About September 24
September 24, 2024 is the 268th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 98 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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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 127 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 24
- 622 –Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina.
- 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.
- 1780 –Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold’s plot to surrender West Point.
- 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.
- 1877 –Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
- 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
- 1937 –Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
- 1950 –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.
- 1960 –USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
- 1962 –United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
- 1968 –60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
- 1968 –Swaziland joins the United Nations.
- 1973 –Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
- 2005 –Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
- 2007 –Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
- 2008 –The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1389 ft, at the time becoming the world’s highest residence above ground-level.
- 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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