September 24 birthdays & history

Famous people born on September 24

• 1896F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer
• 1911Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician, General Secretary of the Communist Party and de facto leader of the USSR
• 1501Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physician, and astrologer
• 1898Howard Florey, Australian pharmacologist and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1905Severo Ochoa, Spanish–American physician and biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1936Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer, and screenwriter, created The Muppets
• 1980John Arne Riise, Norwegian footballer
• 1930John W. Young, American captain, engineer, and astronaut
• 1895André Frédéric Cournand, French physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1878Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss author and poet

What happened on September 24

• 1789The Judiciary Act of 1789 was signed into law, establishing the U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number of Supreme Court justices at six.
• 1830A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
• 1841Raja Muda Hashim, the uncle of Omar Ali Saifuddin II, Sultan of Brunei, conceded land to the British adventurer James Brooke to establish the Raj of Sarawak.
• 1852The first powered, passenger-carrying airship, the Giffard dirigible, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
• 1869Jay Gould, James Fisk, and other speculators plotted but failed to control the United States gold market, causing prices to plummet.
• 1875The 1864 play Heath Cobblers by Aleksis Kivi premieres in Oulu, Finland.
• 1903Alfred Deakin became the second Australian prime minister, succeeding Edmund Barton, who left office to become a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
• 1929Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight without a window, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.
• 1932Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
• 1975Dougal 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.
• 1993Norodom Sihanouk became King of Cambodia with the restoration of the monarchy after a 23-year interregnum.
• 2019The 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.

Also observed on September 24

• Armed Forces Day (Peru)
• Constitution Day (Cambodia)
• Heritage Day (South Africa)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Guinea-Bissau from Portugal in 1973.
• Mahidol Day (Thailand)
• New Caledonia Day (New Caledonia)