24th September

September 24 is the 267th (two hundred and sixty-seventh) day of the year—the 268th (two hundred and sixty-eighth) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 98 days left to end the year.

Events

• 1493: Christopher Columbus begins his second expedition to America.
• 1664: In the United States, Peter Stuyvesant, governor of the Dutch colony of New Netherlands, surrenders the territory to a British naval fleet led by Colonel Richard Nicolls.
• 1789: In the United States Congress creates the Post Office.
• 1810: In the city of Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia), the Libertary Grill is performed against the Spanish Empire.
• 1810: in the Church of San Pedro and San Pablo (in San Fernando, Cadiz) the Courts of Cadiz are sworn.
• 1812: in the Campo de las Carreras (Tucumán) the Argentine forces, in charge of the lawyer and General Manuel Belgrano, beat the Spanish in the battle of Tucumán.
• 1821 (Saturday): in Tripoli (Greece)—in the framework of the Greek War of Independence—the second day of the Tripoli Massacre happens: from yesterday Friday until tomorrow Sunday 25 the Greek army tortures and murders 30,000 men, women and civilian children (the Turkish majority, and a minority of Jews).
• 1852: in France, Henri Giffard makes the first flight of airship. Travel 27 km between Paris and Trappes, 9 km/h.
• 1869: Black Friday happens in the United States: speculations about the price of gold cause panic on Wall Street.
• 1877: in Japan the battle of Shiroyama, the last battle of the Satsuma rebellion, in which 30,000 soldiers of the Japanese imperial army completely annihilate 500 samurai in command of Saigō Takamori.
• 1879: Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola returns to the cave of Altamira accompanied by his 8-year-old daughter at that time, Maria Sanz de Sautuola, in search of traces of human settlement, while he searches for his daughter on the ground in the cave paintings.
• 1882: in Barcelona the San Antonio Market is inaugurated (in Catalan) Mercat de Sant Antoni).
• 1928: in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the first groups (ómnibus) of the country are created. The first line runs from Plaza de Mayo to the Floresta neighborhood for 20 cents.
• 1935: Astronomer Eugène Joseph Delporte discovers the Aphrodite asteroid (1388).
• 1938: in Bolivia, President Germán Busch created the ninth department of Bolivia, called the department of Pando.
• 1944: In the framework of the Second World War, the Soviet army invades Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
• 1946: In India, Jawaharlal Nehru is appointed head of the interim Government.
• 1951: On the site of atomic testing in Semipalatinsk (Kazakhstan) the Soviet Union detonated its third atomic bomb (the thirteenth in human history).

Camp Nou stadium of the Barcelona Football Club.

• 1957: Elvis Presley publishes the simple "Jailhouse rock", soundtrack of the film Jailhouse Rock starring himself.

• 1957: in Barcelona (Spain) the Camp Nou, stadium of the Barcelona Football Club is inaugurated.
• 1960: In the United States, Dutch astronomers Cornelis Johannes van Houten (1920-2002) and his wife Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld (1921-2015) discovered the asteroid Anubis (1912).
• 1964: the first issue of La Familia Monster was transmitted (The Munsters), produced by the American CBS chain.
• 1968: 344 m underground, in the U12n.04 area of the Nevada Test Site, the United States detonates its 20 kiloton Hudson Seal atomic bomb. (In comparison, the Hiroshima bomb was 13 kt).
• 1973: Guinea-Bissau is independent of Portugal.
• 1976: Soviet astronomer Nikolai Stepanovich Chernykh discovered asteroid number 3158, Anga.
• 1982: In Mexico City, the National Museum of Popular Cultures is inaugurated.
• 1984: In the town of The Dalles (Oregón State), members of the Osho sect pollute with salmonella the salad bars of ten local restaurants (Osho's bioterrorist attack), in the following days 751 people will fall ill, but no deaths will occur.
• 1984: in Barcelona (Spain) the Museum of Barcelona Football Club is inaugurated.
• 1988: At the Seoul Olympic Games, Canadian Ben Johnson wins the 100-metre race, setting a world record (9.79 s).
• 1990: In Russia, the Supreme Soviet approves the change of the economy to the free market.
• 1990: Disc released Rust in Peace of the Megadeth band.
• 1990: Disc released The Razors Edge of the hard-rock band AC/DC.
• 1991: the Nevermind album of the Nirvana band is published.
• 1991: disc published Blood Sugar Sex Magik Red Hot Chili Peppers.
• 1994: in Oran, Algeria, a Muslim fanatic murders the singer Cheb Hasni (26) because he sang romantic raï music.
• 2006: In Spain, El hormiguero, one of the most successful programs in Spain, is broadcast for the first time.
• 2007: The first chapter of the television series in the United States airs The Big Bang Theory.
• 2013: made its premiere Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., the first television series of the Marvel Film Universe.
• 2015: In Saudi Arabia there is a stampede in Mecca that ends the lives of more than 700 people and leaves another 800 wounded.
• 2021: In Argentina, the president of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation is assumed by Minister Horacio Rosatti.

