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What happened in history on this day: September 24?
On September 24 in ...
- 312 - Start of Imperial Indiction.
- 366 - Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
- 673 - Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church.
- 787 - Second Council of Nicaea (seventh ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor.
- 1054 - Death of Hermann von Reichenau in Reichenau (Germany); chronicler of information in his age.
- 1180 - Manuel I Comnenus, Byzantine emperor (1143-80), dies.
- 1501 - Birth of Girolamo Cardano Italy, mathematician/astrologer (Ars Magna-1545).
- 1521 - Death of alchemist and physician Paracelsus (Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim) in Salzburg, Austria.
- 1545 - Death of Albert of Brandenburg in Mainz (Germany); Archbishop of Mainz and an Elector in the Holy Roman Empire.
- 1576 - Girolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (explored probability theory of gambling), dies at age 74 (born 1501).
- 1583 - Birth of Albrecht Wallenstein in Hermanice, Bohema; commanding general of the armies of the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
- 1625 - Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- 1683 - Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America.
- 1705 - Birth of Graf Joseph Leopold von Daun in Vienna, Austria; Austrian commander during the Seven Year's War with Prussia (1756-1763). He undertook extensive reorganization of Austria's military and upgraded its power substantially.
- 1717 - Birth of Horace Walpole England, writer (The Castle of Otranto).
- 1742 - Faneuil Hall opens to the public.
- 1755 - Birth of John Marshall in Virginia; fourth Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-35).
- 1789 - The U.S. Congress passes the Judiciary Act which provides an attorney general and the Supreme Court.
- 1829 - Russia and Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople.
- 1838 - Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law.
- 1841 - Sarawak obtained by Britain from Sultan of Brunei.
- 1852 - A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated.
- 1853 - First round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt).
- 1862 - CSA Congress adopts confederacy seal.
- 1869 - "Black Friday" in the US: Wall Steet panic after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner gold; U.S. government begins to sell off large quantities of gold.
- 1870 - Birth of Georges Claude; inventor (neon light).
- 1883 - National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky.
- 1890 - Birth of Alan Herbert in England; journalist/writer (Punch, Helen).
- 1890 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
- 1896 - Birth of F Scott Fitzgerald in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; author (Great Gatsby).
- 1898 - Birth of Baron Florey in Australia; pathologist; purified penicillin (Nobel Prize 1945).
- 1901 - Theodore Roosevelt inaugerated as President of the USA.
- 1902 - Birth of Cheryl Crawford; producer (Touch of Venus, Brigadoon).
- 1906 - US President Theodore Roosvelt declares Devil's Tower in Wyoming as the first National Monument.
- 1912 - Birth of Don Porter in Miami, Oklahoma, USA; actor (Russ Lawrence - Gidget, Ann Sothern Show).
- 1914 - Birth of Andrzej Panufnik in Warsaw, Poland; composer (Tragic Overture).
- 1914 - Birth of Herb Jeffries in Detroit, Michigan, USA; actor (Where's Huddles).
- 1915 - Birth of Larry Gates in Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA; actor (Guiding Light).
- 1917 - Birth of William Putnam Bundy in London, England; editor (Lvaggerier and Vagaries).
- 1919 - Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at age 28 off of New York Yankees' player Bob Shawkey.
- 1919 - Birth of Dayton Allen in New York City, New York, USA; comedian (Steve Allen Show).
- 1919 - Birth of Vaclav Nelhybel in Polanka, Czechoslovakia; composer (Everyman).
- 1921 - Birth of Jim McKay in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports).
- 1922 - Birth of Theresa Merritt in Newport News, Virginia, USA; actress (Mama - That's My Mama).
- 1922 - Roger Hornsby sets the National League baseball home run mark at 42.
- 1924 - Birth of Sheila MacRae in London, England; actress (Jackie Gleason Show).
- 1927 - NHL's Toronto Saint Patricks hockey team become the Toronto Maple Leafs.
- 1927 - New York Yankees set record of 106 Major League Baseball victories.
- 1930 - Birth of John W Young in San Francisco, California, USA; astronaut (Gemini 3 10, Apollo 10 16, STS 1 9).
- 1930 - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in first NFL game played under floodlights.
- 1931 - Birth of Anthony Newley; actor/song writer/singer (Dr Doolittle).
- 1934 - 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell New York Yankees' appearance at Yankee Stadium.
- 1934 - Birth of John Brunner in Britain; sci-fi author (Sheep Look Up).
