Notable Historical Events on September 24th
September 24th Historical Events
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
312 |
Start of Imperial Indication |
366 |
Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
673 |
Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church |
787 |
2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor |
1180 |
Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline. |
1493 |
Columbus' 2nd expedition to New World |
1537 |
Uprising in Lubeck fails |
1625 |
Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico |
1629 |
Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies |
1657 |
First autopsy & coroner's jury verdict is recorded in Maryland |
1664 |
Dutch Fort Orange (New Netherland) in present day Albany NY surrenders to the English |
1683 |
King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America |
1688 |
France declares war on Germany |
1706 |
Treaty of Altranstädt: Charles XII of Sweden & August II of Saksen |
1742 |
Faneuil Hall, Boston, opens to public |
1776 |
First St Leger horesrace held at Doncaster |
1789 |
US Congress establishes Post Office Department following the new constitution |
1789 |
US Federal Judiciary Act is passed & creates a six-person Supreme Court |
1789 |
President George Washington nominates John Jay the 1st Chief Justice |
1789 |
US Attorney General Office is created |
1829 |
Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople |
1838 |
Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law |
1841 |
Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei (James Brooke appointed Rajah) |
1850 |
Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England |
1852 |
Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st engine powered dirigible/airship flight with steam power |
1853 |
1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt) |
1853 |
France annexes New Caledonia |
1853 |
Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London |
1862 |
Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal |
1865 |
James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF |
1869 |
Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold |
1872 |
Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg" premieres in Vienna |
1877 |
Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion |
1881 |
Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch |
1883 |
National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky |
1884 |
Dixey, Rice & Gill's musical "Adonis" premieres in NYC |
1885 |
Five German warships depart to Zanzibar |
1889 |
Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder |
1890 |
President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching & practice of polygamy should be abandoned |
1895 |
1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months) |
1902 |
Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" (BG) |
1903 |
Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Barton as Australia premier |
1903 |
Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle |
1906 |
St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game |
1906 |
V Herbert & H Blossom's musical "Red Mill" premieres in NYC |
1906 |
Prince George of Greece, convinced that he can no longer serve the cause of Crete, resigns as High Commissioner |
1908 |
Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1 |
1916 |
Indians' Marty Kavanaugh, hits AL's 1st pinch-hit grand slam |
1919 |
Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey |
1922 |
Nuremberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky |
1922 |
Roger Hornsby sets NL HR mark at 42 |
1923 |
Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin) |
1924 |
Boston, Massachusetts, opens its airport |
1926 |
Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4 |
1927 |
NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs |
1927 |
Yanks set record of 106 victories |
1928 |
Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great" premieres in NYC |
1929 |
Lt James Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight |
1929 |
Yanks Tom Zachary ends season 12-0 |
1930 |
G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime" premieres in NY |
1930 |
Noel Coward's "Private Lives" premieres in London |
1930 |
Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights |
1931 |
Round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks |
1932 |
NY Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt visits LA |
1934 |
2,500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium |
1934 |
Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0 |
1935 |
Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi |
1938 |
Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title |
1938 |
Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to win a grand slam |
1940 |
Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR |
1940 |
Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton |
1941 |
Nine Allied governments pledge adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the Atlantic Charter |
1941 |
Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev |
1943 |
Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk |
1946 |
Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs |
1948 |
Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally), an American broadcaster employed by the Third Reich in Nazi Germany to proliferate propaganda during World War II, pleads not guilty to eight chargs of treason in Washington, DC |
1948 |
Yanks, Boston & Cleveland are tied for 1st place in AL (91-56) |
1948 |
The Honda Motor Company is founded. |
1950 |
"Operation Magic Carpet" - all Jews from Yemen move to Israel |
1951 |
Industrial estate opens at Harlow New Town, England |
1951 |
USSR performs nuclear test |
1952 |
Dutch minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death |
1952 |
Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5 |
1953 |
"Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway |
1953 |
Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
1954 |
Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later) |
1954 |
Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning |
1955 |
"Catch a Star" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances |
1955 |
US President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver |
1955 |
Washington Senators lose their 99th & 100th games of season |
1957 |
Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0 |
1957 |
President Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools |
1957 |
Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona. |
1958 |
Donna Reed Show premiers on ABC |
1958 |
1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia |
1960 |
International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence |
1960 |
USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launched |
1961 |
Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sacramento Valley Golf Open |
1962 |
KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
1962 |
US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Miss |
1963 |
Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards |
1963 |
US Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limiting nuclear testing |