Births

• 15: Vitelio (Aulo Vitelio Germánico), Roman emperor (f. 69).
• 1418: Ana de Lusignan, aristocrat french (f. 1462).
• 1473: Jorge de Frundsberg, a German military and aristocrat (f. 1528).
• 1501: Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician (f. 1576).
• 1513: Catherine of Saxony-Lauemburg, Swedish queen (f. 1535).
• 1534: Guru Ram Das, a Pakistani religious, fourth of the ten gurus of Sikhism (f. 1581).
• 1550: Tang Xianzu, Chinese writer (f. 1616).
• 1562: Hercules I of Monaco, aristocrat Monegasque (f. 1604).
• 1564: William Adams, English navy and navigator (f. 1620).
• 1583: Albrecht von Wallenstein, military and political Bohemian (f. 1634).
• 1598: Giovanni Francesco Busenello, libretist and Italian poet (f. 1659).
• 1625: Johan de Witt, a German politician (f. 1672).
• 1657: Maria Anna Lindmayr, nun and German mist (f. 1726).
• 1667: Jean-Louis Lully, French musician (f. 1688).
• 1672: Giuseppe Accoramboni, Italian cardinal (f. 1747).
• 1705: Leopold Joseph von Daun, Austrian military and aristocrat (f. 1766).
• 1709: John Cleland, British novelist (f. 1789).
• 1717: Horace Walpole, a British politician and novelist (f. 1797).
• 1725: Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer, founder of the company Guiness (f. 1803).
• 1739: Grigori Potemkin, Russian statesman (f. 1791).
• 1750: Louisa of Brandenburg-Schwedt, German aristocrat (f. 1811).
• 1755: John Marshall, American statesman and jurist (f. 1835).
• 1796: Antoine-Louis Barye, French sculptor (f. 1875).
• 1801: Mikhail Ostrogradsky, Russian physicist and mathematician (f. 1861).
• 1802: Adolphe d'Archiac, paleontologist and French geologist (f. 1868).
• 1813: Gerardo Barrios, a Salvadoran military and politician (f. 1865).
• 1817: Ramón de Campoamor, Spanish poet (f. 1901).
• 1821: Cyprian Kamil Norwid, poet, playwright, painter and Polish sculptor (f. 1883).
• 1833: Carlos Navarro Rodrigo, Spanish journalist and politician (f. 1903).
• 1852: Mercedes de Velilla, Spanish poet (f. 1918).
• 1855: Federico Boyd, a Panamanian politician and president in 1910 (f. 1924).
• 1862: Julia López de Almeida, Brazilian writer and feminist (f. 1934).
• 1870: Georges Claude, French chemist and physicist, inventor of neon light (f. 1960).
• 1871: Lottie Dod, British sportsman (f. 1960).
• 1871: Florence Scovel Shinn, American artist and writer (f. 1940).
• 1874: Friedrich Ludwig Emil Diels, botanist, and German geobotanist (f. 1945).
• 1878: Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer (f. 1947).
• 1881: Oreste Bilancia, Italian theatrical and cinematographic actor (f. 1945).
• 1882: Louis Blanche, French theatre and film actor (f. 1960).
• 1884: Gustave Garrigou, French cyclist (f. 1963).
• 1884: Ismet Inonu, Turkish military and political (f. 1973).
• 1884: Ashlag, Rabbi and Polish Kabbalist (f. 1954).
• 1886: Edward Bach, British physician, creator of the alternative "medicine" through Bach flowers (f. 1936).
