Historical Events In September - 24

1922  Neurenberg fusion congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky on this day in history.  

1922  On September - 24 cornell MacNeil, US, singer/actor (La Traviata)  

1923  Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin) on this day in history.  

1923  On September - 24 ladislav Fuks, writer  

1924  Boston, Massachusetts opens its airport on September - 24.  

1924  Jean-Pierre Warner, British high court judge on this day in history.  

1926  On this day in history cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4  

1927  NHL's Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs on September - 24.  

1927  On September - 24 nHL's Toronto St Patricks become Maple Leafs  

1927  On September - 24 richard Swift, composer  

1928  Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great," premieres in NYC on this day in history.  

1929  On September - 24 lieutenant James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle pilots a biplane over Mitchel Field in New York to make the first all-instrument flight.  

1929  On September - 24 lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the first all-instrument flight  

1929  On September - 24 lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in 1st all-instrument flight  

1929  George McNicol, principal (Aberdeen University) on September - 24.  

1930  G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY on September - 24.  

1931  On September - 24 round-robin playoff among NYC's 3 major league teams, to raise money for unemployed, concludes with Brooklyn losing to both Giants & Yanks  

1932  On September - 24 nY Gov Franklin D Roosevelt visits LA  

1934  On September - 24 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium  

1934  On September - 24 edwin Lehare, composer, dies at 69  

1935  Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi on September - 24.  

1938  On September - 24 alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title  

1939  Carl Laenmie, film producer, dies on September - 24.  

1940  On September - 24 the Cdn. Navy received 6 former US Navy "4 stackers" destroyers and renames them HMCS Annapolis, Columbia,Niagra, St. Clair ST. Croix and St. Francis  

1940  Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR on September - 24.  

1941  9 Allied govts pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter on this day in history.  

1941  On this day in history nine Allied governments pledge adherence to the common principles of policy set forth in the Atlantic Charter  

1942  On this day in history 3,000 Tuczyn Jews are killed after resisting and escaping a Nazi attack. Only 15 survive.  

1942  General Blamey assumes command of Allied Land Forces in New Guinea on September - 24.  

1942  On this day in history hMS SOMALI lost north of Iceland after being stuck by 1 torpedo from German U.703 on 20th in Greenland Sea.floundered while being towed by 'Ashanti', went down in bad weather, 45 men lost  

1943  Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk on September - 24.  

1946  On September - 24 yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs  

1948  On September - 24 mildred Gillars, charged with treason as Nazi radio propagandist Axis Sally, pleads innocent in Washington, DC.  

1948  Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Wash DC on September - 24.  

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0015  On September - 24 birth of vitellius, Roman Emperor (d. 69)  

1301  On this day in history birth of ralph Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford, English soldier (d. 1372)  

1501  Girolamo Cardano, Italy, mathematician/astrologer (Ars Magna-1545) was born on this day in history.  

1513  On this day in history birth of catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg, Queen of Sweden (d. 1535)  

1534  Guru Ram Das, fourth Sikh Guru (d. 1581) was born on this day in history.  

1564  On this day in history birth of william Adams, British navigator (d. 1620)  

1583  Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general was born on September - 24.  

1625  Johan de Witt, statesman/advisor of Holland was born on this day in history.  

0366  On this day in history liberius, Italian Pope (352-66), dies  

0768  Pippin III, the short, King of France, dies at 53 on this day in history.  

0786  Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies on this day in history.  

0911  On this day in history ludwig III, the child, last Carolingian German King (899-911), dies  

1054  On this day in history death of hermannus Contractus, scholar (b. 1013)  

1118  Death of Robert of Knaresborough, hermit (b. 1160) on this day in history.  

1120  Death of Welf II, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1072) on this day in history.  

1143  Innocent II, [Gregorio de' Papareschi], Ital Pope (1130-43), dies on September - 24.