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
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  Mecca
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  Edmund Barton
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  HMA No. 1 wreckage
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  Alfred Deakin
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  Cathay Pacific Boeing 777
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  Camp Nou, Barcelona
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  Battle of Shiroyama
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  Battle of San Juan de Ulúa
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Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
Fast of Gedalia (Judaism, 2017);	unreferenced section
; Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago (1976)	refimprove
622 – Muhammad and his followers completed their Hegira from Mecca to Medina to escape religious persecution.	date contested; may have been July 2
1946 – Cathay Pacific, the de facto international flag carrier of Hong Kong, was founded by Roy Farrell and Sydney de Kantzow.	recentism, refimprove section
1948 – Mechanic Soichiro Honda founded the Honda Motor Co., Ltd. and began manufacturing motorcycles, eventually turning his company into a billion-dollar multinational corporation.	Honda: date not cited, refimprove section; Soichiro Honda: date not in article
1957 – Barcelona's Camp Nou, currently the largest stadium in Europe with a seating capacity of 99,354, opened.	unreferenced section
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
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.	refimprove section
2007 – During the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, the largest anti-government protests in 20 years took place in Yangon.	external links
Lottie Dod |b|1871|	unreferenced and refimprove sections

Eligible

• 1568 – At San Juan de Ulúa (present-day Veracruz, Mexico), a Spanish naval fleet forced English privateers to halt their trade (battle depicted).
• 1789 – The Judiciary Act of 1789 was signed into law, establishing the U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number of Supreme Court Justices at six.
• 1841 – Raja Muda Hashim, the uncle of Omar Ali Saifuddin II, Sultan of Brunei, conceded land to the British adventurer James Brooke (pictured) to establish the Raj of Sarawak.
• 1877 – At the Battle of Shiroyama (depicted), the final engagement of the Satsuma Rebellion, the Imperial Japanese Army defeated rebel samurai of the Satsuma Domain led by Saigō Takamori.
• 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.
• 1911 – His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, was wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
• 1945 – Dozens of Jews were injured in the Topoľčany pogrom, one of the worst episodes of anti-Jewish violence in postwar Czechoslovakia.
• 1950 – "The Great Smoke Pall", generated by the Chinchaga fire, the largest recorded fire in North American history, was first recorded in present-day Nunavut and may eventually have circled the entire globe.
• 1964 – The Warren Commission released its report to the U.S. president, concluding that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The report was made public three days later.
• 1975 – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott of the Southwest Face expedition became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces.
• 1992 – After his neighbor identified handwriting samples placed on local billboards by police, Oba Chandler was arrested three years after he committed a triple murder in the Tampa Bay area in Florida.
• 2019 – The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom unanimously ruled that advice given by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to Queen Elizabeth II that Parliament should be prorogued was unlawful.

• Born/died this day: | Gao Pian |d|887| 'Adud al-Dawla |b|936| Robert of Knaresborough |d|1218| Guru Ram Das |b|1534| Jan Karol Chodkiewicz |d|1621| Antoine-Louis Barye |b|1796| Edward Thomas Daniell |d|1842| Georges Claude |b|1870| F. Scott Fitzgerald |b|1896| Bessie Braddock |b|1899| John Young|b|1930| Linda McCartney |b|1941Bruno Pontecorvo |d|1993| Gennady Yanayev |d|2010

September 24: Heritage Day in South Africa; Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau (1973)

Norodom Sihanouk

• 1645 – English Civil War: Royalists commanded by King Charles I suffered a significant defeat at the Battle of Rowton Heath.
• 1869 – Jay Gould, James Fisk, and other speculators plotted but failed to control the United States gold market, causing prices to plummet.
• 1890 – Wilford Woodruff, the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto that officially disavowed the future practice of plural marriage.
• 1941 – Operation Barbarossa: A Wehrmacht training event known as the Mogilev Conference began, marking an increase in violence against Jews and other civilians in the areas under General Max von Schenckendorff's command.
• 1993 – Norodom Sihanouk (pictured) became King of Cambodia with the restoration of the monarchy after a 23-year interregnum.

• Pope Liberius (d. 366)
• Howard Florey (b. 1898)
• Esther Eng (b. 1914)
• Princess Victoria of Hesse and by Rhine (d. 1950)

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