• 1886: Roberto Marcelino Ortiz, president of Argentina (f. 1942).
• 1889: César Ratti, an Argentine actor (f. 1944).
• 1890: A. P. Herbert, British writer and humorist (f. 1890).
• 1891: William F. Friedman, Russian-American cryptoanalist (f. 1969).
• 1892: Adélard Godbout, Canadian politician, Prime Minister of Quebec (f. 1956).
• 1893: Juan Pedro Garrahan, Argentine pediatrician (f. 1965).
• 1894: Billy Bletcher, actor, comedian and American voice actor (f. 1979).
• 1894: Francisco López de Goicoechea, Spanish politician (f. 1973).
• 1895: André Frédéric Cournand, a French physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1956 (f. 1988).
• 1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald, American writer (f. 1940).
• 1898: Robert D. Blue, American politician (f. 1989).
• 1898: Howard Walter Florey, Australian pharmacist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945 (f. 1968).
• 1899: David Hunt Linder, American botanist (f. 1946).
• 1900: Mecha Ortiz, an Argentine actress (f. 1987).
• 1902: Ruhollah Jomeiní, an Iranian political leader (f. 1989).
• 1903: James Edgar Dandy, British botanist (f. 1976).
• 1905: Severo Ochoa, Spanish biochemical, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1959 (f. 1993).
• 1906: Juan Modesto, militar y política español (f. 1969)
• 1907: Martin Marculeta, Spanish footballer (f. 1984).
• 1911: Konstantin Chernenko, Siberian politician, Soviet President (f. 1985).
• 1916: Anne-Marie Brunius, Swedish actress (f. 2002).
• 1916: Greer Skousen, Mexican basketball player (f. 1988).
• 1917: Otto Günsche, German SS officer (f. 2003).
• 1917: Abel Salazar, actor, screenwriter and Mexican producer (f. 1995).
• 1918: Mario Báncora, educator, engineer and physicist from Argentina (f. 2006).
• 1918: Richard Hoggart, British sociologist (f. 2014).
• 1918: Audra Lindley, American actress (f. 1997).
• 1922: Cornell MacNeil, American baritone (f. 2011).
• 1923: Lee Yuan-tsu, Chinese politician (f. 2017).
• 1924: Sergio Magaña, playwright and Mexican writer (f. 1990).
• 1925: Geoffrey Burbidge, British-American astrophysicist (f. 2010).
• 1926: Ricardo María Carles Gordó, Archbishop and Spanish Cardinal (f. 2013).
• 1928: Rene Lavand, Argentinian illusionist (f. 2015).
• 1929: Tilsa Tsuchiya, a Peruvian painter (f. 1984).
• 1930: John W. Young, American astronaut (f. 2018).
• 1931: Alberto Anchart, Argentine actor and comedian (f. 2011).
• 1931: Leopoldo Verona, Argentine actor (f. 2014).
• 1934: John Brunner, a British science fiction writer (f. 1995).
• 1936: Jim Henson, American producer and filmmaker, creator of the Muppets (f. 1990).
• 1939: Wayne Henderson, American musician, of the band The Crusaders (f. 2014).
• 1940: Amelita Baltar, singer of Argentine tangos.
• 1940: Yves Navarre, a French writer (f. 1994).
• 1941: Linda McCartney, American singer-songwriter, wife of beatle Paul McCartney (f. 1998).
• 1941: Italo Zilioli, Italian cyclist.
