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

Events

• 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.
• 1674 – Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
• 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 passed a Judiciary Act that provided an attorney general and The Supreme Court.
• 1789 – The United States Post Office Department, are established.
• 1841 – The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain.
• 1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) 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.
• 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.
• 1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
• 1928 – Major riot during a wharf strike in Port Adelaide involving up 4,000 waterside workers
• 1935 – Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
• 1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
• 1947 – The Majestic 12 committee is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman
• 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 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS
• 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 observed on Saturn
• 1992 – USA Networks launches the Sci Fi Channel
• 1994 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
• 1996 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
• 2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.

Births

• 15 – Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
• 1301 – Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
• 1501 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (d. 1576)
• 1513 – Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1535)
• 1534 – Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
• 1564 – William Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)
• 1583 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
• 1625 – Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
• 1705 – Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
• 1717 – Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (d. 1797)
• 1725 – Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
• 1739 – Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
• 1755 – John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1835)
• 1801 – Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
• 1802 – Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
• 1817 – Ramón de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
• 1829 – Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
• 1858 – Eugene Foss, 45^th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1939)
• 1870 – Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor (d. 1960)
• 1871 – Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
• 1878 – C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
• 1880 – Sarah Knauss, Oldest lived American ever (d. 1999)
• 1884 – Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
• 1884 – Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
• 1890 – Mike González, baseball player (d. 1977)
• 1890 – A. P. Herbert, British humorist, barrister, novelist (d. 1971)
• 1892 – Adélard Godbout, premier of Québec (d. 1956)
• 1894 – Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
• 1895 – André Frédéric Cournand, French Nobel Laureate (d. 1988)
• 1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
• 1898 – Howard Walter Florey, Nobel Laureate (d. 1968)
• 1899 – Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
• 1900 – Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
• 1902 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian Islamic religious leader and politician (d. 1989)
• 1905 – Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
• 1906 – Leonard Marsh, Canadian social scientist and professor (d. 1982)
• 1909 – Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
• 1910 – Jean Servais, Belgian actor (d. 1976)
• 1911 – Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1913 – Herb Jeffries, American jazz singer
• 1914 – Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
• 1918 – Audra Lindley, American actress (d. 1997)
• 1919 – Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Richard Bong, American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)
• 1921 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster (d. 2008)
• 1922 – Cornell MacNeil, American baritone
• 1923 – Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1923 – Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
• 1924 – Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
• 1924 – Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1924 – Sheila MacRae, singer & actress
• 1925 – Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
• 1929 – Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
• 1930 – Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (d. 1998)
• 1930 – Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
