What are the important events that happened on September 24? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
September 24: Facts & Myths About This Day
September 24 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 11, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 479,760 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexacontaoctagon’ day.
Libra is the zodiac 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.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,295 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 24 Historical Events
- 1180 –Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
- 1674 –Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1979 –Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
- 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.
Who were born on September 24?
- 1534 –Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581)
- 1890 –Mike González, baseball player (d. 1977)
- 1918 –Audra Lindley, American actress (d. 1997)
- 1923 –Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1932 –Dominique Michel, Canadian comedian
- 1933 –Mel Taylor, American musician (The Ventures) (d. 1996)
- 1933 –Raffaele Farina, Archivist of the Roman Catholic Church and cardinal
- 1966 –Bernard Gilkey, American baseball player
- 1980 –Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer
- 1984 –Tyrone Maria, Curaçao footballer
Who died on September 24?
- 366 –Pope Liberius
- 1054 –Hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)
- 1218 –Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
- 1228 –Stefan Nemanjić, Serbian King (b. 1165)
- 1545 –Albert of Mainz, archbishop and elector of Mainz (b. 1490)
- 1933 –Mike Donlin, American baseball player (b. 1878)
- 1962 –Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (b. 1887)
- 1993 –Ian Stuart Donaldson, British musician (b. 1957)
- 1994 –Barry Bishop, American mountaineer (b. 1932)
- 1998 –Jeff Moss, American puppeteer (b. 1942)
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