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24th of September 0622 EVENT Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina.
24th of September 1180 EVENT Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
24th of September 1645 EVENT Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles
24th of September 1664 EVENT The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
24th of September 1674 EVENT Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
24th of September 1780 EVENT Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John Andre exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
24th of September 1789 EVENT The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
24th of September 1841 EVENT The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
24th of September 1852 EVENT The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
24th of September 1869 EVENT "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
24th of September 1877 EVENT Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
24th of September 1890 EVENT The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
24th of September 1906 EVENT U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
24th of September 1935 EVENT Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
24th of September 1946 EVENT Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
24th of September 1948 EVENT The Honda Motor Company is founded.
24th of September 1950 EVENT Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe.
24th of September 1957 EVENT Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
24th of September 1957 EVENT President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
24th of September 1962 EVENT United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
24th of September 1968 EVENT 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
24th of September 1968 EVENT Swaziland joins the United Nations.
24th of September 1973 EVENT Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
24th of September 1979 EVENT Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
24th of September 1988 EVENT National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
24th of September 1990 EVENT Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.
24th of September 1996 EVENT U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
24th of September 2005 EVENT Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
24th of September 2008 EVENT The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
24th of September 2009 EVENT The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of LRAD in U.S. history.
24th of September 0015 BIRTHDAY Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
24th of September 1301 BIRTHDAY Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
24th of September 1501 BIRTHDAY Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (d. 1576)
24th of September 1513 BIRTHDAY Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1535)
24th of September 1534 BIRTHDAY Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
24th of September 1564 BIRTHDAY William Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)
24th of September 1583 BIRTHDAY Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
24th of September 1625 BIRTHDAY Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
24th of September 1705 BIRTHDAY Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
24th of September 1717 BIRTHDAY Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (d. 1797)
24th of September 1725 BIRTHDAY Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
24th of September 1739 BIRTHDAY Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
24th of September 1755 BIRTHDAY John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1835)
24th of September 1796 BIRTHDAY Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (d. 1875)
24th of September 1801 BIRTHDAY Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
24th of September 1802 BIRTHDAY Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
24th of September 1817 BIRTHDAY Ramon de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
24th of September 1829 BIRTHDAY Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
24th of September 1858 BIRTHDAY Eugene Foss, 45th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
24th of September 1870 BIRTHDAY Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor (d. 1960)
24th of September 1871 BIRTHDAY Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
24th of September 1878 BIRTHDAY C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
24th of September 1880 BIRTHDAY Sarah Knauss, Oldest lived American ever (d. 1999)
24th of September 1884 BIRTHDAY Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
24th of September 1884 BIRTHDAY Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
24th of September 1890 BIRTHDAY A. P. Herbert, British humorist, barrister, novelist (d. 1971)
24th of September 1890 BIRTHDAY Mike Gonzalez, baseball player (d. 1977)
24th of September 1892 BIRTHDAY Adelard Godbout, premier of Quebec (d. 1956)
24th of September 1894 BIRTHDAY Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
24th of September 1895 BIRTHDAY Andre Frederic Cournand, French Nobel Laureate (d. 1988)