• 1930 – John W. Young, American astronaut
• 1931 – Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (d. 1999)
• 1931 – Mike Parkes, British Formula One driver (d. 1977)
• 1932 – Dominique Michel, Canadian comedian
• 1933 – Raffaele Cardinal Farina, Archivist of the Holy Roman Church
• 1934 – Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
• 1934 – John Brunner, British author (d. 1995)
• 1934 – Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
• 1935 – Sean McCann, Canadian actor
• 1936 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
• 1940 – Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994)
• 1941 – Linda McCartney, American singer, fashion designer and photographer (d. 1998)
• 1941 – John Mackey, football player
• 1942 – Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
• 1942 – Gerry Marsden, English singer (Gerry & The Pacemakers)
• 1944 – Diana Körner, German actress
• 1945 – Lou Dobbs, American journalist and television anchor
• 1946 – "Mean" Joe Greene, American football player
• 1946 – Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
• 1947 – Erik Hivju, Norwegian actor
• 1948 – Gordon Clapp, American actor
• 1948 – Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (d. 1998)
• 1950 – Alan Colmes, American talk show host
• 1950 – Mohinder Amarnath, Indian cricketer
• 1950 – Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
• 1951 – Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish filmmaker
• 1951 – Douglas Kmiec, American legal scholar
• 1952 – Mark Sandman, American musician (d. 1999)
• 1955 – Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
• 1956 – Hubie Brooks, American baseball player
• 1957 – Wolfgang Wolf, German footballer and manager
• 1957 – Tod Howarth, American rock musician
• 1958 – Kevin Sorbo, American actor
• 1959 – Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
• 1961 – Allen Bestwick, Nascar broadcaster
• 1961 – John Logan, American screenwriter
• 1962 – Jack Dee, British comedian
• 1962 – Rosamund Kwan, Hong Kong actress
• 1962 – Ally McCoist, Scottish footballer
• 1962 – Mike Phelan, English footballer
• 1962 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
• 1964 – Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born baseball player
• 1965 – Sean McNabb, American bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords)
• 1965 – Janet Weiss, American drummer (Sleater-Kinney, Quasi, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks)
• 1966 – Stacy Galina, American actress
• 1966 – Bernard Gilkey, American baseball player
• 1966 – Michael J. Varhola, American author
• 1969 – Shawn Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
• 1969 – Shamim Sarif, English novelist and filmmaker
• 1969 – Paul Ray Smith, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 2003)
• 1969 – DeVante Swing, American music producer
• 1969 – Goya Toledo, Spanish actress and model
• 1969 – Megan Ward, American actress
• 1971 – Michael S. Engel, American paleontologist and entomologist
• 1971 – Mike Michalowicz, American author and entrepreneur
• 1971 – Kevin Millar, American baseball player
• 1971 – Peter Salisbury, English drummer (The Verve)
• 1973 – Eddie George, American football player
• 1973 – Rodrick Rhodes, American basketball player
• 1974 – John McDonald, American baseball player
• 1975 – Mike Gallay, Canadian comedian and filmmaker
• 1975 – Kyle Turley, American football player
• 1976 – Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
• 1976 – Stephanie McMahon, American professional wrestler
• 1977 – Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer
• 1978 – Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
• 1979 – Fábio Aurélio, Brazilian footballer
• 1979 – Justin Bruening, American actor
• 1979 – Katja Kassin, German pornographic actress
• 1979 – Kim Jong Min, Korean singer
• 1979 – Jenny Platt, English Actress
• 1979 – Ross Mathews, American television personality and comedian
• 1980 – Daniele Bennati, Italian road racing cyclist
• 1980 – Dean Canto, Australian racing driver
• 1980 – Sabrine Maui, Filipino pornographic actress
• 1980 – Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
• 1980 – John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
• 1981 – Ryan Briscoe, Australian racing driver
• 1981 – Drew Gooden, American basketball player
• 1981 – Fernanda Urrejola, Chilean actress
• 1982 – Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
• 1982 – Paul Hamm, American gymnast
• 1982 – Jeff Karstens, American baseball player
• 1983 – Randy Foye, American basketball player
• 1984 – Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer
• 1985 – Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress
• 1986 – Leah Dizon, American model and singer
• 1987 – Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
• 1988 – Karl Alzner, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1988 – Kyle Sullivan, American actor

