Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 24
This is a list of selected September 24 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.
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Flag of Guinea-Bissau
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Flag of Trinidad and Tobago
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Raja James Brooke of Sarawak -
Mecca
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Edmund Barton -
Camp Nou, Barcelona
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau (1973); | refimprove |
| 1664 – Second Anglo-Dutch War: The Netherlands surrendered to England New Amsterdam, a fortified settlement in the New Netherland colony that would later become New York City. | need to verify date, refimprove |
| 1789 – The First United States Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789, establishing the U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number of Supreme Court Justices. | unreferenced |
| 1841 – The Sultan of Brunei granted Sarawak to British adventurer James Brooke. | needs more footnotes |
| 1869 – Jay Gould, James Fisk and other speculators plotted but failed to control the gold market in the U.S., causing gold prices to plummet on "Black Friday". | refimprove |
| 1877 – The Imperial Japanese Army led by Kawamura Sumiyoshi defeated Saigō Takamori and the Satsuma clan samurai at the Battle of Shiroyama in Kagoshima, the decisive engagement of the Satsuma Rebellion. | needs more footnotes, lead too short |
| 1948 – Mechanic Soichiro Honda founded the Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and began manufacturing motorcycles, eventually turning his company into a billion-dollar multinational corporation. | refimprove, needs expansion; Soichiro Honda: refimprove |
| 1988 – Canadian Ben Johnson finished the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics in a world record time of 9.79 seconds, ahead of rivals Carl Lewis and Linford Christie, but was later disqualified for doping. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1645 – English Civil War: Royalists under the personal command of King Charles I suffered a significant defeat in the Battle of Rowton Heath.
- 1890 – Wilford Woodruff, President of the Mormon Church, wrote the first draft of a manifesto which officially disavowed the continuing practice of plural marriage.
- 1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, presented him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that would form the basis of the U.S. policy of containment.
- 1957 – Barcelona's Camp Nou (pictured), currently the largest stadium in Europe with a seating capacity of 99,354, opened.
- 1996 – Representatives from 71 nations signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which has not yet come into force because not enough signatories have ratified it.
September 24: Heritage Day in South Africa; Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago (1976)
- 622 – Muhammad and his followers completed their Hijra from Mecca to Medina to escape religious persecution.
- 1180 – The Byzantine Empire was weakened by the death of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (pictured).
- 1853 – Admiral Febvrier Despointes took formal possession of New Caledonia for France.
- 1903 – Alfred Deakin became the second Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding Edmund Barton who left office to become a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
- 1964 – The Warren Commission released its report, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of U.S. President John F. Kennedy.