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September 24

September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years). There are 98 days remaining.

Aug - September - Oct
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Table of contents

1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 Holidays

Events

• 622 - Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina
• 1493 - Christopher Columbus's second expedition to the New World
• 1664 - Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England
• 1789 - Supreme Court of the United States and position of United States Attorney General established
• 1789 - United States Post Office Department established
• 1841 - Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain
• 1852 - The first airship is displayed
• 1869 - "Black Friday". Gold prices plummet as Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
• 1890 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy
• 1908 - The first Ford Model T is built
• 1948 - Honda Motor Company founded
• 1957 - President Dwight Eisenhower sends United States National Guard troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce desegregation
• 1962 - United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith
• 1973 - Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal
• 1993 - Broderbund releases the computer game Myst
• 1996 - The group Weezer releases Pinkerton.

Births

• 15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
• 1534 - Guru Ram Das, Fourth Sikh Guru/Master (d. 1581)
• 1717 - Horace Walpole, novelist and politician (d. 1797)
• 1755 - John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1835)
• 1896 - F Scott Fitzgerald, novelist (d. 1940)
• 1905 - Severo Ochoa, biochemist, Nobel Prize winner
• 1905 - Howard Hughes, aviator, inventor, film producer, eccentric (d. 1976)
• 1921 - Jim McKay, sports commentator
• 1923 - Louis Edmonds, actor (d. 2001)
• 1924 - Sheila MacRae, singer, actress
• 1931 - Anthony Newley, actor, singer (d. 1999)
• 1936 - Jim Henson, creator of the Muppets (d. 1990)
• 1941 - Linda McCartney, singer and animal rights activist (d. 1998)
• 1942 - Gerry Marsden, singer ("Gerry and the Pacemakers")
• 1946 - Mean Joe Greene, American football star
• 1946 - Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
• 1948 - Phil Hartman, actor (d. 1998)
• 1948 - Gordon Clapp, actor
• 1956 - Hubie Brooks, baseball player
• 1958 - Kevin Sorbo, actor
• 1959 - Steve Whitmire, voice actor
• 1962 - Nia Vardalos, actress, writer, comedienne
• 1962 - Roy Larke, professor of retailing, expert in Japanese marketing
• 1969 - Antye Greie, German musician, poem producer
• 1976 - Stephanie McMahon, WWE performer

Deaths

• 366 - Pope Liberius
• 768 - Pippin the Short, King of the Franks
• 1143 - Pope Innocent II
• 1545 - Albert of Mainz, archbishop and elector of Mainz
• 1939 - Carl Laemmle, film producer
• 1973 - Pablo Neruda, Nobel Prize winning author
• 1991 - Dr. Seuss, writer

Holidays

• South Africa - Heritage Day
• In ancient Latvia, the third day of Mikeli, and the only day of the year during which men proposed to their prospective wives

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