Deaths

• 366 – Pope Liberius
• 768 – Pippin the Short, King of the Franks (b. 714)
• 1054 – Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)
• 1120 – Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
• 1143 – Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1072)
• 1143 – Pope Innocent II
• 1180 – Manuel I Comnenus, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
• 1213 – Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)
• 1218 – Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
• 1275 – Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford, Constable of England (b. 1208)
• 1435 – Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of Charles VI of France (b. c.1370)
• 1494 – Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
• 1541 – Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b. 1493)
• 1545 – Albert of Mainz, archbishop and elector of Mainz (b. 1490)
• 1605 – Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (b. c.1547)
• 1621 – Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
• 1646 – Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (b. c.1565)
• 1707 – Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
• 1732 – Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
• 1742 – Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)
• 1802 – Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)
• 1834 – Pedro I of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil (b. 1798)
• 1892 – Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer (b. 1829)
• 1896 – Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
• 1904 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
• 1929 – Prince Mahidol of the Kingdom of Thailand (b. 1892)
• 1930 – William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
• 1933 – Mike Donlin, American baseball player (b. 1878)
• 1933 – Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
• 1938 – Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1939 – Carl Laemmle, German-born American film producer (b. 1867)
• 1945 – Hans Geiger, German physicist (b. 1882)
• 1948 – Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1950 – Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (b. 1863)
• 1954 – Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)
• 1962 – Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (b. 1887)
• 1975 – Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
• 1978 – Hasso von Manteuffel, German army general and politician (b. 1897)
• 1981 – Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1982 – Sarah Churchill, British actress and the daughter of Winston Churchill (b. 1914)
• 1984 – Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1991 – Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss), American children's writer (b. 1904)
• 1991 – Peter Bellamy, British folk singer (b. 1944)
• 1993 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
• 1993 – Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
• 1996 – Zeki Müren, Turkish musician (b. 1931)
• 1998 – Jeff Moss, American puppeteer (b. 1942)
• 2002 – Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
• 2002 – Mike Webster, American football player (b. 1952)
• 2003 – Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
• 2003 – Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2004 – Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
• 2005 – Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)
• 2006 – Michael Ferguson, Irish politician (b. 1953)
• 2008 – Mickey Vernon, American baseball player (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Susan Atkins, American murderer (b. 1948)

Holidays and observances

• Late Roman Empire – start of the indiction year (at least since the time of Bede).
• In ancient Latvia, the third day of Mikeli, and the only day of the year during which men proposed to their prospective wives.
• Catholic Calendar: Our Lady of Mercy and Our Lady of Walsingham.
• Also see September 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
• Guinea-Bissau – Independence Day (declared, from Portugal, 1973).
• New Caledonia – Territorial Day.
• England – Our Lady of Walsingham.
• South Africa – Heritage Day.
• Barcelona, Spain – La Mercè the festival for Barcelona's patron saint. A lot of art and musical activities.
• Trinidad and Tobago – Republic Day (1976).
• French Republican Calendar – Châtaigne (Chestnut) Day, third day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
• Kings Day – Celebrating Birthday of Rajadhiraja, Sriraj.
• Feast day of Rupert of Salzburg in the Roman Catholic Church, Holiday in Salzburg.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2003

Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli

• selected by Nanobug

2004

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. ~ William Penn

• selected by Kalki

2005

I wait . . . Wait for the mists and for the blacker rain — Heavier winds that stir the veil of fate, happier winds that pile her hair; Again they tear me, teach me, strew the heavy air upon me, winds that I know, and storm. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (born 24 September 1896, and correlation to the current period of powerful storms)

• selected by Kalki

2006

To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation. ~ Horace Walpole

• proposed by Kalki

2007

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

• proposed by Kalki

2008

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them. ~ John Brunner (born 24 September 1934)

• proposed by Ningauble

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

• There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • used 21 December 2008, proposed by UDScott

Suggestions

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will. ~ John Marshall

• 2 Zarbon 04:03, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:24, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 23:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ~ Horace Walpole (date of birth)

• 3 Kalki 19:58, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 00:36, 22 October 2006 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 05:34, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2.5 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." ~ John Brunner (born September 24, 1934)

• 3.5 ~ Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC) * 3 Ningauble 15:57, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is ... If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each...This is of the very essence of judicial duty. ~ John Marshall

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
• 2.5 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC) An important quote, but maybe not for this context

If a passion for freedom is not in vogue, patriots may sound the alarm till they are weary. The Act of Habeas Corpus, by which prisoners may insist on being brought to trial within a limited time, is the corner stone of our liberty. ~ Horace Walpole

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Men are often capable of greater things than they perform. They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent. ~ Horace Walpole

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, — at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first. ~ Horace Walpole

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 2.5 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald

• 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
• 3.5 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

If there is such a phenomenon as absolute evil, it consists in treating another human being as a thing. ~ John Brunner

• 3 Kalki 19:31, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

First you use machines, then you wear machines, and then ...? Then you serve machines. ~ John Brunner

• 3 Kalki 19:31, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC) rather downbeat for QotD

You have many years to live — do things you will be proud to remember when you're old. ~ John Brunner

• 3 Kalki 19:31, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
• 2.5 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC) Nice and pithy, but not very original (and little heeded by youth)

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Games released on September 24.

