September 24

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

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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays
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 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 succeded by Alfred Deakin.
1940 - Baseball: Jimmie Foxx becomes the second member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1948 - The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends United States National Guard troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1961 - The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg *2005 - returns to its newly rebuilt house as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
1962 - United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
1973 - Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
1988 - 1988 Summer Olympics: Ben Johnson "defeated" 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 releases Nevermind.
1991 - Red Hot Chili Peppers releases Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
1993 - Brøderbund releases the computer game Myst.
2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and Houston, Texas.
2005 - September 24, 2005 anti-war protest

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 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, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1835)
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)
1890 - A. P. Herbert, British humorist, barrister, novelist (d. 1971)
1894 - Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
1898 - Howard Walter Florey, Australian scientist (d. 1968)
1899 - Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
1905 - Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1993)
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/comedian/voice actor (d. 2004)
1921 - Jim McKay, American sports commentator
1923 - Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
1924 - Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
1925 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
1930 - John Young, American astronaut
1931 - Anthony Newley, British actor, singer (d. 1999)
1934 - Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
1936 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
1941 - Linda McCartney, American singer and animal rights activist (d. 1998)
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 - Phil Hartman, American actor (d. 1998)
1948 - Gordon Clapp, American actor
1950 - Alan Colmes, American talk show host
1951 - Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish movie director
1954 - Patrick Kelly, American fashion designer (d. 1990)
1956 - Hubie Brooks, baseball player
1958 - Kevin Sorbo, American actor
1959 - Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
1962 - Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress, writer, and comedienne
1969 - Donald DeGrate, Jr., music producer
1969 - Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
1976 - Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American professional wrestler
1980 - John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
1982 - Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
1982 - Paul Hamm, American gymnast

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, Byzantine Emperor
1213 - Gertrude of Meran, queen 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, queen of Charles VI of France
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
1621 - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
1646 - Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer
1707 - Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
1732 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
1802 - Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)
1904 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician (b. 1860)
1930 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
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)
2003 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
2003 - Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (b. 1935)
2004 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
2005 - Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)

Holidays

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.
R.C. Saints - conception of John the Baptist; Our Lady of Mercy

Also see September 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)