September 24 in History

43 events 787 – 2023

September 24 spans 43 recorded events across recorded history — from 787 – 2023. Below is a curated digest of the most significant moments tied to this date.

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu succ

2023 — NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth

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The asteroid 101955 Bennu was discovered by the LINEAR Project on 11 September 1999.

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It is named after Bennu, the ancient Egyptian mythological bird associated with the Sun, creation, and rebirth.

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101955 Bennu has a cumulative chance of around 1-in-1,750 of impacting Earth between 2178 and 2290.

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The greatest risk of impact is predicted to be on 24 September 2182.

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The asteroid is classified as a potentially hazardous object and is listed on the Sentry Risk Table.


The Second Council of Nicaea begins at the Church of Holy Wisdom in the city of Nicaea in Bithynia.
Calendar year
Year 787 (DCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. The denomination 787 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.
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787
Spanish naval forces defeat an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near Veracruz.
Battle of the Anglo-Spanish War
The Battle of San Juan de Ulúa was fought between English privateers and Spanish forces at San Juan de Ulúa. The English flotilla of six armed merchant ships under John Hawkins had been trading along the Spanish Main with the cooperation of local Spanish officials. However the central Spanish authorities considered this to be illegal smuggling that violated the Treaty of Tordesillas.
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1568
The Battle of Rowton Heath in England occurs, ending in a Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles I.
1645 battle of the First English Civil War
The Battle of Rowton Heath, better known as the Battle of Rowton Moor, occurred on 24 September 1645 during the English Civil War. The Parliamentarians, commanded by Sydnam Poyntz, inflicted a significant defeat on the Royalists under the personal command of King Charles I, inflicting heavy losses and preventing Charles from relieving the siege of Chester.
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1645
Second Tantrik Coronation of Shivaji.
Chhatrapati of the Marathas from 1674 to 1680
Shivaji I was an Indian ruler and a member of the Bhonsle dynasty. Shivaji inherited a fiefdom from his father who served as a retainer for the Sultanate of Bijapur, which later formed the genesis of the Maratha Kingdom. In 1674, he was formally crowned the Chhatrapati of his realm at Raigad Fort.
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1674
The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.
US law establishing federal court system
The Judiciary Act of 1789 is a United States federal statute enacted on September 24, 1789, during the first session of the First United States Congress. It established the federal judiciary of the United States. Article III, Section 1 of the Constitution prescribed that the "judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and such inferior Courts" as Congress saw fit to establish. It made no provision for the composition or procedures of any of the courts, leaving this to Congress to decide.
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1789
A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
Government from September to November 1830
The Provisional Government was the first iteration of the Belgian state, formed in the midst of the Belgian Revolution. After Dutch forces were expelled from Brussels on 27 September 1830, the recently created Revolutionary Committee transformed into the Provisional Government. The independence of Belgium as a state was officially declared on 4 October.
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1830
The Sultanate of Brunei cedes Sarawak to James Brooke.
Malay sultanate centred in Brunei from 1368 to 1888
The Sultanate of Brunei or simply Brunei, also known as the Bruneian Empire, was a Malay sultanate centered around Brunei on the northern coast of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Brunei became a sovereign state around the 15th century, when it substantially expanded after the fall of Malacca to the Portuguese, extending throughout coastal areas of Borneo and the Philippines, before it declined in the 17th and 18th centuries. It became a British protectorate in the 19th century.
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1841
Mexican–American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
1846–1848 conflict between Mexico and the United States
The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States. It followed the 1845 American annexation of Texas, which Mexico still considered its territory because it refused to recognize the Treaties of Velasco, signed by President Antonio López de Santa Anna after he was captured by the Texian Army during the 1836 Texas Revolution. The Republic of Texas was de facto an independent country, but most of its Anglo-American citizens who had moved from the United States to Texas after 1822 wanted to be annexed by the United States.
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1846
The first powered, passenger-carrying airship, the Giffard dirigible, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
1852 airship built by French aviator Henri Giffard
The Giffard dirigible or Giffard airship was an airship built in France in 1852 by Henri Giffard, it was the first powered and steerable airship to fly. The craft featured an elongated hydrogen-filled envelope that tapered to a point at each end. From this was suspended a long beam with a triangular, sail-like rudder at its aft end, and beneath the beam a platform for the pilot and steam engine. Due to the highly flammable nature of the lifting gas, special precautions were taken to minimise the potential for the envelope to be ignited by the engine beneath it. The engine's exhaust was diverted downwards to a long pipe projecting below the platform, and the area surrounding the boiler's stoke hole was surrounded by wire gauze. On 24 September 1852, Giffard flew the airship from the hippodrome at Place de l'Etoile to Élancourt, covering the 27 km (17 mi) in around 3 hours, demonstrating maneuvering along the way. The engine, however, was not sufficiently powerful to allow Giffard to fly against the wind to make a return journey.