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From Familypedia

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

Events

• 622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
• 1664 - The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
• 1789 - The office of the Attorney General of the United States of America, and the United States Post Office Department are established.
• 1841 - The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain.
• 1852 - The first airship is displayed.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1903 - Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
• 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
• 1935 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia
• 1946 - Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong
• 1947 - Majestic 12 is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman
• 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, 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.
• 1988 - Summer Olympics: Ben Johnson beats Carl Lewis and Linford Christie in the 100 metres sprint in a record time of 9.79 seconds. (Johnson would later be disqualified in a high profile case of doping.)
• 1990 - Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
• 1994 - National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
• 1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
• 2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
• 2007 - Iranian Presidednt Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University.

Births

• 15 - Vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)
• 1301 - Ralph Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)
• 1501 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (d. 1576)
• 1513 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1535)
• 1534 - Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
• 1564 - William Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)
• 1583 - Albrecht von Wallenstein, Austrian general (d. 1634)
• 1625 - Johan de Witt, Dutch politician (d. 1672)
• 1705 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun, Austrian field marshal (d. 1766)
• 1717 - Horace Walpole, British novelist and politician (d. 1797)
• 1724 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer (d. 1803)
• 1739 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin, Russian statesman (d. 1791)
• 1755 - John Marshall, 4th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1835)
• 1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky, Ukrainian scientist (d. 1862)
• 1802 - Adolphe d'Archaic, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
• 1817 - Ramon de Campoamor y Campoosorio, Spanish poet and philosopher (d. 1901)
• 1829 - Charles S. West, Texas jurist and politician (d. 1885)
• 1857 - Richard Mansfield, German-born actor (d. 1907)
• 1870 - Georges Claude, French chemist and inventor (d. 1960)
• 1871 - Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
• 1878 - C. F. Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
• 1884 - Hugo Schmeisser, German weapons designer (d. 1953)
• 1884 - Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (d. 1963)
• 1890 - A. P. Herbert, British humorist, barrister, novelist (d. 1971)
• 1890 - Mike González, baseball player (d. 1977)
• 1892 - Adélard Godbout, premier of Québec (d. 1956)
• 1894 - Tommy Armour, Anglo-American golfer (d. 1968)
• 1895 - André Frédéric Cournand, French Nobel Laureate (d. 1988)
• 1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist (d. 1940)
• 1898 - Howard Walter Florey, Nobel Laureate (d. 1968)
• 1899 - Sir William Dobell, Australian portrait artist (d. 1970)
• 1900 - Ham Fisher, American cartoonist (d. 1955)
• 1905 - Severo Ochoa, Nobel Laureate (d. 1993)
• 1909 - Gerard Ciołek, Polish architect (d. 1966)
• 1910 - Jean Servais, Belgian actor (d. 1976)
• 1911 - Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet premier (d. 1985)
• 1912 - Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
• 1914 - Sir John Kerr, 18th Governor-General of Australia (d. 1991)
• 1918 - Audra Lindley, American actress (d. 1997)
• 1919 - Dayton Allen, American actor and comedian (d. 2004)
• 1921 - Jim McKay, American sports commentator