24th of September 1896 BIRTHDAY F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
24th of September 1898 BIRTHDAY Howard Walter Florey, Nobel Laureate (d. 1968)
24th of September 1899 BIRTHDAY Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
24th of September 1900 BIRTHDAY Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
24th of September 1900 BIRTHDAY Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Islamic religious leader and politician (d. 1989)
24th of September 1905 BIRTHDAY Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
24th of September 1906 BIRTHDAY Leonard Marsh, Canadian social scientist and professor (d. 1982)
24th of September 1909 BIRTHDAY Gerard Cio?ek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
24th of September 1910 BIRTHDAY Jean Servais, Belgian actor (d. 1976)
24th of September 1911 BIRTHDAY Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
24th of September 1912 BIRTHDAY Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
24th of September 1913 BIRTHDAY Herb Jeffries, American jazz singer
24th of September 1914 BIRTHDAY Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
24th of September 1918 BIRTHDAY Audra Lindley, American actress (d. 1997)
24th of September 1919 BIRTHDAY Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
24th of September 1920 BIRTHDAY Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)
24th of September 1921 BIRTHDAY Jim McKay, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
24th of September 1922 BIRTHDAY Cornell MacNeil, American baritone
24th of September 1923 BIRTHDAY Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
24th of September 1923 BIRTHDAY Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
24th of September 1924 BIRTHDAY Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
24th of September 1924 BIRTHDAY Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
24th of September 1924 BIRTHDAY Sheila MacRae, singer & actress
24th of September 1925 BIRTHDAY Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
24th of September 1927 BIRTHDAY Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
24th of September 1929 BIRTHDAY Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
24th of September 1930 BIRTHDAY Jozef Krupinski, Polish poet (d. 1998)
24th of September 1930 BIRTHDAY John W. Young, American astronaut
24th of September 1930 BIRTHDAY Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
24th of September 1931 BIRTHDAY Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (d. 1999)
24th of September 1931 BIRTHDAY Mike Parkes, British Formula One driver (d. 1977)
24th of September 1932 BIRTHDAY Dominique Michel, Canadian comedian
24th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Raffaele Farina, Archivist of the Holy Roman Church and cardinal
24th of September 1933 BIRTHDAY Mel Taylor, American musician (The Ventures) (d. 1996)
24th of September 1934 BIRTHDAY John Brunner, British author (d. 1995)
24th of September 1934 BIRTHDAY Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
24th of September 1934 BIRTHDAY Manfred Worner, German politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
24th of September 1935 BIRTHDAY Sean McCann, Canadian actor
24th of September 1936 BIRTHDAY Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
24th of September 1940 BIRTHDAY Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994)
24th of September 1941 BIRTHDAY Linda McCartney, American singer and photographer (d. 1998)
24th of September 1941 BIRTHDAY John Mackey, football player
24th of September 1942 BIRTHDAY Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
24th of September 1942 BIRTHDAY Gerry Marsden, English singer (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
24th of September 1944 BIRTHDAY Diana Korner, German actress
24th of September 1945 BIRTHDAY Lou Dobbs, American journalist and television anchor
24th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
24th of September 1946 BIRTHDAY "Mean" Joe Greene, American football player
24th of September 1947 BIRTHDAY Erik Hivju, Norwegian actor
24th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Gordon Clapp, American actor
24th of September 1948 BIRTHDAY Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (d. 1998)
24th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Alan Colmes, American talk show host
24th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Mohinder Amarnath, Indian cricketer
24th of September 1950 BIRTHDAY Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
24th of September 1951 BIRTHDAY Douglas Kmiec, American legal scholar
24th of September 1952 BIRTHDAY Dieter Hochheimer, German footballer
24th of September 1952 BIRTHDAY Mark Sandman, American musician (d. 1999)
24th of September 1955 BIRTHDAY Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
24th of September 1956 BIRTHDAY Hubie Brooks, American baseball player
24th of September 1957 BIRTHDAY Wolfgang Wolf, German footballer and manager
24th of September 1957 BIRTHDAY Tod Howarth, American rock musician
24th of September 1958 BIRTHDAY Kevin Sorbo, American actor
24th of September 1959 BIRTHDAY Theo Paphitis, Cyprus-born British entrepreneur
24th of September 1959 BIRTHDAY Steve Whitmire, American puppeteer and voice actor
24th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY John Logan, American screenwriter
