On this day in History - Sep. 24

0015 - Vitellius was born (d. 0069). Roman Emperor.
• 0366 - Pope Liberius dies.
• 0622 - Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
• 0768 - Pippin the Short dies (b. 0714). King of the Franks.
• 1054 - Hermannus Contractus dies (b. 1013). Learned monk, scholar.
• 1118 - Robert of Knaresborough dies (b. 1160). Hermit.
• 1120 - Welf II, Duke of Bavaria dies (b. 1072).
• 1143 - Agnes of Germany dies (b. 1072). Daughter of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1143 - Pope Innocent II dies.
• 1180 - Manuel I Comnenus dies (b. 1118). Byzantine Emperor.
• 1213 - Gertrude of Merania dies murdered (b. 1185). Wife of Andrew II of Hungary.
• 1275 - Humphrey de Bohun, 2nd Earl of Hereford dies (b. 1208). Constable of England.
• 1301 - Ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford was born (d. 1372). English soldier.
• 1435 - Isabeau of Bavaria dies (b. c. 1370). Wife of Charles VI of France.
• 1493 - Christopher Columbus departs on his second expedition to the New World.
• 1494 - Poliziano dies (b. 1454). Italian humanist.
• 1501 - Gerolamo Cardano was born (d. 1576). Italian mathematician.
• 1513 - Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg was born (d. 1535). Queen of Sweden.
• 1534 - Guru Ram Das was born (d. 1581). Fourth Sikh Guru.
• 1541 - Paracelsus dies (b. 1493). German alchemist.
• 1545 - Albert of Mainz dies (b. 1490). Archbishop and elector of Mainz.
• 1564 - William Adams was born (d. 1620). British navigator and samurai.
• 1572 - Tupac Amaru dies. Leader Inca.
• 1583 - Albrecht von Wallenstein was born (d. 1634). Austrian general.
• 1605 - Manuel Mendes dies (b. c. 1547). Portuguese composer.
• 1621 - Jan Karol Chodkiewicz dies (b. 1560). Polish military commander.
• 1625 - Johan de Witt was born (d. 1672). Dutch politician.
• 1646 - Duarte Lobo dies (b. c. 1545). Portuguese composer.
• 1664 - The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
• 1705 - Leopold Josef Graf Daun was born (d. 1766). Austrian field marshal.
• 1707 - Vicenzo da Filicaja dies (b. 1642). Italian poet.
• 1717 - Horace Walpole was born (d. 1797). British novelist and politician.
• 1725 - Sir Arthur Guinness was born (d. 1803). Founder of Arthur Guinness Son & Co.
• 1732 - Emperor Reigen of Japan dies (b. 1654).
• 1739 - Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin was born (d. 1791). Russian statesman.
• 1742 - Johann Matthias Hase dies (b. 1684). German scientist.
• 1755 - John Marshall was born (d. 1835). Chief Justice of the United States.
• 1789 - The office of the Attorney General of the United States of America, and the United States Post Office Department are established.
• 1801 - Mikhail Vasilievich Ostrogradsky was born (d. 1862). Ukrainian scientist.
• 1802 - Adolphe d'Archaic was born (d. 1868). French paleontologist and geologist.
• 1802 - Alexander Radishchev dies (b. 1749). Russian writer.
• 1817 - Ramon de Campoamor y Campoosorio was born (d. 1901). Spanish poet and philosopher.
• 1829 - Charles S. West was born (d. 1885). Texas jurist and politician.
• 1834 - Pedro IV of Portugal (Pedro I of Brazil) dies (b. 1798). King of Portugal and Emperor of Brazil.
• 1841 - The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain.
• 1852 - The first airship is displayed.
• 1857 - Richard Mansfield was born (d. 1907). German-born actor.
• 1858 - Eugene Foss was born (d. 1939). 45th Governor of Massachusetts.
• 1862 - Júlia Valentim da Silveira Lopes de Almeida was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. 30 May 1934). Brazilian writer and abolicionist.
• 1869 - "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet as Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
• 1870 - Georges Claude was born (d. 1960). French chemist and inventor.
• 1871 - Lottie Dod was born (d. 1960). English athlete.
• 1877 - Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
• 1878 - C. F. Ramuz was born (d. 1947). Swiss writer.
• 1884 - Hugo Schmeisser was born (d. 1953). German weapons designer.
• 1884 - Gustave Garrigou was born (d. 1963). French cyclist.
• 1890 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
• 1890 - A. P. Herbert was born (d. 1971). British humorist, barrister, novelist.
• 1890 - Mike González was bron (d. 1977). Baseball player.
• 1892 - Adélard Godbout was born (d. 1956). Premier of Québec.