• 1922 - Theresa Merritt, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1922 - Cornell MacNeil, American baritone
• 1923 - Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1923 - Fats Navarro, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1950)
• 1924 - Nina Bocharova, Soviet gymnast
• 1924 - Sheila MacRae, singer & actress
• 1925 - Autar Singh Paintal, Indian medical scientist (d. 2004)
• 1927 - Alfredo Kraus, Spanish tenor (d. 1999)
• 1929 - Edward M. Lawson, Canadian politician
• 1930 - John W. Young, American astronaut
• 1930 - Angelo Muscat, Maltese actor (d. 1977)
• 1930 - Józef Krupiński, Polish poet (d. 1998)
• 1931 - Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (d. 1999)
• 1931 - Mike Parkes, British Formula One driver (d. 1977)
• 1932 - Dominique Michel, French Canadian comedian
• 1934 - Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
• 1934 - Tommy Anderson, Scottish footballer
• 1934 - John Brunner, British autor (d. 1995)
• 1935 - Sean McCann, Canadian actor
• 1936 - Jim Henson, American puppeteer (d. 1990)
• 1940 - Yves Navarre, French writer (d. 1994)
• 1941 - Linda McCartney, American singer (d. 1998)
• 1941 - John Mackey, National Football League player
• 1942 - Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen, Finnish singer
• 1942 - Gerry Marsden, English singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers)
• 1944 - Diana Körner, German actress
• 1945 - Lou Dobbs, American journalist
• 1946 - "Mean" Joe Greene, American football player
• 1946 - Lars Emil Johansen, Prime Minister of Greenland
• 1947 - Erik Hivju, Norwegian actor
• 1948 - Gordon Clapp, American actor
• 1948 - Phil Hartman, Canadian actor (d. 1998)
• 1948 - Heinz Chur, German composer
• 1950 - Alan Colmes, American talk show host
• 1950 - Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress
• 1952 - Mark Sandman, American musician (d. 1999)
• 1955 - Riccardo Illy, Italian politician
• 1956 - Hubie Brooks, Baseball player
• 1958 - Kevin Sorbo, American actor
• 1959 - Steve Whitmire, American voice actor
• 1961 - Allen Bestwick, Nascar broadcaster
• 1961 - John Logan, American screenwriter
• 1962 - Jack Dee, British comedian
• 1962 - Mike Phelan, English former footballer
• 1962 - Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress
• 1964 - Rafael Palmeiro, Cuban-born baseball player
• 1965 - Sean McNabb, American bassist (Quiet Riot, Great White, Rough Cutt, House of Lords)
• 1966 - Michael J. Varhola, American author
• 1966 - Bernard Gilkey, Baseball player
• 1966 - Stacy Galina, American actress
• 1969 - Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician (Slipknot)
• 1969 - Donald DeGrate, American music producer
• 1969 - Megan Ward, American actress
• 1969 - Goya Toledo, Spanish actress and model
• 1971 - Kevin Millar, American baseball player
• 1971 - Peter Salisbury, English drummer (The Verve)
• 1973 - Eddie George, American football player
• 1974 - John McDonald, American baseball player
• 1976 - Stephanie McMahon-Levesque, American professional wrestler
• 1976 - Carlos Almeida, Angolan basketball player
• 1977 - Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer
• 1978 - Wietse van Alten, Dutch archer
• 1978 - Tarek Saab, American TV show contestant
• 1979 - Jose Paulo Hardy, Web Designer
• 1979 - Katja Kassin, German pornographic actress
• 1979 - Fabio Aurelio, Brazilian footballer
• 1978 - Ross Matthews, American television personality and comedian
• 1980 - John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
• 1980 - Sabrine Maui, Filipino pornstar
• 1980 - Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
• 1980 - Dean Canto, Australian racing driver
• 1980 - Brian Lemon, Irish UFC Fighter
• 1980 - Daniele Bennati, Italian professional road racing cyclist
• 1981 - Ryan Briscoe, Australian racing driver
• 1982 - Morgan Hamm, American gymnast
• 1982 - Paul Hamm, American gymnast
• 1982 - Jeff Karstens, American baseball player
• 1983 - Randy Foye, American basketball player
• 1984 - Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer
• 1986 - Leah Dizon, model, singer and Japanese television
• 1987 - Matthew Connolly, English footballer
• 1987 - Spencer Treat Clark, American actor
• 1988 - Kyle Sullivan, American actor
• 1988 - Lisa Wang, American gymnast
• 1995 - Andy Shemelzman, American scholar