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1852
Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
19th-century French naval officer and colonial administrator
Auguste Febvrier-Despointes was a French counter admiral. He served as the first commandant of New Caledonia from 24 September 1853 to 1 January 1854.
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1853
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20 people 1983 – 2003
Joe Locke
Joe Locke
Manx actor
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2003
Gaeul
Gaeul
South Korean singer, rapper, and dancer
Kim Ga-eul, best known mononymously as Gaeul, is a South Korean singer, rapper, and dancer under Starship Entertainment. She is known for being a member of the South Korean girl group Ive.
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2002
Nikolas Cruz
Nikolas Cruz
American mass murderer
Nikolas Jacob Cruz is an American mass murderer who perpetrated the Parkland high school shooting, one of the deadliest school shootings in the United States. On February 14, 2018, Cruz killed fourteen students and…
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1998
Tosin Adarabioyo
Tosin Adarabioyo
English footballer
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1997
Sonya Deville
Sonya Deville
American wrestler and mixed martial artist
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1993
Ben Platt
Ben Platt
American actor, singer, and songwriter
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1993
Oriol Romeu
Oriol Romeu
Spanish footballer
Oriol Romeu Vidal is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for EFL Championship club Southampton.
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1991
Vontaze Burfict
Vontaze Burfict
American football player
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1990
Pia Wurtzbach
Pia Wurtzbach
Filipina actress, model, and beauty queen, Miss Universe 2015
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1989
Karl Alzner
Karl Alzner
Canadian ice hockey player
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1988
Steven Kampfer
Steven Kampfer
American ice hockey player
Steven Allan Kampfer is an American former professional ice hockey defenseman. He was selected by the Anaheim Ducks of the National Hockey League (NHL) in the fourth round, 93rd overall, of the 2007 NHL entry draft. He…
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1988
Kyle Sullivan
American actor
Kyle Sullivan is an American former child actor, known for appearing on the Nickelodeon TV series All That and the Fox sitcom The War at Home.
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1988
Spencer Treat Clark
Spencer Treat Clark
American actor
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1987
Matthew Connolly
Matthew Connolly
English footballer
Matthew Thomas Martin Connolly is an English former professional footballer who played as a defender.
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1987
Grey Damon
Grey Damon
American actor
Grey Damon is an American actor, known for his roles in Friday Night Lights, The Nine Lives of Chloe King and Station 19. He resides in Los Angeles. Beginning with its premiere in May 2015, Damon co-starred with David…
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1987
Max Lercher
Max Lercher
Austrian politician
Maximilian Lercher is an Austrian politician and former member of the National Council. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Upper Styria from October 2019 to October 2024. He was a member of the…
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1986
Eloise Mumford
Eloise Mumford
American actress
Eloise Mumford is an American actress known for her roles on the television series Lone Star, The River, The Right Stuff, and Cross. She appeared as Katherine "Kate" Kavanagh in the Fifty Shades of Grey film series.
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1986
Jonathan Soriano
Jonathan Soriano
Spanish footballer
Jonathan Soriano Casas is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a striker.
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1985
Bobby Brown
Bobby Brown
American basketball player
Robert Douglas Brown is an American former professional basketball player who is the director of player development for the Cal State Fullerton Titans men's basketball team. Standing at 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), he played the…
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1984
Liam Finn
Liam Finn
Australian-New Zealand singer-songwriter and guitarist
Liam Mullane Finn is a New Zealand singer and musician. Born in Melbourne, Australia, he moved to New Zealand as a child. He is the son of musicians Sharon (Johnson) and Neil Finn. In 2020, he joined his father's band,…
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1983
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20 people 2012 – 2025
Sara Jane Moore
Sara Jane Moore
American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford (born 1930)
Sara Jane Moore was an American accountant and FBI informant who attempted to assassinate U.S. president Gerald Ford in 1975.
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2025
Pharoah Sanders
Pharoah Sanders
American jazz saxophonist (born 1940)
Pharoah Sanders was an American jazz saxophonist. Known for his overblowing, harmonic, and multiphonic techniques on the saxophone, as well as his use of "sheets of sound", Sanders played a prominent role in the…
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2022
Dean Jones
Dean Jones
Australian cricketer, coach and commentator (born 1961)
Dean Mervyn Jones was an Australian cricket player, coach and commentator who played Tests and One Day Internationals (ODIs) for Australia. He had an excellent record in Test cricket and is best remembered for…
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2020
Mel Charles
Welsh footballer (born 1935)