• 1894 - Tommy Armour was born (d. 1968). Anglo-American golfer.
• 1895 - André Frédéric Cournand was born (d. 1988). French Nobel Laureate.
• 1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald was born (d. 1940). American novelist.
• 1896 - Louis De Geer dies (b. 1818). 1st Swedish Prime Minister.
• 1898 - Howard Walter Florey was born (d. 1968). Australian scientist, who shared the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1945 with Ernst Boris Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for his role in the extraction of penicillin.
• 1899 - Sir William Dobell was born (d. 1970). Australian portrait artist.
• 1900 - Ham Fisher was born (d. 1955). American cartoonist.
• 1902 - Ruhollah Khomeini was born (d. 1989). Iranian politician, religious figure, and political leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution.
• 1903 - Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeded by Alfred Deakin.
• 1904 - Niels Ryberg Finsen dies (b. 1860). Danish physician. Nobel Prize in Medicine.
• 1905 - Severo Ochoa was born (d. 1993). Spanish–American biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1959.
• 1906 - U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower the nation's first National Monument.
• 1908 - The first Ford Model T is built.
• 1909 - Gerard Ciołek was born (d. 1966). Polish architect.
• 1910 - Jean Servais was born (d. 1976). Belgian actor.
• 1911 - Konstantin Chernenko was born (d. 1985). Soviet premier.
• 1912 - Don Porter was born (d. 1997). American actor.
• 1914 - Sir John Kerr was born (d. 1991). 18th Governor-General of Australia.
• 1918 - Audra Lindley was born (d. 1997). American actress.
• 1919 - Dayton Allen was born (d. 2004). American actor and comedian.
• 1920 - Richard Bong was born (d. 1945). American ace fighter pilot and Medal of Honor recipient.
• 1921 - Jim McKay was born (d. 2008). American sportscaster.
• 1922 - Cornell MacNeil was born. American baritone.
• 1922 - Theresa Merritt was born (d. 1998). American actress.
• 1923 - Louis Edmonds was born (d. 2001). American actor.
• 1923 - Fats Navarro was born (d. 1950). American jazz trumpet player.
• 1924 - Nina Bocharova was born. Soviet gymnast.
• 1924 - Theresa Merritt was born (d. 1998). American actress.
• 1924 - Sheila MacRae was born. English singer and actress.
• 1925 - Autar Singh Paintal was born (d. 2004). Indian medical scientist.
• 1927 - Alfredo Kraus was born (d. 1999). Spanish tenor.
• 1929 - Edward M. Lawson was born. Canadian politician.
• 1930 - John W. Young was born. American astronaut.
• 1930 - Angelo Muscat was born (d. 1971). Maltese actor.
• 1930 - Jósef Krupinski was born (d. 1998). Polish poet.
• 1930 - William A. MacCorkle dies (b. 1857). Governor of West Virginia.
• 1931 - Anthony Newley was born (d. 1999). British actor, singer.
• 1931 - Mike Parkes was born (d. 1977). British Formula One driver.
• 1932 - Dominique Michel was born. French Canadian comedian.
• 1932 - Svetlana Beriosova was born (d. 10 Nov 1988). British ballerina.
• 1933 - Mike Donlin dies (b. 1878). American baseball player.
• 1933 - Alice Muriel Williamson dies (b. 1869). British novelist.
• 1934 - John Brunner was born (d. 1995). British autor.
• 1934 - Manfred Wörner was born (d. 1994). German politician and diplomat.
• 1934 - Tommy Anderson was born. Scottish footballer.
• 1935 - Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.
• 1935 - Sean McCann was born. Canadian actor.
• 1936 - Jim Henson was born (d. 1990). American puppeteer.
• 1938 - Lev Schnirelmann dies (b. 1900). Russian mathematician.
• 1939 - Carl Laemmle dies (b. 1867). German film producer.
• 1939 - José Maria Nicolau dies (b. 1908). Portuguese cyclist.
• 1940 - Baseball: Jimmie Foxx becomes the second member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Shibe Park in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1940 - Geraldo Coelho Vaz was born in Goiânia. Brazilian poet and writer.
• 1940 - Yves Navarre was born (d. 1994). French writer.
• 1941 - John Mackey was born. National Football League player.
• 1941 - Linda McCartney was born (d. 1998). American singer and animal rights activist.
• 1942 - Ilkka "Danny" Lipsanen was born. Finnish singer.
• 1942 - Gerry Marsden was born. English singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers).
• 1944 - II World War: Invasion of Checoslovaquia e Hungary by soviet army.
• 1944 - Diana Körner was born. German actress.
• 1945 - Hans Geiger dies (b. 1882). German physicist.