- 1936 - Birth of Jim Henson in Greenville, Mississippi, USA; muppeteer (Sesame Street, The Muppet Show).
- 1938 - Adolf Hitler demands the Sudeten land by October 1.
- 1938 - Don Budge becomes first tennis player to win a grand slam.
- 1939 - Birth of Manfred Wörner; Secretary General of NATO.
- 1939 - The Soviet Government informs the Finnish Government that passage through Leningrad via Neva River would now be closed to Finnish vessels. The route was allowed by agreement of 1923, allowing for closure in case of war danger.
- 1939 - (2015-2030 hours) Official German radio broadcast declares that with the redrafting of Poland's frontiers, Germany's war is over.
- 1940 - Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career home run.
- 1941 - Nine Allied governments pledge adherence to Atlantic Charter.
- 1941 - Birth of Linda Eastman in New York City, New York, USA; Mrs Paul McCartney, rocker (Wings - Ram).
- 1943 - Birth of Lee Aaker in Los Angeles, California, USA; actor (Rusty - Rin Tin Tin).
- 1946 - Birth of "Mean" Joe Greene; NFL tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers), Coke spokesman.
- 1946 - Birth of Jacqueline Courtney in New Jersey, USA; actress (Another World, One Life to Live).
- 1948 - The Honda Motor Company is established.
- 1948 - Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Washington DC.
- 1950 - Operation Magic Carpet - 45,000 Jews from Yemen move to Israel.
- 1951 - Birth of Terry Metcalf in Seattle, Washington, USA; NFL and Canadian Football League running back (Saint Louis Rams, Toronto Argonauts).
- 1952 - Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5.
- 1954 - The Tonight Show premieres on NBC with host Steve Allen.
- 1954 - New York Yankees tie a record: three of their pinch hitters strike out in one inning.
- 1955 - US President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver, Colorado.
- 1956 - Birth of Ilona Slupianek in German Democratic Republic; shot-putter (Olympic-gold-1980).
- 1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.
- 1957 - US President Dwight Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock, Arkansas schools.
- 1958 - First welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Iowa, USA.
- 1958 - ABC debuts TV show The Donna Reed Show.
- 1959 - The ABC TV network airs the last episode of the Disney-produced TV show, Zorro. ABC cancelled the show because it was cheaper to finance its own shows. 78 episodes were produced.
- 1960 - The USS Enterprise aircraft carrier is launched at Newport News, Virginia. This is the world's first nuclear-powered carrier, also the most powerful warship ever built, at 300,000 horsepower, the longest at 1101.5 feet, and costliest at US$445 million. The ship was designed to accomodate 100 aircraft.
- 1960 - International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence.
- 1961 - The NBC TV network debuts the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show in the USA. The first show is entitled An Adventure in Color, Mathmagic Land. A new character, Ludwig von Drake, is introduced. This show airs the previously released film Donald in Mathmagic Land.
- 1962 - Birth of Joseph Kennedy II; American politician (Representative-Democrat-Massachusetts).
- 1963 - US Senate ratifies treaty with Britain and USSR limiting nuclear testing.
- 1964 - The first episode of TV show The Munsters airs.
- 1964 - Birth of Gene Watkins in Waco, Texas, USA; actor (James Walsh - As the World Turns).
- 1967 - Saint Louis Cardinals' Jim Bakken kicks seven field goals versus Pittsburgh Steelers.
- 1968 - Swaziland joins the United Nations.
- 1968 - 60 Minutes TV show premieres on CBS in the USA.
- 1968 - ABC-TV debuts The Mod Squad TV show.
- 1968 - That's Life premieres - a Broadway musical type TV show.
- 1968 - New York Mets manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack.
- 1969 - Birth of Gene Hunt; entertainer.
- 1970 - First automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16.
- 1970 - The ABC TV network airs the first The Odd Couple 30-minute comedy TV show in the USA.
- 1971 - Birth of Shane Conrad, actress (Cody - High Mountain Rangers).
- 1971 - Houston Astros beat San Diego Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings.
- 1972 - Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22.
- 1972 - Jack Tatum, Oakland Raiders' player, returns a fumble 104 yards versus Green Bay Packers (record).
- 1972 - New York Jets' Joe Namath passes for six touchdowns versus Baltimore Colts (44-34).
- 1973 - Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence.
- 1973 - Saint Louis Cardinals' Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking seven field goals.
- 1974 - Al Kaline gets his 3,000th career hit.
