Historical Events on September 24

Events 1 - 200 of 228

• 312 Start of Imperial Indication
• 366 Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
• 673 Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church

• 787 Second Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor in present-day İznik, Turkey
• 1180 Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.

• 1537 Catholic uprising in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (now Germany) fails
• 1625 Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
• 1629 Danish Renaissance Kronborg Castle guarding Øresund Sound, is mostly destroyed in a fire (later rebuilt)
• 1629 Jacques Specx appointed governor-general of Dutch-Indies
• 1657 1st autopsy and coroner's jury verdict is recorded in Maryland
• 1664 Dutch Fort Orange (New Netherland) in present day Albany NY surrenders to the English

• 1688 France declares war on Germany
• 1688 Louis-Armand de Lom d’Arce leaves Michillimakinac on a mysterious journey of exploration about which he later writes he discovered a 'Long' river [1]

• 1742 Faneuil Hall, Boston, opens to the public
• 1776 First St Leger horesrace held at Doncaster
• 1786 African American slave and poet Jupiter Hammon makes his "Address to the Negroes of the State of New York" speech advocating emancipation at meeting of African Society in NY

• 1789 US Attorney General Office is created
• 1789 US Congress establishes Post Office Department following the new constitution
• 1789 US Federal Judiciary Act passes, creating a six-person Supreme Court
• 1829 Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
• 1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law

• 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 France annexes New Caledonia
• 1853 Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
• 1862 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
• 1869 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
• 1870 Dar Al-Kutub (National Library of and Archives of Egypt) inaugurated in Mustafa Fadel's palace, Cairo. The first national library in the Middle East. [1]
• 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
• 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 The President of the Latter-day Saints Wilford Woodruff issues a manifesto advising members that the teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned

• 1903 Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle
• 1906 Prince George of Greece, convinced that he can no longer serve the cause of Crete, resigns as High Commissioner
• 1906 St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
• 1906 Victor Herbert and Henry Blossom's operetta musical "The Red Mill" opens at the Knickerbocker Theater, NYC
• 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

• 1920 Future Baseball Hall of Fame slugger Babe Ruth becomes first to hit 50 home runs in a MLB season with a 1st inning blast off Jose Acosta in a 2-1 loss to the Washington Senators
• 1922 Nuremberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky

• 1924 Boston, Massachusetts, opens its airport
• 1926 Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4
• 1927 New York Yankees set a record of 106 victories
• 1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs

• 1929 New York Yankee pitcher Tom Zachary ends season 12-0, record for most pitching wins without a loss in one season
• 1930 G Kaufman & M Hart's comedy "Once in a Lifetime" premieres in NY

• 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

• 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

• 1940 Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
• 1940 Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton
• 1941 Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
• 1941 Nine Allied governments pledge adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the Atlantic Charter
• 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, D.C.
• 1948 MLB NY Yankees, Boston Red Sox & Cleveland Indians are all tied for 1st place in AL (91-56)
• 1948 The Honda Motor Company is founded in Hamamatsu-city, Japan

• 1951 Industrial estate opens at Harlow New Town, England
• 1951 USSR performs nuclear test

• 1952 Dutch Minister of Justice Leendert Donker commutes Nazi war criminal Willy Lages execution sentence to life in prison; Lages is released in 1966 due to failing health, he lives for 5 more years
• 1952 Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
• 1953 "Take a Giant Step" opens on Broadway

• 1954 Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning

• 1955 Washington Senators lose their 99th & 100th games of season

• 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
• 1957 Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona
• 1958 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Iowa
• 1958 Donna Reed Show premieres on ABC
• 1960 International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
• 1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launched
• 1962 KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
• 1962 US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to University of Mississippi
• 1963 Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards
• 1963 US Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limiting nuclear testing
• 1964 "The Munsters" premieres on TV
• 1964 1st Minuteman II ICBM was tested

• 1964 Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as Prime Minister of German Democratic Republic
• 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 the Caribbean, Florida & Mexico
• 1966 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
• 1967 NFL St. Loius Cardinals' Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals at Pittsburgh Steelers, setting NFL record at the time

• 1968 "That's Life" premieres - A Broadway musical type TV show

• 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

• 1969 NY Mets clinch NL East pennant
• 1969 Ton Duc Thang is elected President of North Vietnam
• 1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem National Conv) begins
• 1970 Soviet space probe 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 San Diego Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings
• 1972 Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22
• 1972 Jack Tatum, Oakland, sets NFL record with 104-yard fumble return, in a 20-14 win over Green Bay Packers at Lambeau Field, Green Bay Wisconsin; record tied by Aeneas Williams of the Arizona Cardinals in 2000

• 1973 West African nation of Portuguese Guinea declares independence from Portugal as the Republic of Guinea-Bissau

• 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

• 1977 1st broadcast of "Love Boat" on ABC-TV
• 1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards
• 1977 Russian musical review "Estrada" closes a limited run at Majestic Theater, NYC, after 7 performances
• 1978 Dutch women hockey team wins world championship

• 1978 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1979 CompuServe begins offering a dial-up online information service to consumers, marketed as MicroNET [1]
• 1979 Ghana adopts constitution

• 1979 Russian Olympic and World Champion figure skaters Oleg Protopopov & Ludmila 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 US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon

• 1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
• 1984 Chicago Cubs clinch NL East title

• 1985 Apollo Computer Inc lays off 300 employees
• 1985 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)

• 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 100m 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 East German cyclist Christa Luding-Rothenburger wins silver medal in the women's track sprint at the Seoul Olympics; first athlete to win medals at Summer & Winter Games in same year; won speed skating gold in Calgary
• 1988 Soviet gymnast Vladimir Artemov shares horizontal bar gold medal with teammate Valeri Liukin at the Seoul Olympics; also wins the parallel bars event to take his gold medal haul to 4 for the Games
• 1988 Swimmer Silke Hörner wins her second gold medal of the Seoul Olympics as part of the victorious East German 4 x 100m medley relay team
• 1988 West German swimmer Michael Gross wins 200m butterfly in Olympic record 1:56.94 at the Seoul Games; third career gold medal
• 1989 ABC's premiere of "The Preppie Murder", based on 1986 murder in New York City of Jennifer Levin by ex prep school student Robert Chambers
• 1990 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact

• 1990 Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn

• 1990 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
• 1990 West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
• 1991 "Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premieres on ABC TV
• 1991 After 3 year reign as AL champs, A's are eliminated from AL West

• 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

• 1993 1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord

• 1994 Parliamentary election in Ukraine

• 1995 Volcano Mount Ruapehu (North Island, NZ) erupts

• 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 ICC Men's Cricket T20 World Cup, Johannesburg: India wins inaugural tournament with a 5-run win over Pakistan; Man of the Series: Pakistan all-rounder Shahid Afridi (91 runs • 12 wkts)

• 2012 Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores
• 2013 "The Goldbergs" by Adam F. Goldberg premieres in the US on ABC

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