On this day: 24 September

Years ago today

Events · 20

• 787(Julian date)
  Second Council of Nicaea — ecumenical council of the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic Church (787 AD)
• 1645
  Battle of Rowton Heath — aka Battle of Rowan Moor. Battle occurred on 09/24/1645 during the English Civil War.
• 1830
  Provisional Government of Belgium — government put in place during Belgian Revolution of 1830
• 1841
  Raj of Sarawak — 1841–1946 kingdom on northern Borneo
• 1869
  Black Friday — gold panic on 24 September 1869 caused by the efforts of two investors, Jay Gould and his partner James Fisk (the Gold Ring), to corner the gold market on the New York Gold Exchange
• 1877
  Battle of Shiroyama — 1877 last stand of the Samurai
• 1901
  Japanese concession of Chongqing
• 1906
  Devils Tower — mountain near Moorcroft, Wyoming, United States
• 1941
  Mogilev conference — 1941 German army conference
• 1945
  Topoľčany pogrom — roit in Topoľčany, Slovakia
• 1946
  Cathay Pacific — flag carrier of Hong Kong
• 1948
  Honda — manufacturer of automobiles, motorcycles, and power equipment
• 1959
  TAI Flight 307 — 1959 aviation accident
• 1972
  Japan Airlines Flight 472 (1972) — runway overrun
• 1975
  1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition — Himalayan ascent requiring rock climbing techniques
• 1993
  King of Cambodia — position and hereditary position in Cambodia
• 2009
  2009 G20 Pittsburgh summit — 3rd meeting of the G20, held in Pennsylvania, United States
• 2009
  Airlink Flight 8911 — 2009 aeroplane crash in Durban, South Africa
• 2013
  2013 Balochistan earthquakes — earthquake to the north-northeast of Awaran in Balochistan, Pakistan
• 2015
  2015 Mina stampede — Crowd crush incident

Births · 60

• 15(Julian date)
  Vitellius — eighth Roman Emperor (69)
• 936
  'Adud al-Dawla — Buyid dynasty emir (936-983)
• 1473(Julian date)
  Georg von Frundsberg — German noble
• 1501(Julian date)
  Gerolamo Cardano — Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer (1501-1576)
• 1534(Julian date)
  Guru Ram Das — guru of Sikhism
• 1564(Julian date)
  William Adams — English navigator who travelled to Japan
• 1583
  Albrecht von Wallenstein — Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years' War (1583-1634)
• 1625
  Johan de Witt — Grand Pensionary of Holland (1625–1672)
• 1705
  Leopold Joseph von Daun — Austrian marshal
• 1717
  Horace Walpole — English writer and politician (1717–1797)
• 1725
  Arthur Guinness — Irish brewer and the founder of the Guinness brewery business and family (1725–1803)
• 1755
  John Marshall — chief justice of the United States from 1801 to 1835, (1755-1835)
• 1795
  Antoine-Louis Barye — French sculptor (1795–1875)
• 1801
  Mikhail Ostrogradsky — Ukrainian mathematician (1801–1861)
• 1817
  Ramón de Campoamor — Spanish poet and playwright (1817–1901)
• 1871
  Lottie Dod — English tennis player (1871-1960)
• 1872
  Jaan Teemant — Estonian lawyer and politician (1872–1940)
• 1878
  Charles Ferdinand Ramuz — Swiss writer (1878-1947)
• 1880
  Sarah Knauss — American supercentenarian (1880–1999)
• 1884
  İsmet İnönü — 2nd President of the Republic of Turkey (1884–1973)
• 1884
  Gustave Garrigou — French racing cyclist (1884–1963)
• 1886
  Roberto Marcelino Ortiz — former President of Argentina (1886-1942)
• 1893
  Blind Lemon Jefferson — American blues singer and guitarist (1893–1929)
• 1895
  André Frédéric Cournand — French physiologist (1895–1988)
• 1896
  F. Scott Fitzgerald — American writer (1896–1940)

Deaths · 60

• 366(Julian date)
  Liberius — Head of the Catholic Church from 352 to 366
• 768(Julian date)
  Pepin the Short — King of the Franks from 751 to 768
• 1054(Julian date)
  Hermann of Reichenau — German 11th-century Benedictine monk
• 1120(Julian date)
  Welf II, Duke of Bavaria — Duke of Bavaria
• 1143(Julian date)
  Innocent II — Pope of the Catholic Church (1130–1143)
• 1143
  Agnes of Waiblingen — Duchess of Swabia
• 1180(Julian date)
  Manuel I Komnenos — Byzantine Emperor
• 1227(Julian date)
  Stefan the First-Crowned — King of Serbia
• 1230(Julian date)
  Alfonso IX of León — King of León and Galicia from 1188 to 1230
• 1435(Julian date)
  Isabeau of Bavaria — Queen Consort of France
• 1541(Julian date)
  — Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)
• 1545(Julian date)
  Albert of Mainz — German elector and cardinal (1490-1545)
• 1572(Julian date)
  Túpac Amaru — 4th and last Inca Emperor of the Kingdom of Vilcabamba
• 1621
  Jan Karol Chodkiewicz — army commander of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania (1560-1621)
• 1646
  Duarte Lobo — Portuguese composer
• 1655
  Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege — Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege
• 1707
  Vincenzo da Filicaja — poet from Italy (1642-1707)
• 1732
  Emperor Reigen — emperor of Japan
• 1802
  Alexander Radishchev — 18th century Russian author and social critic
• 1834
  Pedro I of Brazil — Emperor of Brazil from 1822 to 1831 and King of Portugal in 1826 (1798-1834)
• 1848
  Branwell Brontë — British artist (1817–1848)
• 1856
  Henry Hardinge, 1st Viscount Hardinge — British politician (1785-1856)
• 1877
  Saigō Takamori — samurai of the Satsuma domain, supreme commander of Japanese army, one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (1828-1877)
• 1889
  Daniel Harvey Hill — Confederate States Army general (1821–1889)
• 1896
  Louis de Geer the Elder — Swedish 19th century prime minister (1818–1896)