• 1945 - Lou Dobbs was born. American journalist.
• 1946 - Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
• 1946 - "Mean" Joe Greene was born. American football player.
• 1946 - Lars Emil Johansen was born. Prime Minister of Greenland.
• 1947 - Majestic 12 is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman
• 1947 - Erik Hivju was born. Norwegian actor.
• 1948 - The Honda Motor Company is founded.
• 1948 - Gordon Clapp was born. American actor.
• 1948 - Phil Hartman was born (d. 1998). Canadian actor.
• 1948 - Heinz Chur was born. German composer.
• 1948 - Warren William dies (b. 1894). American actor.
• 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.
• 1950 - Alan Colmes was born. American talk show host.
• 1950 - Kristina Wayborn was born. Swedish actress.
• 1950 - Mohinder Amarnath was born. Indian cricketer.
• 1951 - Douglas Kmiec was born. American legal scholar.
• 1951 - Pedro Almodóvar was born. Spanish movie director.
• 1952 - Mark Sandman was born (d. 1999). American musician.
• 1954 - Edward Pilgrim was born (d. 1904). British suicide hastened by bureaucracy.
• 1955 - Riccardo Illy was born. Italian politician.
• 1956 - Hubie Brooks was born. American baseball player.
• 1956 - José Maria Alves da Cunha dies. Portuguese actor.
• 1957 - Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
• 1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends United States National Guard troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
• 1958 - Kevin Sorbo was born. American actor.
• 1959 - Steve Whitmire was born. American voice actor.
• 1961 - The old Deutsche Opernhaus in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg returns to its newly rebuilt house as the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
• 1961 - Allen Bestwick was born. Nascar Broadcaster.
• 1961 - John Logan was born. American screenwriter.
• 1962 - United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
• 1962 - Nia Vardalos was born. Canadian actress, writer, and comedienne.
• 1962 - Jack Dee was born. British comedian.
• 1962 - Mike Phelan was born. English former footballer.
• 1962 - Rosamund Kwan was born. Hong Kong actress.
• 1962 - Charles Reisner dies (b. 1887). American silent actor and film director.
• 1964 - Rafael Palmeiro was born. Cuban-born baseball player.
• 1965 - Anders Limpar was born. Swedish football player.
• 1965 - Sean McNabb was born. American bassist.
• 1966 - Bernard Gilkey was born. Baseball player.
• 1966 - Stacy Galina was born. American actress.
• 1966 - Michael J. Varhola was born. American author.
• 1968 - Suazilândia is admited as member of United Nations.
• 1968 - No. 1 Billboard Pop Hit: «Hey Jude», The Beatles. The song is the biggest for the best-selling rock group of all time. It stays at No. 1 for nine weeks.
• 1969 - Donald DeGrate, Jr. was born. American music producer.
• 1969 - Shawn "Clown" Crahan was born. American musician (Slipknot).
• 1969 - Megan Ward was born. American actress.
• 1969 - Goya Toledo was born. Spanish-born Mexican actress and model.
• 1970 - Luna 16 landed in the Soviet Union after have been launched on Sep 20 toward the Moon and have collected a lunar soil sample.
• 1971 - Kevin Millar was born. American baseball player.
• 1971 - Michael S. Engel was born. American paleontologist & entomologist.
• 1971 - Peter Salisbury was born. English drummer (The Verve)
• 1973 - Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
• 1973 - Eddie George was born. American football player.
• 1974 - John McDonald was born. American baseball player.
• 1975 - Kyle Turley dies. Former National Football League offensive lineman.
• 1975 - Earle Cabell dies (b. 1906). Texas politician.
• 1976 - Carlos Almeida was born. Angolan basketball player.
• 1976 - Stephanie McMahon-Levesque was born. American professional wrestler.
• 1977 - Frank Fahrenhorst was born. German footballer.
• 1978 - Wietse van Alten was born. Dutch archer.
• 1978 - Tarek Saab was born. American TV show contestant.
• 1978 - Hasso von Manteuffel dies (b. 1897). German army general and politician.
• 1979 - Justin Bruening was born. American actor.
• 1979 - Fábio Aurélio was born. Brazilian footballer.
• 1979 - Katja Kassin was born. German pornographic actress.
• 1979 - Ross Mathews was born. American television personality and comedian.
• 1980 - John Arne Riise was born. Norwegian footballer.
• 1980 - Sabrine Maui was born. Filipino pornstar.
• 1980 - Daniele Bennati was born. Italian professional road racing cyclist.
• 1980 - Dean Canto was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1980 - Petri Pasanen was born. Finnish footballer.
• 1980 - Brian Lemon was born. Irish UFC Fighter.
