Historical Events on 24th September ◀ Aug September Oct ▶ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 All Events Birthdays Weddings Deaths Events 1 - 195 of 195 312 - 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 & coroners 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 The Sun King of France Louis XIVThe Sun King of France Louis XIV 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 Ist US Chief Justice John JayIst US Chief Justice John Jay 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 Grillparzers 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 & Gills 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 Blossoms 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 ALs 1st pinch-hit grand slam Baseball Legend Babe RuthBaseball Legend Babe Ruth 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 - NHLs Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs 1927 - Yanks set record of 106 victories 1928 - Cohan/Lardners 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 Aviation Pioneer Jimmy DoolittleAviation Pioneer Jimmy Doolittle 1929 - Yanks Tom Zachary ends season 12-0 1930 - G Kaufman & M Harts Once in a Lifetime premieres in NY 1930 - Noel Cowards Private Lives premieres in London 1930 - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights 1931 - Round-robin playoff among NYCs 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 Ruths 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 Tennis Champion Alice MarbleTennis Champion Alice Marble 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 Heavyweight Boxing Champion Rocky MarcianoHeavyweight Boxing Champion Rocky Marciano 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 LPGA Golfer Mickey WrightLPGA Golfer Mickey Wright 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 - Thats Life premieres-A Broadway musical type TV show MLB First Baseman Gil HodgesMLB First Baseman Gil Hodges 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 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 LPGA Golfer Donna CaponiLPGA Golfer Donna Caponi 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 MLB Player and Manager Pete RoseMLB Player and Manager Pete Rose 1980 - Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season 1980 - Iraqi troops cross Irans 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 Musician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartneyMusician & member of the Beatles Paul McCartney 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 - Canadas 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 Olympic Sprinter and Long jumper Carl LewisOlympic Sprinter and Long jumper Carl Lewis 1988 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets heptathlon womans 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 1991 - Good & Evil & Sibs premieres on ABC TV 1991 - After 3 year reign as AL champs, As are eliminated from AL West NFL Legend Deion SandersNFL Legend Deion Sanders 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 - Torontos 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. Burmese Politician Aung San Suu KyiBurmese Politician Aung San Suu Kyi 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 Estefans 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 FBIs 10 most-wanted list 2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana. Iran President Mahmoud AhmadinejadIran President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 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
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