• 1942: Gerry Marsden, British singer, of the band Gerry " The Pacemakers.
• 1943: Antonio Tabucchi, Italian writer (f. 2012).
• 1947: Robert Holmes "R. H." Thomson, Canadian actor.
• 1948: Phil Hartman, Canadian actor and comedian (f. 1998).
• 1948: Jaume Sisa, Spanish musician.
• 1950: Kristina Wayborn, Swedish actress.
• 1951: Alfonso Portillo, Guatemalan politician, president between 2000 and 2004.
• 1954: Marco Tardelli, Italian footballer.
• 1955: Riccardo Illy, Italian politician.
• 1956: Juan Villoro, writer, translator, chronist and Mexican journalist.
• 1957: Tongo, Peruvian musician and politician.
• 1958: Kevin Sorbo, American actor.
• 1958: Elena Ochoa, a psychologist and a Spanish television presenter.
• 1959: Ana Mato, Spanish politics.
• 1960: Celso Jaque, Argentine governor.
• 1961: John Logan, American screenwriter.
• 1961: Elizabeth Vernaci, Argentine radio broadcaster.
• 1962: Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress.
• 1963: Adam Augusto López Hernández, Mexican politician.
• 1964: Alberto Albístegui, Spanish footballer.
• 1964: Ainhoa Arteta, Spanish soprano.
• 1964: Jeff Krosnoff, an American motor vehicle pilot (f. 1996).
• 1965: Sean McNabb, American drummer of the band Quiet Riot.
• 1966: Christophe Bouchut, a French motor racing pilot.
• 1969: Shawn Crahan, American band musician Slipknot.
• 1969: Goya Toledo, Spanish model and actress.
• 1970: Sylvia Poll, former Costa Rican swimmer.
• 1971: Peter Salisbury, British drummer, The Verve band.
• 1971: Carlos Maussa, Colombian boxer.
• 1972: Pierre Amine Gemayel, a Lebanese politician (f. 2006).
• 1972: Pablo Rago, Argentine actor.
• 1975: Sergio Múñiz, Spanish actor.
• 1976: Pedro Andreu, Spanish writer.
• 1976: Stephanie McMahon, American professional fighter.
• 1977: Frank Fahrenhorst, German footballer.
• 1979: Fabio Aurelio, Brazilian footballer.
• 1980: Daniele Bennati, Italian cyclist.
• 1980: Petri Pasanen, Finnish footballer.
• 1980: John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer.
• 1981: Simon Patterson, DJ and Irish trance music producer.
• 1982: Cristian Daniel Ledesma, Argentine footballer.
• 1984: Ismael González Núñez, a Spanish athlete (f. 2010).
• 1984: Klaudia Jans-Ignacik, Polish tennis player.
• 1985: Jessica Lucas, American actress.
• 1985: Jonathan Soriano, Spanish footballer.
• 1986: Lionel Bringuier, director of French orchestra.
• 1986: Leah Dizon, American model and singer.
• 1987: Matthew Connolly, British footballer.
• 1987: Spencer Treat Clark, American actor.
• 1988: Kyle Sullivan, American actor.
• 1989: Pia Wurtzbach, Philippine actress and queen.
• 1991: Oriol Romeu, Spanish footballer.
• 1991: Frank Nouble, British footballer.
• 1993: Kevin Ceccon, Italian motor racing pilot.
• 1993: Sonya Deville, American professional fighter.
• 1994: Guillermo Hassan, Argentine actor and singer.
• 2003: Joe Locke, British actor.
• 2007: Marjorie Bernardes, Brazilian actress.

