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.
- 1645 –Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles
- 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.
- 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.
- 1946 –Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.
- 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 –Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
- 1957 –President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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