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 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.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 11, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 29,311,200 minutes 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 ‘dihectahexacontaheptagon’ day.
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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 146 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 4,660 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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September 24 Historical Events
- 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.
- 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.
- 1948 –The Honda Motor Company is founded.
- 1973 –Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
- 1996 –Representatives of 71 nations sign 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.
- 2007 –Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
Who were born on September 24?
- 1802 –Adolphe d'Archiac, French paleontologist and geologist (d. 1868)
- 1871 –Lottie Dod, English athlete (d. 1960)
- 1912 –Don Porter, American actor (d. 1997)
- 1923 –Louis Edmonds, American actor (d. 2001)
- 1931 –Anthony Newley, British actor and singer (d. 1999)
- 1937 –Takis Loukanidis, Greek footballer
- 1948 –Gordon Clapp, American actor
- 1952 –Mark Sandman, American musician (d. 1999)
- 1962 –Rosamund Kwan, Hong Kong actress
- 1991 –Maximiliano Uggè, Italian footballer
Who died on September 24?
- 1120 –Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072)
- 1218 –Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160)
- 1228 –Stefan Nemanjić, Serbian King (b. 1165)
- 1494 –Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
- 1889 –Charles Leroux, American balloonist and parachutist (b. 1856)
- 1892 –Patrick Gilmore, Irish-American composer (b. 1829)
- 1945 –Hans Geiger, German physicist (b. 1882)
- 1991 –Peter Bellamy, British folk singer (b. 1944)
- 1993 –Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian physicist (b. 1913)
- 2006 –Michael Ferguson, Irish politician (b. 1953)
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