About September 24
September 24, 2025 is the 267th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 98 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.
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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 146 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.
- 1852 –The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 mi from Paris to Trappes.
- 1877 –Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
- 1890 –The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
- 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).
- 1946 –Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
- 1948 –The Honda Motor Company is founded.
- 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.
- 1957 –President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
- 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 –Swaziland joins the United Nations.
- 1973 –Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
- 1979 –Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
- 1990 –Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.
- 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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