24th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY Allen Bestwick, NASCAR broadcaster
24th of September 1961 BIRTHDAY Luc Picard, Canadian writer
24th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY Mike Phelan, English footballer
24th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY Jack Dee, British comedian
24th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY Rosamund Kwan, Hong Kong actress
24th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer
24th of September 1962 BIRTHDAY Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
24th of September 1964 BIRTHDAY Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born baseball player
24th of September 1965 BIRTHDAY Sean McNabb, American bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords)
24th of September 1965 BIRTHDAY Janet Weiss, American drummer (Sleater-Kinney, Quasi, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks)
24th of September 1966 BIRTHDAY Bernard Gilkey, American baseball player
24th of September 1966 BIRTHDAY Stefan Molyneux, Canadian philosopher
24th of September 1966 BIRTHDAY Stacy Galina, American actress
24th of September 1966 BIRTHDAY Michael J. Varhola, American author
24th of September 1967 BIRTHDAY William So, Hong Kong Singer
24th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Shawn Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
24th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY DeVante Swing, American music producer
24th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Shamim Sarif, English novelist and filmmaker
24th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Goya Toledo, Spanish actress and model
24th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Megan Ward, American actress
24th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Lisa Matthews, American model
24th of September 1969 BIRTHDAY Paul Ray Smith, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2003)
24th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Michael S. Engel, American paleontologist and entomologist
24th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Kevin Millar, American baseball player
24th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Mike Michalowicz, American author and entrepreneur
24th of September 1971 BIRTHDAY Peter Salisbury, English drummer (The Verve)
24th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Eddie George, American football player
24th of September 1973 BIRTHDAY Rodrick Rhodes, American basketball player
24th of September 1974 BIRTHDAY John McDonald, American baseball player
24th of September 1975 BIRTHDAY Mike Gallay, Canadian comedian and filmmaker
24th of September 1975 BIRTHDAY Kyle Turley, American football player
24th of September 1976 BIRTHDAY Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
24th of September 1976 BIRTHDAY Stephanie McMahon, American professional wrestler
24th of September 1977 BIRTHDAY Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer
24th of September 1978 BIRTHDAY Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
24th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Fabio Aurelio, Brazilian footballer
24th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Justin Bruening, American actor
24th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Kim Jong Min, Korean singer
24th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Jenny Platt, English Actress
24th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Katja Kassin, German pornographic actress
24th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Casey Johnson, American heiress and socialite (d. 2010)
24th of September 1979 BIRTHDAY Ross Mathews, American television personality and comedian
24th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY Daniele Bennati, Italian road racing cyclist
24th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY Sabrine Maui, Filipino pornographic actress
24th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY Dean Canto, Australian racing driver
24th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
24th of September 1980 BIRTHDAY John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
24th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Ryan Briscoe, Australian racing driver
24th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Fernanda Urrejola, Chilean actress
24th of September 1981 BIRTHDAY Drew Gooden, American basketball player
24th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
24th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Paul Hamm, American gymnast
24th of September 1982 BIRTHDAY Jeff Karstens, American baseball player
24th of September 1983 BIRTHDAY Randy Foye, American basketball player
24th of September 1984 BIRTHDAY Tyrone Maria, Curacao footballer
24th of September 1985 BIRTHDAY Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress
24th of September 1986 BIRTHDAY Leah Dizon, American model and singer
24th of September 1987 BIRTHDAY Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
24th of September 1988 BIRTHDAY Karl Alzner, Canadian ice hockey player
24th of September 1988 BIRTHDAY Kyle Sullivan, American actor
24th of September 1991 BIRTHDAY Maximiliano Ugge, Italian footballer
24th of September 0366 DEATH Pope Liberius