Deaths

• 366 - Pope Liberius
• 768 - Pippin the Short, King of the Franks (b. 714)
• 1054 - Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)
• 1118 - Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
• 1120 - Welf II (b. 1072)
• 1143 - Agnes of Germany, daughter of Henry IV (b. 1072)
• 1143 - Pope Innocent II
• 1180 - Manuel I Comnenus, Greek Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
• 1213 - Gertrude of Merania, wife of Andrew II of Hungary (murdered) (b. 1185)
• 1275 - Humphrey de Bohun, Constable of England (b. 1208)
• 1435 - Isabeau of Bavaria, wife of Charles VI of France (bc. 1370)
• 1494 - Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
• 1541 - Paracelsus, Swiss alchemist (b. 1493)
• 1545 - Albert of Mainz, archbishop and elector of Mainz (b. 1490)
• 1605 - Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (bc. 1547)
• 1621 - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, Polish military commander (b. 1560)
• 1646 - Duarte Lobo, Portuguese composer (bc. 1565)
• 1707 - Vicenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (b. 1642)
• 1732 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
• 1742 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)
• 1802 - Alexander Radishchev, Russian writer (b. 1749)
• 1834 - Pedro I of Brazil, Emperor of Brazil (b. 1798)
• 1896 - Louis De Geer, 1st Swedish Prime Minister (b. 1818)
• 1904 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1860)
• 1930 - William A. MacCorkle, Governor of West Virginia (b. 1857)
• 1933 - Mike Donlin, baseball player (b. 1878)
• 1933 - Alice Muriel Williamson, British novelist (b. 1869)
• 1938 - Lev Schnirelmann, Russian mathematician (b. 1900)
• 1939 - Carl Laemmle, German film producer (b. 1867)
• 1945 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (b. 1882)
• 1948 - Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1954 - Edward Pilgrim, British suicide hastened by bureaucracy (b. 1904)
• 1962 - Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (b. 1887)
• 1975 - Earle Cabell, Texas politician (b. 1906)
• 1981 - Patsy Kelly, American actress (b. 1910)
• 1982 - Sarah Churchill, British actress (b. 1914)
• 1984 - Neil Hamilton, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1991 - Theodore Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, American children's writer (b. 1904)
• 1991 - Peter Bellamy, folk singer (b. 1944)
• 1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
• 1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
• 2002 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (b. 1953)
• 2002 - Mike Webster, National Football League player (b. 1952)
• 2003 - Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (b. 1924)
• 2003 - Lyle Bettger, American actor (b. 1915)
• 2004 - Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
• 2005 - Tommy Bond, American actor (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances

• Late Roman Empire - start of the indiction year (at least since the time of Bede).
• In ancient Latvia, the third day of Mikeli, and the only day of the year during which men proposed to their prospective wives.
• Catholic Calendar: Our Lady of Mercy and Our Lady of Walsingham.
• Also see September 24.
• Guinea-Bissau - Independence Day (declared, from Portugal, 1973).
• New Caledonia - Territorial Day.
• England - Our Lady of Walsingham.
• South Africa - Heritage Day.
• Barcelona, Spain - La Mercè the festival for Barcelona's patron saint. A lot of art and musical activities.
• Trinidad and Tobago - Republic Day (1976).
• French Republican Calendar - Châtaigne (Chestnut) Day, third day in the Month of Vendémiaire.
• Kings Day - Celebrating Birthday of Rajadhiraja,Sriraj.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada