September 24 - Events

Events

• 622 – Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra fromMecca to Medina.
• 1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empireslips 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 Amsterdamto 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 passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
• 1841 – The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
• 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 theSatsuma 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 1988 – National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
• 1990 – Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.
• 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, Texasand portions of southwestern Louisiana.
• 2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world's highest residence above ground-level.
• 2009 – The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It will be the first use of LRAD in U.S. history.