Melvyn Charles was a Welsh international footballer. Charles played as both a centre-half and centre-forward, with his preferred position being at right-half.
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2016
Bill Mollison
Bill Mollison
Australian researcher, author and biologist (born 1928)
Bruce Charles "Bill" Mollison was an Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and biologist. In 1981, he was awarded the Right Livelihood Award "for developing and promoting the theory and practice of…
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2016
Bill Nunn
Bill Nunn
American actor (born 1953)
William Goldwyn Nunn III was an American actor. He was known for his collaborations with director Spike Lee, notably as Radio Raheem in Do the Right Thing (1989). He also portrayed Daily Bugle editor Robbie Robertson in…
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2016
Buckwheat Zydeco
Buckwheat Zydeco
American accordionist and bandleader (born 1947)
Buckwheat Zydeco, was an American accordionist and zydeco musician. He was one of the few zydeco artists to achieve mainstream success. His music group was formally billed as Buckwheat Zydeco and Ils Sont Partis Band,…
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2016
Alan Moore
Alan Moore
Australian painter and educator (born 1914)
Alan Moore was an Australian war artist during World War II. He is best known for his images of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, and the Australian War Memorial holds many of his works.
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2015
Wang Zhongshu
Chinese archaeologist and academic (born 1925)
Wang Zhongshu was a Chinese archaeologist who helped to establish and develop the field of archaeology in China. One of the most prominent Asian archaeologists, he was awarded the Grand Prize of the Fukuoka Asian…
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2015
Deborah Cavendish
Deborah Cavendish
Duchess of Devonshire, English aristocrat, socialite, and author (born 1920)
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2014
Christopher Hogwood
Christopher Hogwood
English harpsichord player and conductor, founded the Academy of Ancient Music (born 1941)
Christopher Jarvis Haley Hogwood was an English conductor, harpsichordist, and musicologist. Founder of the early music ensemble the Academy of Ancient Music, he was an authority on historically informed performance and…
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2014
Madis Kõiv
Estonian physicist, philosopher, and author (born 1929)
Madis Kõiv was an Estonian physicist, philosopher and writer.
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2014
Paul Dietzel
Paul Dietzel
American football player and coach (born 1924)
Paul Franklin Dietzel was an American college football player, coach, and athletics administrator. He served as the head coach at Louisiana State University (1955–1961), the United States Military Academy (1962–1965),…
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2013
Margaret Feilman
Margaret Feilman
Australian architect and urban planner (born 1921)
Margaret Anne Feilman was an Australian architect and Perth's first female town planner. She practiced as an architect and landscape designer. A founding member of the Western Australian Town Planning Institute in 1950,…
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2013
Boris Karvasarsky
Ukrainian-Russian psychiatrist and author (born 1931)
Boris Dmitrievich Karvasarsky was a Russian psychiatrist, a disciple of V. N. Myasishchev.
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2013
Anthony Lawrence
English-Hong Kong journalist and author (born 1912)
Anthony John Lawrence, OBE was a British journalist. His most high-profile role was that of chief Far East correspondent for BBC Radio during the Vietnam War. He died in Hong Kong on 24 September 2013.
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2013
Sagadat Nurmagambetov
Sagadat Nurmagambetov
Kazakh general and politician (born 1924)
Sagadat Kozhakhmetovich Nurmagambetov was a Soviet and Kazakh general who served as Chairman of Kazakhstan's State Defense Committee in 1991-1992 and Kazakhstan's first Minister of Defense following the dissolution of…
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2013
Paul Oliver
Paul Oliver
American football player (born 1984)
Paul J. Oliver was an American professional football safety of the National Football League (NFL) who was selected in the fourth round of the 2007 Supplemental NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers. He was also briefly a…
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2013
Pierre Adam
French cyclist (born 1924)
Pierre Louis Eugène Adam was a French cyclist. He was born in Paris. He won a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, together with Fernand Decanali, Charles Coste and Serge Blusson.
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2012
Bruno Bobak
Polish-Canadian painter and educator (born 1923)
Bruno Bobak, was a Polish-born Canadian Official war artist and art teacher. His main medium was watercolour painting but he also produced woodcuts.
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2012
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What happened on September 24?

A featured event on this date is 2023: NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth. This page also lists 43 events from other years on the same day.

Why is September 24 remembered in history?

September 24 brings together events, births, and deaths across many eras, which makes it useful for seeing how one calendar date connects different historical turning points.

Who was born on September 24?

Notable birthdays on this date include Joe Locke, Gaeul, Nikolas Cruz.

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Who died on September 24?

Notable deaths on this date include Sara Jane Moore, Pharoah Sanders, Dean Jones.

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What happened on September 24 in history?

On September 24, one notable event in history was 2023: NASA's OSIRIS-REx capsule containing samples from the asteroid 101955 Bennu successfully lands back on Earth..

This date currently highlights 43 recorded events on thisDay.info, spanning 787 – 2023.

DateSeptember 24
Featured year2023
LocationHistorical Location
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