The 24t o September is the 267t day o the year (268t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 98 days bidin.
Events
622 : Medina
1906 : Devil's Tower, Wyoming
1957 : Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona
622 - The Prophet Muhammad , founder o Islam , completes his Hijra (pilgrimage) frae Mecca tae Medina in present-day Saudi Arabie .
1724 - The Paris Stock Exchange opens.
1834 - Daith o Pedro I o Brazil .
1853 - Fraunce taks control o New Caledon .
1906 - Devil's Tower in Wyoming becomes the first Naitional Monument o the Unitit States .
1948 - The car company Honda is foondit.
1957 - In Barcelona , the Camp Nou Stadium, hame o Barcelona Fitbaa Club, opens.
1968 - Swaziland jyns the Unitit Naitions .
1973 - Guinea-Bissau in Wast Africae declares unthirldom frae Portugal .
1993 - Restoration o Cambodie 's monarchy.
2005 - Hurricane Rita hits the Texas -Louisiana mairch, killin 100 fowk.
2008 - Taro Aso becomes Prime meenister o Japan .
2013 - 2013 Pakistan yirdquauk : A yirdquauk hits Balochistan , Pakistan , killin 825, and creatin a temporary isle aff its coast.
2015 - A stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabie kills ower 700 fowk.
2016 - Jeremy Corbyn defeats a challenge bi Owen Smith tae his leadership o the Breetish Labour Pairty .
2017 - German Federal Election: Angela Merkel 's CDU an CSU remains the lairgest pairty, but its vote drops tae 33%. The SPD scores anly 21%. The richt-wing Alternative for Germany enters the Bundestag for the first time.
2019 - Aw 11 juidges at the Supreme Coort o the Unitit Kinrick decide that the prorogation o pairlament bi Boris Johnson is unlawful, declarin it null an void.
2019 - The Supreme Coort o Spain rules that the remains o General Francisco Franco should be moved awa frae the Valley o the Fallen.
2019 - The Democrats launch impeachment proceedins agin US Preses Donald Trump ower a phone conversation in which he is said tae hae pressured Ukrainian Preses Volodymyr Zelensky tae investigate the son o Joe Biden .
Births
Jim Henson
Ally McCoist
15 - Vitellius , Roman Emperor (d. 69 )
1501 - Gerolamo Cardano , Italian mathemateecian, pheesicist an astrologer (d. 1576 )
1717 - Horace Walpole , Inglis writer, historian an politeecian (d. 1797 )
1860 - Samuel Rutherford Crockett , Scottish novellist (d. 1914 )
1880 - Ismet Inonu , Preses o Turkey (d. 1973 )
1887 - Victor Hope, 2nt Marquess o Lithgae , Scots politeecian an colonial admeenistrator (d. 1952 )
1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald , American writer (d. 1940 )
1901 - David Carnegie, 11t Yerl o Northesk , Scots peer (d. 1963 )
1902 - Ruhollah Khomeini , Supreme Leader o Iran (d. 1989 )
1905 - Severo Ochoa , Spaingie scientist (d. 1993 )
1911 - Konstantin Chernenko , Soviet politeecian (d. 1985 )
1911 - Jimmy Smith , Scots fitbawer (d. 2005 )
1930 - John Young , American astronaut (d. 2018 )
1931 - Elizabeth Blackadder , Scots penter an prentmakker
1936 - Jim Henson , American puppeteer, director an filmmaker (d. 1990 )
1941 - Linda McCartney , American photographer, muisicker an activist (d. 1998 )
1948 - Phil Hartman , Canadian actor (d. 1998 )
1954 - Marco Tardelli , Italian fitbawer
1958 - Murdo MacLeod , Scots fitbawer
1962 - Ally McCoist , Scots fitbawer
1962 - Nia Vardalos , Canadian actress
1970 - Gary McSwegan , Scots fitbawer
1971 - Craig Burley , Scots fitbawer
1980 - Dougie Hall , Scots rugby union player
1980 - John Arne Riise , Norwegian fitbawer
1988 - Birgit Sarrap , Estonie sangster
1992 - Jack Sock , American tennis player
Daiths
Halidays