Historical Events - September 24

1664: The Netherlands ceded New Amsterdam to England.

1873: Mahatma Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj.

1932: The signing of the Puna Pact by Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, and Mukundrao Jaykar.

1946: Cathay Pacific Airways was established in Hong Kong.

1947: 1,200 refugees slaughtered on the train to Pakistan. A trainload of Muslim refugees fleeing to Pakistan has been massacred by Sikhs at Amritsar in Punjab, with at least 1,200 defenseless people shot and hacked to death.

1948: Establishment of Honda Motor Company.

1960: The First nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS enterprises, was launched at Newport, Virginia.

1973: Guinea-Bissau gained independence from Portugal.

1994: Death sentence handed down to controversial author Dr. Salman Rushdie for his novel Satanic Verses.

1999: The second unit of Kaiga nuclear power plant commissioned.

2007: India won the T20 world cup under the captaincy of MS Dhoni.

2009: India’s first unmanned lunar probe, Chandrayan 1, discovered large amounts of water on the Moon.

 

Famous Birthdays – September 24

1534: Guru Ram Das, the 4th Guru of the Sikhs.

1564: William Adams, was the first Englishman to reach Japan during a five-ship expedition for a private Dutch fleet.

1861: Madam Bhikaji Rustum Kama, Indian revolutionary.

1870: Georges Claude, a French engineer. He is the inventor of neon lights.

1896: F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, and short story writer.

1902: Ruhollah Khomeini, an Iranian cleric, and politician.

1911: Konstantin Chernenko, Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia.

1924: Guru Charan Singh Tohra, leader of the Akali Dal and chairman of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Samiti.

1925: Autar Singh Paintal, an Indian science, and educational writer.

1930: John Watts Young, an American astronaut. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon.

1940: Aarti Saha, the first Indian woman swimmer to swim in the English Gulf.

1942: Linda McCartney, American photographer, musician, animal rights activist, and entrepreneur.

1950: Mohinder Amarnath, cricketer, and commentator. He is the son of Lala Amarnath, the first post-independence captain of India.

 

Death Anniversaries – September 24

1541: Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.

1896: Louis Gerhard De Geer, Sweden’s first prime minister.

1904: Niels Ryberg Finsen, a Danish-Faroese physician and scientist, the first Nobel laureate from the country.

1939: Carl Laemmle Jr., American Businessman, founder of Universal Studios.

1945: Johannes Wilhelm “Hans” Geiger, German physicist.

1992: Sarv Mittra Sikri, 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India.

1999: Ester Boserup, Danish economist.

2004 – Raja Ramanna was an Indian physicist.

2006 – Padmini, an Indian actress, and trained Bharatanatyam dancer.