september 24 in English

September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in
leap years)
in the
Gregorian calendar.
There are 98 days remaining.

Events
List of 20 items
. 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.)
. 1991 -
Nirvana'
s
Nevermind
album released
. 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.
list end

Births
List of 83 items
. 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 (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)
. 1739 -
Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin,
Russian statesman (d.
1791)
. 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)
. 1870 -
Georges Claude,
French chemist and inventor (d.
1960)
. 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)
. 1892 -
Adélard Godbout,
premier of Québec
(d.
1956)
. 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,
Nobel Laureate
(d.
1968)
. 1899 -
Sir William Dobell,
Australian portrait artist (d.
1970)
. 1900 -
Ham Fisher,
American cartoonist (d.
1955)
. 1905 -
Severo Ochoa,
Nobel Laureate
(d.
1993)
. 1909 -
Gerard Ciolek,
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)
. 1923 -
Fats Navarro,
American jazz trumpet player (d.
1950)
. 1924 -
Theresa Merritt,
American actress (d.
1998)
. 1924 -
Nina Bocharova,
Soviet gymnast
. 1925 -
Autar Singh Paintal,
Indian medical scientist (d.
2004)
. 1929 -
Edward M. Lawson,
Canadian politician
. 1930 -
John W. Young,
American astronaut
. 1931 -
Anthony Newley,
British actor and singer (d.
1999)
. 1932 -
Dominique Michel,
French Canadian comedian
. 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 (d.
1998)
. 1941 -
John Mackey,
National Football League
player
. 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
. 1947 -
Erik Hivju,
Norwegian actor
. 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
. 1961 -
Allen Bestwick,
Nascar Broadcaster
. 1961 -
John Logan,
American screenwriter
. 1962 -
Nia Vardalos,
Canadian actress
. 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 TV show contestant
. 1980 -
John Arne Riise,
Norwegian footballer
. 1980 -
Sabrine Maui,
Filipino pornstar
. 1982 -
Morgan Hamm,
American gymnast
. 1982 -
Paul Hamm,
American gymnast
list end

Deaths
List of 44 items
. 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)
. 1742 -
Johann Matthias Hase,
German scientist (b.
1684)
. 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)
. 1933 -
Alice Muriel Williamson,
British novelist (b.
1869)
. 1938 -
Lev Schnirelmann,
Russian mathematician (b.
1900)
. 1939 -
Carl Laemmle,
German film producer (b.
1867)
. 1945 -
Hans Geiger,
German physicist (b.
1882)
. 1948 -
Warren William,
American actor (b.
1894)
. 1975 -
Earle Cabell,
Texas politician (b.
1906)
. 1981 -
Patsy Kelly,
American actress (b.
1910)
. 1982 -
Sarah Churchill,
British actress (b.
1914)
. 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)
. 1993 -
Ian Stuart Donaldson,
British musician (b.
1957)
. 2002 -
Mike Webster,
National Football League
player (b.
1952)
. 2003 -
Rosalie Allen,
American singer and disc jockey (b.
1924)
. 2003 -
Edward Said,
Palestinian-born literary critic (b.
1935)
. 2003 -
Anthony Durante,
American wrestler (b.
1967)
. 2003 -
Lyle Bettger,
American acresss (b.
1915)
. 2004 -
Françoise Sagan,
French writer (b.
1935)
. 2005 -
Tommy Bond,
American actor (b.
1926)
list end

Holidays and observances
List of 11 items
. 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
list end



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