• 1980 - John Bonham dies. British musician.
• 1981 - Drew Gooden was born. National Basketball Association player.
• 1981 - Ryan Briscoe was born. Australian racing driver.
• 1981 - Patsy Kelly dies (b. 1910). American actress.
• 1982 - Morgan Hamm was born. American gymnast.
• 1982 - Paul Hamm was born. American gymnast.
• 1982 - Jeff Karstens was born. American baseball player.
• 1982 - Sarah Churchill dies (b. 1914). British actress.
• 1983 - Randy Foye was born. American basketball player.
• 1984 - Szilvia Molnar was born. Swedish writer.
• 1984 - Neil Hamilton dies (b. 1899). American actor.
• 1985 - Portugal: Elevação de Castanheira do Ribatejo , Póvoa de Santa Iria e Vialonga a vila
• 1986 - Leah Dizon was born. American born Model, singer and TV personality in Japan.
• 1987 - Matthew Connolly was born. English footballer.
• 1987 - Spencer Treat Clark was born. American actor.
• 1987 - Matthew Connolly was born. English footballer.
• 1988 - 1988 Summer Olympics: Ben Johnson "defeated" Carl Lewis and Linford Christie in 100 metres sprinting in a record time of 9.79 seconds. (Johnson would later be disqualified in a high profile case of doping in sports).
• 1988 - "Don't Worry, Be Happy," by Bobby McFerrin, is the first a cappella song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
• 1988 - Karl Alzner was born. Canadian hockey player.
• 1988 - Kyle Sullivan was born. American actor.
• 1988 - Lisa Wang was born. American gymnast.
• 1990 - Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn.
• 1991 - American Rock Band Nirvana (band) releases Nevermind, their second album which propelled them to mega-stardom and highly-popularized alternative rock around the globe.
• 1991 - Red Hot Chili Peppers releases their ground breaking album Blood Sugar Sex Magik.
• 1991 - Dr. Seuss dies (b. 1904). American children's writer.
• 1991 - Peter Bellamy dies (b. 1944). English folk singer.
• 1991 - Theodor Geisel, aka Dr. Seuss, dies (b. 1904). American children's writer.
• 1993 - Brøderbund releases the computer game Myst.
• 1993 - Bruno Pontecorvo dies (b. 1913). Italian physicist.
• 1993 - Ian Stuart Donaldson dies (b. 1957). British musician.
• 1994 - National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various people to help fight against dictatorship of Myanmar.
• 1995 - Acordo firmado entre Israel e OLP que prevê a retirada das tropas israelenses da Cisjordânia (v. Acordo de Paz).
• 1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
• 1998 - Former Guns N' Roses drummer Steven Adler, 33, is sentenced to 150 days in jail for beating two women he dated and for violating his probation from an earlier domestic violence conviction.
• 2002 - Mike Webster dies (b. 1952). National Football League player.
• 2002 - Tim Rose dies in London of complications from surgery for intestinal cancer. Singer and songwriter.
• 2002 - Youssouf Togoïmi dies (b. 1953). Chadian rebel.
• 2003 - Edward Said dies (b. 1935). Palestinian-born literary critic.
• 2003 - Anthony Durante dies (b. 1967). American wrestler.
• 2003 - Lyle Bettger dies (b. 1915). American actor.
• 2003 - Mathew Jay, 24 years old, dies after falling from a seventh-story window. English singer and songwriter.
• 2003 - Rosalie Allen dies (b. 1924). American singer and disc jockey.
• 2004 - Escândalo do mensalão: Jornal do Brasil publica o artigo Miro denuncia propina no Congresso
• 2004 - Hurricane Ivan dissipates over Texas, and heads north into the plains.
• 2004 - Françoise Sagan dies (b. 1935). French writer.
• 2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
• 2005 - Teen Titans Series 5 Begins in the US (projected).
• 2005 - Tommy Bond dies (b. 1926). American actor.
• 2006 - World Heart Day.
• 2006 - Michael Ferguson dies (b. 1953). Irish polatition.
• 2007 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University.
• 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.
• Guinea-Bissau - Independence Day (declared, from Portugal, 1973).
• New Caledonia - Territorial Day.
• South Africa - Heritage Day.
• Trinidad and Tobago - Republic Day (1976).
• Kings Day - Celebrating Birthday of Rajadhiraja, Sriraj.
• Catholic Calendar: Our Lady of Mercy and Our Lady of Walsingham.
• England - Our Lady of Walsingham.
• Barcelona, Spain - La Mercè the festival for Barcelona's patron saint. A lot of art and musical activities.
• French Republican Calendar - Châtaigne (Chestnut) Day, third day in the Month of Vendémiaire.