24th of September 0768 DEATH Pippin the Short, King of the Franks (Born 714)
24th of September 1054 DEATH Hermannus Contractus, scholar (Born 1013)
24th of September 1120 DEATH Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (Born 1072)
24th of September 1143 DEATH Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1072)
24th of September 1143 DEATH Pope Innocent II
24th of September 1180 DEATH Manuel I Comnenus, Greek Byzantine Emperor (Born 1118)
24th of September 1213 DEATH Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (Born 1185)
24th of September 1218 DEATH Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (Born 1160)
24th of September 1275 DEATH Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (Born 1208)
24th of September 1435 DEATH Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of Charles VI of France (Born c.1370)
24th of September 1494 DEATH Poliziano, Italian humanist (Born 1454)
24th of September 1541 DEATH Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (Born 1493)
24th of September 1545 DEATH Albert of Mainz, archbishop and elector of Mainz (Born 1490)
24th of September 1605 DEATH Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (Born c.1547)
24th of September 1621 DEATH Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (Born 1560)
24th of September 1646 DEATH Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (Born c.1565)
24th of September 1707 DEATH Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (Born 1642)
24th of September 1732 DEATH Emperor Reigen of Japan (Born 1654)
24th of September 1742 DEATH Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (Born 1684)
24th of September 1802 DEATH Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (Born 1749)
24th of September 1834 DEATH Pedro I of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil (Born 1798)
24th of September 1889 DEATH Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist (Born 1856)
24th of September 1892 DEATH Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer (Born 1829)
24th of September 1896 DEATH Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (Born 1818)
24th of September 1904 DEATH Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (Born 1860)
24th of September 1929 DEATH Prince Mahidol of the Kingdom of Thailand (Born 1892)
24th of September 1930 DEATH William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (Born 1857)
24th of September 1933 DEATH Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (Born 1869)
24th of September 1933 DEATH Mike Donlin, American baseball player (Born 1878)
24th of September 1938 DEATH Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (Born 1900)
24th of September 1939 DEATH Carl Laemmle, German-born American film producer (Born 1867)
24th of September 1945 DEATH Hans Geiger, German physicist (Born 1882)
24th of September 1948 DEATH Warren William, American actor (Born 1894)
24th of September 1950 DEATH Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (Born 1863)
24th of September 1954 DEATH Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (Born 1904)
24th of September 1962 DEATH Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (Born 1887)
24th of September 1973 DEATH Josue de Castro, Brazilian writer, physician, geographer and activist against hunger (Born 1908)
24th of September 1975 DEATH Earle Cabell, Texas politician (Born 1906)
24th of September 1978 DEATH Hasso von Manteuffel, German army general and politician (Born 1897)
24th of September 1981 DEATH Patsy Kelly, American actress (Born 1910)
24th of September 1982 DEATH Sarah Churchill, British actress and the daughter of Winston Churchill (Born 1914)
24th of September 1984 DEATH Neil Hamilton, American actor (Born 1899)
24th of September 1991 DEATH Peter Bellamy, British folk singer (Born 1944)
24th of September 1991 DEATH Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), American children's writer (Born 1904)
24th of September 1993 DEATH Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (Born 1957)
24th of September 1993 DEATH Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (Born 1913)
24th of September 1994 DEATH Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (Born 1932)
24th of September 1996 DEATH Zeki Muren, Turkish musician (Born 1931)
24th of September 1998 DEATH Jeff Moss, American puppeteer (Born 1942)
24th of September 2002 DEATH Youssouf Togoimi, Chadian rebel (Born 1953)
24th of September 2002 DEATH Mike Webster, American football player (Born 1952)
24th of September 2003 DEATH Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (Born 1924)
24th of September 2003 DEATH Lyle Bettger, American actor (Born 1915)
24th of September 2004 DEATH Francoise Sagan, French writer (Born 1935)
24th of September 2005 DEATH Tommy Bond, American actor (Born 1926)
24th of September 2006 DEATH Michael Ferguson, Irish politician (Born 1953)
24th of September 2006 DEATH Phil Latulippe, Canadian soldier and athlete (Born 1909)
24th of September 2008 DEATH Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (Born 1918)
24th of September 2009 DEATH Nelly Arcan, Canadian novelist (Born 1975)
24th of September 2009 DEATH Susan Atkins, American murderer (Born 1948)
24th of September 2010 DEATH Gennady Yanayev, Soviet politician (Born 1937)