September 24th

The September 24th is the 267e Jour of the Année (268e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 98 days before the end of the année.

Events

1 to 1900

1143 : Death of the Innocent pope II ( Gregorio Papareschi ), 164e pope of the Roman Catholic church.
1499 : Treaty of Basle marking independence de facto Swiss Cantons with respect to the Holy Germanic Roman Empire.
1513 :

the army Suisse attacks Dijon.
the Belgian city of Tournai goes to the English.

1688 : Beginning of the War of the League of Augsburg: Louis XIV is opposed to almost all Europe.
1853 : The France takes officially possession of the New Caledonia.
1874 : With Seville (Spain), alternate of Jose Sánchez del Campo known as “Cara Ancha”, Spanish Matador.
1899 : With Madrid (Spain), alternate of Ricardo Torres Reina known as “Bombita”, Spanish Matador.

XXe century

1941 :

the Général de Gaulle constitutes the French National committee and reorganizes the Conseil of defense of the Empire.
Entered according to Andre Diethelm like Police chief inside Free France.

1946 : Foundation of the Cathay Pacific Airways with Hong-Kong. It is today one of the best airline companies of the world.
1948 : First conference in London of representatives of the British colonies of Africa.
1953 : The first Film in Cinémascope is projected, " Tunique" , of H. Koster.
1958 : First victory obtained by a air-to-air Missile when a AIM-9 Sidewinder drawn by a F-86 Sabers Taiwan board cut down a Mig-15 popular Armée with release.
1966 : Crowd ransacks and sets fire to the embassy of Portugal with Léopoldville (Congo).
1973 :

Prolongation in the east until Creteil of the Line 8 of the Parisian subway.
the Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde (country of Africa) are proclaimed independent.

1980 : The Afghan men of the maquis affirm to have killed 1.500 Soviet soldiers in one month of engagements.
1982 : In front of the extent of criticisms directed against his government, Israeli the Prime Minister Menahem Begin orders a judicial enquiry into the massacres in the Palestinian camps of Sabra and Chatila in Beirut.
1990 : The price of the Baril of Pétrole exceeds the course symbolic system of 40 dollars.
1991 : Signature under the aegis of UNO of an agreement between the Salvadorian government and the guerilla putting thus fine at the civil war which made 75.000 died in eleven years.
1996 : Israel makes bore an underground tunnel with Jerusalem passing along the Wailing Wall and the Esplanade of the mosques, causing violent one confrontations between Israeli Palestinians and soldiers.
1997 : Agreement with Belfast between the Sinn Féin, the political wing of the Irish Republican Army, and the leaders of the unionistic Left Ulster (UUP), political main movement protesting of Northern Ireland, to start the first basic multi-party negotiations on the future of the province.
1998 : The passage of the Ouragan George in the the Caribbean makes more than 400 dead.
2000 : The duration of the presidential mandate passes from 7 to 5 years in France.

XXIe century

2001 : Nearly 40 years after the end of the War of Algeria, the president Jacques Chirac recognizes for the first time that France had a " debt of honneur" with respect to the Moslems who fought in the French Army between 1954 and 1962.
2003: For the first time in the Israeli air force, 27 pilots, considered as the elite of the country, refuse to operate in the Palestinian territories, judging “illegal” and “immoral” to risk the life of “innocent civilians” at the time of strike aiming at alleged terrorists.
2004 : The French Richard Virenque, seven times holder of the shirt of better climbing of the Tour de France, puts an end to his career cyclist.
2005 :

the Israeli army buckles the the West Bank and the Gaza Strip following rocket fires from Gaza.
Accompanied by pouring rain and winds of almost 200km/h, the Ouragan Rita falls down on Texas and Louisiana, causing fires and flooding coastal towns in Louisiana.

Births

15: Vitellius, Roman Emperor († December 22nd 69).
1717 : Horace Walpole, British politician .
1801 : Mikhail Vasilevich Ostrogradski, Ukrainian mathematician († January 1st 1862).
1802 : Adolphe d' Archiac, geologist and paleontologist French.
1844 : max Noether, German mathematician.
1870 : Georges Claude, physicist, chemist and the inventor of lighting to the Neon.
1892 : Adélard Godbout ex - liberal Prime Minister of the Quebec.
1896 :

Francis Scott Fitzgerald, American writer.
Edward Bach, British doctor .

1905 : Howard Hughes, industrialist, aviator and producer of cinema. († April 2nd 1976).
1911 : Konstantin Tchernenko, Soviet politician († March 10th 1985).
1923 : Xavier Deniau, French politician.
1930 : John Young, American astronaut.
1934 : John Brunner, British writer of Science fiction.
1940 : Yves Navarre, French writer, Price Goncourt 1980. († January 24th 1994).
1942 : Linda McCartney (born Linda Eastman ), wife of Paul McCartney and clavierist († April 17th 1998).
1978 : Miguel Abellán, Spanish Matador .
1980 : John Riise, Norwegian footballer
1986: Lionel Bringuier, international violoncellist and French leader.

Death

768: Pip III known as the brief (v. 715 - 768), mayor of the palate of Burgundy (741), mayor of the palate of Neustrie (741), mayor of the palate of Austrasie (747), king of the Francs (751).
1143 : Innocent II ( Gregorio Papareschi ), 164 E pope of the Roman Catholic church.
1438 : Jacques II of Bourbon Goes it, count of Walk. (° 1370).
1537 : Jean Ruel, Doctor and Botanist French (° towards 1479).
1626 : Theophilus de Viau, poet and writer French
1715: Dom Pierre Pérignon, monk Benedictine (° January 16th 1639)
1877: Died with the combat of Takamori Saigō, the last Samurai
1969: Warren McCulloch, American researcher in neurology (° November 16th 1899)
1944: Aristide Maillol, sculptor French
1978: Paul-Jacques Bonzon, French writer (° 1908)
1980: John Henry " Bonzo" Bonham, English mythical beater resulting from the group Led Zeppelin
1984: Pierre Emmanuel, poet of Christian inspiration and academician French (° 1916)
2003: Gordon Jump, better known actor under the name of “Maytag Man”
2004: Francoise Sagan, écrivaine French
2004: Pierre de Hauteclocque resistant French.
2004 : Rajah Ramanna, Indian physicist
2006: Padmini, Indian actress . (° June 12th 1932).
2007 : Andre Gorz, French philosopher, cofounder of the Nouvel Observateur (° 1923)

Celebrations

Catholic and orthodoxe saints

Thècle d' Iconium or of Maaloula

Orthodoxe saints of the day

Silouane of Athos (+ 1938)

Saying of the day

“Morning with strong dew, thunder in end-of-day. ”

See too

September 24th in sport
September 24th in the railroads

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