Deaths

• 366: Liberius, Italian potato (n. 310).
• 768: Pipino el Breve, Frank King (n. 715).
• 1054: Hermann von Reichenau, a German Swedish composer (n. 1013).
• 1180: Manuel I Comneno, Byzantine emperor (n. 1118).
• 1230: Alfonso IX, king of Leon (n. 1171).
• 1494: Angelo Poliziano, Italian poet and humanist (n. 1454).
• 1541: Swiss paracelsus, physician and chemical (n. 1493).
• 1545: Albert of Brandenburg, German Archbishop (n. 1490).
• 1572: Tupac Amaru I, the murdered inca emperor, ancestor of Tupac Amaru II (n. 1545).
• 1605: Manuel Mendes, Portuguese composer (n. c. 1547).
• 1707: Vincenzo da Filicaja, Italian poet (n. 1642).
• 1732: Tennō, Japanese emperor (n. 1654).
• 1820: Pedro Aranaz, Spanish composer (n. 1740).
• 1834: Peter IV, Portuguese aristocrat, emperor of Brazil (n. 1798).
• 1852: Francisco Javier Castaños, Spanish general (n. 1758).
• 1865: Antonio Rosales, Mexican military who participated in the Battle of San Pedro defeating the French (n. 1822).
• 1874: Teófilo Ivanovski, Argentinian General (n. 1827).
• 1877: Saigō Takamori, the last samurai (n. 1828).
• 1890: Ezequiel Hurtado, militar y presidente colombiano (n. 1825).
• 1904: Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish doctor, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1903 (n. 1860).
• 1920: Carl Fabergé, Russian goldsmith and jeweler (n. 1846).
• 1924: Manuel Estrada Cabrera, Guatemalan politician, president of Guatemala between 1890 and 1920 (n. 1957).
• 1939: Carl Laemmle, German filmmaker (n. 1867).
• 1945: La Argentinita, Spanish flamenco dancer (n. 1898).
• 1949: Enrico Guazzoni, Italian filmmaker and screenwriter (n. 1876).
• 1953: Jacobo Fitz-James Stuart and Falcó, aristocrat Spaniard (n. 1878).
• 1953: Berthold Viertel, Austrian filmmaker (n. 1885).
• 1954: Constancio Vigil, Uruguayan writer (n. 1876).
• 1963: Mary Agnes Chase, botanical, illustrative and American acronym (n. 1869).
• 1967: Francesc Almela i Vives, writer and Spanish historian (n. 1903).
• 1967: Robert Hans van Gulik, Orientalist, diplomat, writer and musician of guqin (n. 1910).
• 1971: Schlitzie, a circus artist and an American or Mexican actor (n. 1901).
• 1973: Joshua de Castro, geographer, doctor, writer and Brazilian activist (n. 1908).
• 1976: Miguel Ángel García-Lomas, politician and Spanish architect (n. 1913).
• 1977: Piet Zwart, Dutch architect (n. 1885).
• 1981: Patsy Kelly, American actress (n. 1910).
• 1991: Dr. Seuss, British writer of children's stories (n. 1904).
• 1993: Ian Stuart, British neo-Nazi musician (n. 1957).
• 1994: Cheb Hasni, Algerian singer, murdered (n. 1968).
• 1998: Genrich Altshuller, Soviet engineer and writer (n. 1926).
• 1999: Juan Gallardo, Mexican singer and actor (n. 1940).
• 2004: Françoise Sagan, French writer (n. 1935).
• 2007: Odón Betanzos, journalist, poet, novelist and Spanish critic (n. 1925).
• 2010: Guennadi Yanáyev, Soviet politician (n. 1937).
• 2013: Sagadat Nurmambetov, Soviet military and Kazakh, Prime Minister of Defence of Kazakhstan (n. 1924)
• 2016: Bill Nunn, American actor (n. 1952).
• 2017: Gisèle Casadesus, French actress (n. 1914).
• 2021: Jorge Velasco Mackenzie, Ecuadorian writer (n. 1949).

Celebrations

• International Day of Research against Cancer
• Our Lady of the Mercedes Day
• Argentina
  • Collector's Day
• BoliviaBolivia
  • Anniversary of the Departments of Santa Cruz and Pando
• CambodiaCambodia:
  • Constitutional Day
• Guinea-BissauGuinea-Bisáu:
  • Independence Day
• New CaledoniaNew Caledonia:
  • New Caledonia Day
• Peru Peru:
  • Armed Forces Day
• South Africa:
  • Heritage Day
• Thailand:
  • Mahidol Day
• Trinidad and TobagoTrinidad and Tobago:
  • Day of the Republic

Catholic saints list

• San Anatolio de Milan, Bishop (II)
• Santos Andoquio, Tirso and Félix de Seaulieu, martyrs
• St. Rustic of Auvergne, Bishop (s. V)
• Saint Lupo of Lyon, Bishop (528)
• San Isarno de Marseille, abad (1043)
• San Gerardo Sagredo de Morisena, bishop and martyr (1046)
• Blessed Dalmacio Moner, priest (1341)
• Beatos Guillermo Spenser, and Roberto Hardesty, martyrs (1589)
• San Antonio González, priest and martyr (1637)
• Saint Severino, priest (1721)
• Blessed Antonio Martin Slomsek, Bishop (1862)
• Beata Columba Gabriel, Abbey and Founder (1926)
• Blessed José Raimundo Pascual Ferrer Botella, priest and martyr (1936)
• Blessed José María Ferrándiz Hernández, priest and martyr (1936)
• Beata Encarnación Gil Valls, virgin and martyr (1936)
• Blessed Joseph Raimundo Ferragud Girbés, martyr (1936)
• Our Lady of the Mercedes