About September 24
September 24, 2021 is the 267th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 98 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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Libra is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 130 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 24
- 1180 –Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
- 1664 –The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
- 1789 –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.
- 1841 –The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
- 1852 –The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 mi from Paris to Trappes.
- 1869 –“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.
- 1890 –The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
- 1906 –U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument.
- 1914 –World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
- 1932 –Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the “Depressed Classes” (Untouchables).
- 1935 –Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
- 1948 –The Honda Motor Company is founded.
- 1960 –USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
- 1968 –60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
- 1968 –Swaziland joins the United Nations.
- 1979 –Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
- 1988 –National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
- 1996 –Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
- 2007 –Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
- 2009 –The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of LRAD in U.S. history.
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