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The24t o Septemberis 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 NouStadium inBarcelona
- 622- The ProphetMuhammad,founder oIslam,completes his Hijra (pilgrimage) fraeMeccataeMedinain present-daySaudi Arabie.
- 1724- TheParisStock Exchange opens.
- 1834- Daith oPedro I o Brazil.
- 1853-Frauncetaks control oNew Caledon.
- 1906- Devil's Tower inWyomingbecomes the first Naitional Monument o theUnitit States.
- 1948- The car companyHondais foondit.
- 1957- InBarcelona,theCamp NouStadium, hame oBarcelonaFitbaa Club, opens.
- 1968-Swazilandjyns theUnitit Naitions.
- 1973-Guinea-Bissauin Wast Africae declares unthirldom fraePortugal.
- 1993- Restoration oCambodie's monarchy.
- 2005-HurricaneRita hits theTexas-Louisianamairch, killin 100 fowk.
- 2008-Taro AsobecomesPrime meenisteroJapan.
- 2013-2013 Pakistan yirdquauk:AyirdquaukhitsBalochistan,Pakistan,killin 825, and creatin a temporary isle aff its coast.
- 2015- A stampede at theHajjpilgrimage inSaudi Arabiekills ower 700 fowk.
- 2016-Jeremy Corbyndefeats a challenge biOwen Smithtae his leadership o the BreetishLabour Pairty.
- 2017-GermanFederal Election:Angela Merkel'sCDU an CSUremains the lairgest pairty, but its vote drops tae 33%. TheSPDscores anly 21%. The richt-wingAlternative for Germanyenters theBundestagfor the first time.
- 2019- Aw 11 juidges at theSupreme Coort o the Unitit Kinrickdecide that the prorogation o pairlament biBoris Johnsonis unlawful, declarin it null an void.
- 2019- The Supreme Coort oSpainrules that the remains o GeneralFrancisco Francoshould be moved awa frae the Valley o the Fallen.
- 2019- TheDemocratslaunch impeachment proceedins agin US PresesDonald Trumpower a phone conversation in which he is said tae hae pressured Ukrainian PresesVolodymyr Zelenskytae investigate the son oJoe 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,Scottishnovellist(d.1914)
- 1880-Ismet Inonu,PresesoTurkey(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
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