Carl Laemmle, German film producer (b.
1867)
*
1975 -
Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b.
1906)
*
1981 -
Patsy Kelly, American actress (b.
1910)
*
1984 -
Neil Hamilton, American actor (b.
1899)
*
1991 -
Dr. Seuss, American children's writer (b.
1904)
* 1991 -
Peter Bellamy, Folk Singer (b.
1944)
*
1993 -
Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b.
1913)
*
2003 -
Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b.
1924)
* 2003 -
Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b.
1935)
*
2003 -
Anthony Durante, Professional wrestler better known as Pitbull #2 (b.
1967)
*
2004 -
Françoise Sagan, French writer (b.
1935)
*
2005 -
Tommy Bond, American actor (b.
1926)
*Late
Roman Empire - start of the
indiction year (at least since the time of
Bede)
*
Bhutan -
Blessed Rainy Day (in 2006)
*In ancient
Latvia, the third day of
Mikeli, and the only day of the year during which men proposed to their prospective wives.
*
Catholic Calendar: Our Lady of Mercy
*Also see
September 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)*
Guinea-Bissau -
Independence Day (declared, from Portugal,
1973)
*
New Caledonia - Territorial Day
*
South Africa -
Heritage Day.
*
Barcelona,
Spain - La Mercè the festival for Barcelona's patron saint. A lot of art and musical activities.
*
Trinidad and Tobago -
Republic Day (
1976)
*
French Republican Calendar -
Châtaigne (Chestnut) Day, third day in the
Month of Vendémiaire*
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