SomeFacts | September 24

On this day - September 24

787 — The Second Council of Nicaea begins at the Church of Holy ...

1568 — Spanish naval forces defeat an English fleet, under the ...

1645 — The Battle of Rowton Heath in England occurs, ending in a ...

1674 — Second Tantrik Coronation of Shivaji.

1789 — The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating ...

1830 — A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional ...

1841 — The Sultanate of Brunei cedes Sarawak to James Brooke.

1846 — Mexican–American War: General Zachary Taylor captures ...

1852 — The first powered, passenger-carrying airship, the Giffard ...

1853 — Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia ...

1869 — Black Friday (1869): Gold prices plummet after United States ...

1875 — The 1864 play Heath Cobblers by Aleksis Kivi premieres in ...

1877 — The Battle of Shiroyama is a decisive victory of the Imperial ...

1890 — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially ...

1906 — Racial tensions exacerbated by rumors lead to the Atlanta Race ...

1906 — U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in ...

1911 — His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid ...

1929 — Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, ...

1932 — Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, ...

1935 — Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held ...

1946 — The top-secret Clifford-Elsey Report on the Soviet Union is ...

1946 — Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.

1948 — The Honda Motor Company is founded.

1950 — The eastern United States is covered by a thick haze from the ...

1954 — The Cochabamba–Santa Cruz highway connecting western and ...

1954 — AEC Routemaster, the iconic London bus was introduced.

1957 — President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to ...

1959 — TAI Flight 307 crashes during takeoff from Bordeaux–Mérignac ...

1960 — USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered ...

1972 — Japan Airlines Flight 472 lands at Juhu Aerodrome instead of ...

1973 — Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.

1975 — Southwest Face expedition members become the first persons to ...

1993 — The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as ...

1996 — Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive ...

2005 — Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, ...

2007 — Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government ...

2008 — Thabo Mbeki resigns as president of South Africa.

2009 — South African Airlink Flight 8911 crashes near Durban ...

2009 — The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in ...

2013 — A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing ...

2014 — The Mars Orbiter Mission makes India the first Asian nation to ...

2015 — At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after ...

2023 — NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the ...