September 24

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September 24 in recent years 2007 (Monday) 2006 (Sunday) 2005 (Saturday) 2004 (Friday) 2003 (Wednesday) 2002 (Tuesday) 2001 (Monday) 2000 (Sunday) 1999 (Friday) 1998 (Thursday) 1997 (Wednesday) 1996 (Tuesday) 1995 (Sunday)

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

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays and observances 5 External links

Events

• 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 after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
• 1877 - Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
• 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.
• 1935 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
• 1946 - Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong
• 1947 - Majestic 12 is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman
• 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.)
• 1990 - Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
• 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.

Births

• 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'Archaic, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
• 1817 - Ramon de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
• 1829 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
• 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 Ciołek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
• 1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
• 1912 - Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1914 - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
• 1918 - Audra Lindley, American actress (d. 1997)
• 1919 - Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
• 1921 - Jim McKay, American sports commentator
• 1922 - Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1923 - Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1923 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
• 1924 - Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
• 1924 - Sheila MacRae, singer & actress
• 1925 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
• 1929 - Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
• 1930 - John W. Young, American astronaut
• 1930 - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (d. 1998)
• 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
• 1966 - Stacy Galina, American actress
• 1969 - Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
• 1969 - Donald DeGrate, Jr., American music producer
• 1969 - Megan Ward, American actress
• 1969 - Goya Toledo, Spanish-born Mexican actress and model
• 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
• 1983 - Randy Foye, American basketball player
• 1984 - Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer

Deaths

• 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, Greek 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)
• 1896 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
• 1904 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
• 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 - Theodor Geisel, a.k.a. 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 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
• 2002 - Mike Webster, National Football League player (b. 1952)
• 2003 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
• 2003 - Anthony Durante, American wrestler (b. 1967)
• 2003 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2004 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
• 2005 - Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances

• Late Roman Empire - start of the indiction year (at least since the time of Bede).
• 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 and Our Lady of Walsingham.
• Also see September 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
• Guinea-Bissau - Independence Day (declared, from Portugal, 1973).
• New Caledonia - Territorial Day.
• England - Our Lady of Walsingham.
• 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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