On This Day in History for September 24
Events in History
- 673 Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
- 787 Second Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor in present-day İznik, Turkey
- 1180 Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
- 1493 Christopher Columbus embarks on his second expedition to the New World, setting sail with a fleet of 17 ships
- 1529 Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman troops arrive in Vienna, beginning of the siege
- 1537 Uprising in Lubeck fails
- More Events in History
Girolamo Cardano
Albrecht von Wallenstein
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Howard Florey
Ayatollah Khomeini
Konstantin ChernenkoWeddings in History
- 1487 Founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak marries Mata Sulakkhani in Batala
- 1977 Radio personality Rush Limbaugh (26) weds Roxy McNeely, a radio advertising salesperson, at Centenary United Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau, Missouri; divorced 1980
More Weddings & Divorces in History
Paracelsus
Dr. SeussSeptember in History
'I Have Not Yet Begun To Fight'
After refusing to surrender, John Paul Jones, the father of the US Navy, achieved a dramatic against-the-odds victory against the British on this day.
September 23, 1779Little Rock Crisis
The 101st Airborne Division escort the nine black students into Little Rock School in Arkansas
September 23, 1957Airship Bomb Crew Meet their Match in Policeman
They dropped their bombs and planned to escape, but the German airship crew hadn’t reckoned on the tenacity of a lone British policeman on his bike.
September 24, 1916Turin Shroud: Holy Relic or Fake?
For 600 years controversy has raged over the Turin Shroud, said to be Christ’s burial cloth. But thousands gazed in awe when, on this day, it went on display.
September 25, 1933