1964 |
"Munsters" premieres on TV |
1964 |
1st Minuteman II ICBM was tested |
1964 |
Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd |
1964 |
Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as premier of German DR |
1965 |
Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament |
1965 |
Saudi Arabian & Egyptian accord over Yemen |
1965 |
Stefan Stefanopoulos forms Greek government |
1966 |
-30] Hurricane Inez, kills 293 in Caribbean, Florida & Mexico |
1966 |
France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island |
1967 |
Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers |
1967 |
Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
1968 |
"60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV |
1968 |
"That's Life" premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show |
1968 |
NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack |
1968 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1969 |
1st Elvis convention, 2500 fans attend in Cincinnati |
1969 |
NY Mets clinch NL East pennant |
1969 |
Ton Duc Thang elected president of North Vietnam |
1969 |
Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins |
1970 |
1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16 |
1970 |
Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon |
1971 |
90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying |
1971 |
Eyskens-Cools disbands Belgium parliament |
1971 |
Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings |
1972 |
Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22 |
1972 |
Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yds vs Green Bay (rec) |
1972 |
NY Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs Balt Colt (44-34) |
1973 |
Guinea-Bissau declares independence from Portugal |
1973 |
St Louis Cards Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals |
1974 |
Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits |
1974 |
Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title |
1975 |
OPEC announces a 15% increase in government per barrel revenues |
1976 |
"Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 5959 performances |
1976 |
Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter |
1977 |
"Estrada" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 7 performances |
1977 |
1st broadcast of "Love Boat" on ABC-TV |
1977 |
Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards |
1978 |
Donna Caponi Young/Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ping Team Golf Classic |
1978 |
Dutch women hockey team wins world championship |
1978 |
Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74 |
1978 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1979 |
CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service |
1979 |
Ghana adopts constitution |
1979 |
Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time |
1979 |
Russian ice skaters Protopopov & Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland |
1979 |
USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR |
1980 |
Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season |
1980 |
Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan |
1981 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1982 |
Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26 |
1982 |
US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon |
1983 |
Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs & steal 30 bases in season |
1983 |
Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of Hanif, v India Jullundur |
1983 |
USSR performs underground nuclear test |
1984 |
Cubs clinch NL East title |
1984 |
Paul McCartney release "No More Lonely Nights" |
1985 |
Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees |
1985 |
Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m) |
1985 |
Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th), and joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice |
1987 |
US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
1988 |
Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop |
1988 |
Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec |
1988 |
Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec) |
1988 |
Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th |
1988 |
Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets heptathlon woman's record (7,291) |
1989 |
28th Ryder Cup: US & Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England |
1989 |
Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Nippon Travel-MBS Golf Classic |
1990 |
East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact |
1990 |
South African President F W de Klerk meets US President Bush in Washington DC |
1990 |
Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market |
1990 |
West German Pres Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty |
1990 |
Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn |
1990 |
Iraq invades the French and Dutch missions in Kuwait; French President Mitterrand called the action a violation of international law; a U.S. warship boards an Iraqi-flagged tanker bound for the port of Basrah |
1990 |
Saddam Hussein states his willingness to strike first and his intention to damage oil fields in the region if Iraq does strike |
1991 |
"Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premieres on ABC TV |
1991 |
After 3 year reign as AL champs, A's are eliminated from AL West |
1991 |
Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns |
1991 |
Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles |
1992 |
John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers) |
1992 |
Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in NJ Devils history |
1992 |
Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is oldest player to reach 100-RBI |
1993 |
1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord |
1993 |
Norodom Sihanouk again installed as King of Cambodia |
1994 |
Parliamentary election in Ukraine |
1994 |
National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar. |
1995 |
31st Ryder Cup: Europe beats US, 14½-13½ at Oak Hill County Club (Rochester, New York, US) |
1995 |
Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic |
1995 |
Emillio & Gloria Estefan's boat hits & kills a jet skiier |
1995 |
Volcano Mount Ruapehu (North Island, NZ) erupts |
1996 |
U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations. |
1997 |
31st Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood & George Strait wins |
1997 |
Drug kingpin Ramon Arellano Felix placed on FBI's 10 most-wanted list |
2001 |
Crude oil and petroleum products futures fall to their lowest levels in nearly two years amid fears that a recession will reduce energy demand |
2005 |
Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana. |
2007 |
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University. |
2012 |
Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores |
2013 |
515 people are killed by a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in Balochistan, Pakistan |
2016 |
4 Dead in Shooting at Mall in Washington State, Police Say |
2016 |
Long a rival, Ted Cruz endorses Trump in US presidential race |
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