Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 24
This is a list of selected September 24 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Flag of Guinea-Bissau
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Flag of Trinidad and Tobago
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Raja James Brooke of Sarawak
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Mecca
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Edmund Barton
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Camp Nou, Barcelona
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Alfred Deakin
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Cathay Pacific Boeing 777
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| 1664 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Netherlands surrendered New Amsterdam to England, a fortified settlement in the New Netherland colony that would later become New York City. | need to verify date, refimprove section |
| 1841 – The Sultan of Brunei granted Sarawak to British adventurer James Brooke. | needs more footnotes |
| 1869 – Jay Gould, James Fisk and other speculators plotted but failed to control the gold market in the U.S., causing gold prices to plummet on "Black Friday". | refimprove section |
| 1948 – Mechanic Soichiro Honda founded the Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and began manufacturing motorcycles, eventually turning his company into a billion-dollar multinational corporation. | Honda: date not cited; Soichiro Honda: date not in article |
Eligible
- 622 – Muhammad and his followers completed their Hegira from Mecca to Medina to escape religious persecution.
- 1789 – The First United States Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789, establishing the US federal judiciary and setting the number of Supreme Court Justices.
- 1890 – Wilford Woodruff, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto which officially disavowed the continuing practice of plural marriage.
- 1903 – Alfred Deakin became the second Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding Edmund Barton who left office to become a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
- 1946 – Cathay Pacific, the de facto international flag carrier airline of Hong Kong, was founded by Roy Farrell and Sydney de Kantzow.
- 1964 – The Warren Commission released its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy.
- 1957 – Barcelona's Camp Nou, currently the largest stadium in Europe with a seating capacity of 99,354, opened.
- 1975 – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on the Southwest Face expedition became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by a route going up any of its faces.
- 1988 – Canadian Ben Johnson finished the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics in a world record time of 9.79 seconds, ahead of rivals Carl Lewis and Linford Christie, but was later disqualified for doping.
- 1992 – Oba Chandler was arrested three years after he committed a triple murder in Tampa Bay, Florida, US, when his neighbor identified handwriting samples that police had placed on local billboards.
September 24: Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau (1973); Heritage Day in South Africa; Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago (1976)
- 1180 – The Byzantine Empire was weakened by the death of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
- 1877 – The Imperial Japanese Army defeated Saigō Takamori and the Satsuma clan samurai at the Battle of Shiroyama in Kagoshima, the decisive engagement of the Satsuma Rebellion.
- 1911 – His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, was wrecked (pictured) by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
- 1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to US President Harry S. Truman, presented him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that would form the basis of the US policy of containment.
- 1996 – Representatives from 71 nations signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which has not yet come into force because not enough signatories have ratified it.