- 1975 - Ian Hunter, actor (Sir Richard - Robin Hood), dies at age 75.
- 1976 - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery.
- 1977 - American Broadcasting Company begins airing the TV series The Love Boat in the USA. Two Princess Cruises ships are used on the show: Island Princess and Pacific Princess.
- 1977 - Ken Hinton of Canadian Football League's British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards.
- 1978 - Ron Guidry beats Cleveland Indians 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74.
- 1979 - Compu-Serve launches the first customer Internet service, including the first public e-mail service.
- 1981 - Patsy Kelly, actress (Brigid Murphy - Cop and the Kid), dies at age 71.
- 1982 - US, Italian, and French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon.
- 1983 - Birth of Randy Foye; American basketball player.
- 1983 - The CBS TV network airs the Walt Disney TV show for the last time, entitled Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald.
- 1984 - Neil Hamilton, actor (Commissioner Gordon - Batman), dies of asthma at age 85.
- 1985 - Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15 hours 30 minutes).
- 1985 - Montreal Expos' Andre Dawson is ninth to get six RBIs in an inning (5th).
- 1985 - ABC airs the first episode of TV show Growing Pains.
- 1987 - NBC debuts the TV series A Different World.
- 1988 - Canada's Ben Johnson runs (drug-assisted) 100m in 9.79 seconds.
- 1988 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets the heptathlon woman's record (7,291).
- 1988 - (to September 26) Large, militant protests against the World Bank and IMF meetings take place in West Berlin, Germany.
- 1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk meets President George Bush in Washington, DC.
- 1990 - US Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market.
- 1991 - Theodore Seuss Geisel, American children's author ("Dr Seuss"), dies at age 87 in La Jolla, California (born 1904).
- 1993 - The International Olympic Committee selects Sydney, Australia to be the site of the 2000 Summer Olympics.
- 1993 - The ABC TV network begins airing the series Boy Meets World.
- 1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
- 1996 - ABC airs the 200th episode of the Roseanne TV show.
- 1997 - ABC begins airing the TV series Dharma and Greg.
- 2001 - Thieves with Kalashnikov assault rifles and a wrecking ball break into a cash depository in Bari, Italy, stealing US$4.16 million worth of euro coins.
- 2002 - A large fireball falls to Earth near Bodaibo, Siberia, Russia, resulting in a crater surrounded by burnt forest.
- 2003 - Death of Edward Said, Palestinian-born literary critic (born 1935).
- 2004 - Death of Françoise Sagan, French writer (born 1935).
- 2005 - Hurricane Rita hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, devastating areas near Beaumont, Texas and Lake Charles, Louisiana. The New Orleans's 9th Ward re-floods since Katrina, and Mississippi and Alabama are also affected.
- 2005 - Worldwide protests occur against the Iraq War, with over 150,000 protestors in Washington DC.
- 2005 - Polish parliamentary election: Two center-right parties win the required majority of seats.
- 2005 - Australian Rules Football team the Sydney Swans win the 2005 Grand Final, to become the AFL Premiers, defeating the West Coast Eagles at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to end a 72 year Premiership drought.
- 2006 - Europe wins the Ryder Cup in Ireland.
- 2007 - Gordon Brown addresses delegates for the first time as Prime Minister of the UK at Labour Party Conferences in Bournemouth.
- 2007 - India wins the ICC Twenty20 WorldCup beating Pakistan by five runs.
- 2007 - The One Laptop Per Child organization launches the Give 1 Get 1 marketing plan. For US$399, a buyer will purchase two XO computers, receiving one in early 2008, with the other being sent to a child in Cambodia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, or Haiti.
- 2008 - Japan's parliament confirms Taro Aso as the country's new prime minister, following the sudden resignation of the last prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, in early September.
- 2008 - France's EDF announces it will buy British Energy for 12.5 billion pounds (US$23.2 billion).
- 2008 - TV series Knight Rider debuts in the US.
- 2010 - Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut abort a return to Earth when their space capsule fails to separate from the International Space Station. Crew members later rig jumpers to bypass a failed component and succeed in opening the door.
- 2011 - A six-ton NASA science satellite, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, in Earth's orbit for 20 years, crashes to Earth, breaking up into a debris field with unknown landing sites. The satellite was placed in orbit in 1991, completed its mission in 2005, and had been slowly losing altitude ever since.
- 2015 - A stampede during the Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca kills at least 2,200 people and injures more than 900 others, with more than 650 missing.
- 2019 - U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi announces the start of a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
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