24 September

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 - 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

* 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
* 1143 - Pape Innocent II
* 1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
* 1541 - Paracelsus, Swiss polymath (b. 1493)
* 1834 - Pedro I o Brazil (b. 1798)
* 1904 - Niels Ryberg Finsen, Faroese medicinar (b. 1860)
* 1920 - Peter Carl Fabergé, Roushie jeweller (b. 1846)
* 1945 - Hans Geiger, German pheesicist (b. 1882)
* 1983 - Isobel Baillie, Scots soprano (b. 1895)
* 1991 - Dr. Seuss, American writer (b. 1904)
* 2018 - Jim Brogan, Scots fitbawer (b. 1944)

## Halidays

* Naitional Day o New Caledon
* Mahidol Day (Thailand)
* Independence Day (Guinea-Bissau)
* Armed Forces Day (Peru)