Events on September 24 39
Year 1645
Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles.
Year 1780
Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
Year 1789
The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Year 1830
Belgian Revolution: A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
Year 1852
The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
Year 1853
Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
Year 1869
"Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
Year 1877
Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
Year 1906
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
Year 1911
His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
Year 1929
Jimmy Doolittle performs the first blind flight from Mitchel Field proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
Year 1932
Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
Year 1935
Earl and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi.
Year 1946
Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.
Year 1950
Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon is seen as far away as Europe.
Year 1957
President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
Year 1960
USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
Year 1972
Japan Airlines Flight 472, operated Douglas DC-8-53 landed at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.
Year 1975
Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on the Southwest Face expedition become the first persons to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces.
Year 1979
CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
Year 1996
Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
Year 2005
Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.
Year 2007
Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
Year 2009
The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of Long-Range Acoustic Devices in U.S. history.
Year 2013
A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing more than 327 people.
Year 2014
The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully inserted into orbit of Mars.
Year 2015
At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.