Events
622
– Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from
Mecca to Medina.
1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of
the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine
Empire slips 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
Amsterdam to 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.
1853 – Admiral Despointes formally takes
possession of New Caledonia in the name
of France.
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 the Satsuma
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.
1914 – World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl
(present-day Poland) begins.
1932 – Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree
to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats
in the Indian provincial legislatures for
the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
1935 – Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce
the first rodeo ever held outdoors under
electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
1937 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese
Eighth Route Army gains a minor, but morale-boosting
victory in the Battle of Pingxingguan.
1946 – Cathay Pacific Airways is founded
in Hong Kong.
1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey,
military advisers to U.S. President Harry
S. Truman, present him with a top-secret
report on the Soviet Union that first recommends
the containment policy.
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.
1960 – USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's
first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier,
is launched.
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 – Representatives of 71 nations sign
the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty
at the United Nations.
2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in
the United States, devastating Beaumont,
Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
2007 – Between 30,000 and 100,000 people
take part in anti-government protests in
Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
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
marks the first use of LRAD in U.S. history.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Gerard Sagredo
Our Lady of Mercy and its related observances:
La Mercè (Barcelona)
Our Lady of Walsingham (Church of England)
Rupert of Salzburg
September 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics).
Constitution Day (Cambodia)
Heritage Day (South Africa).
Independence Day, celebrates the independence
of Guinea-Bissau from Portugal in 1973.
Mahidol Day (Thailand)
New Caledonia Day (New Caledonia)
Peruvian Armed Forces Day (Peru)
Republic Day (Trinidad and Tobago)
Start of the indiction year (Late Roman
Empire; at least since the time of Bede)
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