A complete timeline of historical events, famous births, notable deaths, and holidays that occurred on September 24 throughout history.
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With the death of Manuel I Komnenos, the last Byzantine Emperor of the Komnenian restoration, the Byzantine Empire begins its terminal decline
Christopher Columbus embarks on his second expedition to the New World, setting sail with a fleet of 17 ships
The Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20, 1 Stat. 73) is a United States federal statute enacted on September 24, 1789, during the first session of the First United States Congress.
On September 24, 1869, a gold panic broke out in the United States, triggering a financial crisis.
The Satsuma Rebellion, also known as the Seinan War, was a revolt of disaffected samurai against the new imperial government of the Empire of Japan, nine years into the Meiji era.
Operation Magic Carpet concludes after transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel
"60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV
"Jailhouse Rock" is a rock and roll song recorded by American singer Elvis Presley for the film of the same name. It was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
2,500 fans witness Babe Ruth's final New York Yankees appearance at Yankee Stadium
Founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak marries Mata Sulakhani in Batala
Gustav I, King of Sweden (35) marries his first wife Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (18) in Stockholm
Retired American MLB outfielder Ty Cobb (61) weds American divorcée Frances Cass (40); divorce in 1956
Start of Imperial Indiction
Pope Damasus I (305 – 11 December 384), also known as Damasus of Rome, was the bishop of Rome from October 366 to his death in 384.
Synod of Hertford holds the first general council of the Anglo-Saxon Church, issuing 10 canons
Second Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor in present-day İznik, Turkey
Catholic uprising in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (now Germany) fails
San Juan is the capital city and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory, and insular area of the United States.
Danish Renaissance Kronborg Castle, guarding Øresund Sound, is mostly destroyed in a fire and later rebuilt
Mughal forces of Shah Jahan capture the important Portuguese trading port of Hooghly in West Bengal after a three-month siege, freeing 10,000 Indian captives
First autopsy and coroner's jury verdict are recorded in Maryland
Fort Orange (Dutch: Fort Oranje) was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city and state capital Albany, New York developed near this site.
France declares war on Germany
Faneuil Hall (, or ) is a historic building near Government Center in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
The St Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.
African American slave and poet Jupiter Hammon delivers his "Address to the Negroes of the State of New York" speech advocating emancipation at a meeting of the African Society in New York
The Treaty of Adrianople (also called the Treaty of Edirne) concluded the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–29, between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and corn enforced in the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1846.
The Catholic dioceses in Great Britain are organised by two separate hierarchies: the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and the Catholic Church in Scotland.
Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes the first successful powered and controlled flight of a dirigible using a steam-powered engine, flying 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes
The Confederate States Congress was both the provisional and permanent legislative assembly June 1865, during the American Civil War.
Dar Al-Kutub (National Library and Archives of Egypt) inaugurates in Mustafa Fadel's palace, Cairo, as the first national library in the Middle East [1]
Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg" premieres in Vienna
Louisville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.
Adonis is a musical burlesque in two acts with both book and lyrics by William Gill that is a spoof of the Pygmalion myth.
Five German warships depart to Zanzibar
Alexander Dey patents the dial time recorder
President of the Latter-day Saints, Wilford Woodruff, issues a manifesto advising members that the teaching and practice of polygamy be abandoned
Prince George of Greece, convinced that he can no longer serve the cause of Crete, resigns as High Commissioner
Bob Rhoads becomes the first Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to throw a no-hit game, with Cleveland defeating Boston 2-1
Boston Red Sox slugger Babe Ruth sets an MLB season home run record with 28 against Yankee Bob Shawkey in a 2-1 loss at the Polo Grounds in New York City
Nuremberg Fusion Congress: reunion of the USDP and SPD; Karl Kautsky rejoins
St. Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby sets the National League home run record at 42
Boston () is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It serves as a cultural and financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States.
Cardinals clinch NL pennant by defeating Giants 6-4
The history of the New York Yankees Major League Baseball (MLB) team spans more than a century. Frank J.
George M. Cohan and Ring Lardner's musical play "Elmer the Great" premieres in NYC
Once in a Lifetime is a 1930 play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, the first of eight on which they collaborated in the 1930s. Hart wrote the original three-act play in 1929.
Round-robin playoff among NYC's three major league teams to raise money for the unemployed concludes with Brooklyn losing to both the Giants and the Yankees
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945.
Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo held outdoors under electric lights in Columbia, Mississippi
Bomb explodes in German headquarters at Hotel Continental in Kiev
Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, 360 kilometers (220 mi) west-southwest of Moscow.
Yankees set season attendance record of 2,309,029, surpassing 1929 Cubs
Soichiro Honda (本田 宗一郎, Honda Sōichirō; 17 November 1906 – 5 August 1991) was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Harlow is a town and local government district located in the west of Essex, England. Harlow was a small town until the mid-20th century. In 1947 it was designated as a new town.
"Take a Giant Step" opens on Broadway
Yankees tie a record as three of their pinch hitters strike out in one inning
First welded aluminum girder highway bridge is completed in Urbandale, Iowa
International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, Washington (PBS) begins broadcasting
Idle Dodgers clinch their second LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards
"The Munsters" premieres on TV
Ringo Starr forms Brickley Building Company Ltd
Belgian Victor Leemans is elected chairman of the European Parliament
France is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.
NFL St. Louis Cardinals' Jim Bakken kicks seven field goals against the Pittsburgh Steelers, setting an NFL record
Gilbert Raymond Hodges was an American first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played most of his 18-year career for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers.
Soviet space probe Luna 16 lands on Earth after the first unmanned round trip to the Moon
Eyskens-Cools disband Belgium's parliament
The 1972 New York Jets season was the 13th season for the team and the third in the National Football League.
The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (Portuguese: Guerra de Independência da Guiné-Bissau), also known as the Bissau-Guinean War of Independence, was an armed independence conflict that took place...
Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers is the 12th player to achieve 3,000 hits
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC OH-pek) is an organization enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent countries in order to collectively...
The Love Boat is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Wilford Lloyd Baumes that originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1977, to May 24, 1986.
Dutch women's hockey team wins World Championship
Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 with an ERA of 1.74
CompuServe begins offering a dial-up online information service to consumers, marketed as MicroNET [1]
MLB Philadelphia Phillies' Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for the 10th time
Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance this season
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
The Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF) was an international peacekeeping force created in August 1982 following a 1981 U.S.-brokered ceasefire between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)...
Dale Bryan Murphy is an American former outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for three National League (NL) teams, mainly the Atlanta Braves, from 1976 to 1993.
Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of champion Pakistan batsman Hanif Mohammad, scores 6 in drawn 2second Test vs. India in Jullundur and goes on to play 45 Tests
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division.
A relay swim team completes the fastest English Channel crossing in 15 hours and 30 minutes
Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is the ninth player to get six RBIs in an inning (fifth) and joins Willie McCovey in hitting two home runs in an inning twice
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
ABC premieres "The Preppie Murder", based on the 1986 murder in New York City of Jennifer Levin by ex-prep school student Robert Chambers
The first flag of East Germany was a tricolour of black, red and gold, identical to the flags of the Weimar Republic, West Germany, and present-day Germany.
Sibs is an American sitcom broadcast by ABC from September 17, 1991 until April 29, 1992.
Deion Luwynn Sanders Sr., commonly known as Deion Sanders, is an American football coach and former player who is the head football coach at the University of Colorado Boulder.
John Jaha ties the record with 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers)
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division.
Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is the oldest player to reach 100 RBIs
First Israeli killed by Islamists after PLO signs peace accord
Latin musicians Emilio and Gloria Estefan's boat is hit by a jet skier who dies from injuries off South Beach, Miami, Florida
Drug kingpin Ramon Arellano Felix placed on FBI's 10 most-wanted list
Crude oil and petroleum products futures fall to their lowest levels in nearly two years amid fears that a recession will reduce energy demand
Hurricane Rita is the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico, now tied with Hurricane Milton of 2024, as well as being one of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record...
Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores
Adam Frederick Goldberg is an American television and film producer, and writer. Goldberg is best known as the creator and showrunner of The Goldbergs, a television sitcom based on his childhood in...
Burkina Faso's interim President Michel Kafando is reinstated a week after a military coup
The US National Museum of African American History and Culture, established by an Act of Congress in 2003, opens in Washington, D.C.
Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Prague: Roger Federer remains unbeaten as Team Europe dominates Team World 15-9 in the inaugural team event
LeBron James calls President Donald Trump "U Bum" in a tweet in response to Trump's comments about Stephen Curry
Margo Hayes completes the third-ever female ascent of a 9a+ (5.15a) graded route by climbing Realization/Biographie in Céüse, France
Ebola virus has caused 69 deaths and sickened 150 people according to Ministry of Heath in the Democratic Republic of Congo
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake in northern Pakistan kills at least 10 and injures 300
Notorious Indian gangster Jitender Maan Gogi is shot dead in a court in Delhi by men posing as lawyers
Post-tropical storm remnant of Hurricane Fiona makes landfall near Whitehead, Nova Scotia, with sustained wind speeds of 165 km/h (103 mph); the strongest low-pressure system in Canadian history affects the four provinces of Atlantic Canada, as well as Quebec, causing major flooding and knocking out
The 2024 IFSC Climbing World Cup is the 36th edition of the international competition climbing series organised by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), held in 9 locations.
Airports in Aalborg and Billund in Denmark close temporarily due to suspicious drones being sighted near their airspace
John Marshall is born
F. Scott Fitzgerald writer, known for american writer, was born on 1896-09-24. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known as F.
Lottie Dod, English athlete, known for english tennis player, was born on 1871-09-24.
Tommy Armour is born
Eddie George athlete, known for american football player and coach and actor, was born on 1974-09-24. Edward Nathan George Jr.
Johan de Witt, Dutch statesman, known for dutch statesman, was born on 1625-09-24.
Howard Florey, Australian pathologist, known for australian pathologist, was born on 1898-09-24.
Start of Imperial Indiction
Pope Damasus I (305 – 11 December 384), also known as Damasus of Rome, was the bishop of Rome from October 366 to his death in 384.
Synod of Hertford holds the first general council of the Anglo-Saxon Church, issuing 10 canons
Second Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor in present-day İznik, Turkey
With the death of Manuel I Komnenos, the last Byzantine Emperor of the Komnenian restoration, the Byzantine Empire begins its terminal decline
Founder of Sikhism Guru Nanak marries Mata Sulakhani in Batala
Christopher Columbus embarks on his second expedition to the New World, setting sail with a fleet of 17 ships
Gustav I, King of Sweden (35) marries his first wife Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (18) in Stockholm
Catholic uprising in the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck (now Germany) fails
Paracelsus, German physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist, known for swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist, died on 1541-09-24.
San Juan is the capital city and most populous municipality in Puerto Rico, an unincorporated territory, and insular area of the United States.
Johan de Witt, Dutch statesman, known for dutch statesman, was born on 1625-09-24.
Danish Renaissance Kronborg Castle, guarding Øresund Sound, is mostly destroyed in a fire and later rebuilt
Mughal forces of Shah Jahan capture the important Portuguese trading port of Hooghly in West Bengal after a three-month siege, freeing 10,000 Indian captives
First autopsy and coroner's jury verdict are recorded in Maryland
Fort Orange (Dutch: Fort Oranje) was the first permanent Dutch settlement in New Netherland; the present-day city and state capital Albany, New York developed near this site.
France declares war on Germany
Faneuil Hall (, or ) is a historic building near Government Center in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
John Marshall is born
The St Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies.
African American slave and poet Jupiter Hammon delivers his "Address to the Negroes of the State of New York" speech advocating emancipation at a meeting of the African Society in New York
The Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20, 1 Stat. 73) is a United States federal statute enacted on September 24, 1789, during the first session of the First United States Congress.
The Treaty of Adrianople (also called the Treaty of Edirne) concluded the Russo-Turkish War of 1828–29, between Imperial Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
Pedro I dies
The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and corn enforced in the United Kingdom between 1815 and 1846.
The Catholic dioceses in Great Britain are organised by two separate hierarchies: the Catholic Church in England and Wales, and the Catholic Church in Scotland.
Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes the first successful powered and controlled flight of a dirigible using a steam-powered engine, flying 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes
The Confederate States Congress was both the provisional and permanent legislative assembly June 1865, during the American Civil War.
On September 24, 1869, a gold panic broke out in the United States, triggering a financial crisis.
Dar Al-Kutub (National Library and Archives of Egypt) inaugurates in Mustafa Fadel's palace, Cairo, as the first national library in the Middle East [1]
Lottie Dod, English athlete, known for english tennis player, was born on 1871-09-24.
Franz Grillparzer's "Ein Bruderzwist in Habsburg" premieres in Vienna
The Satsuma Rebellion, also known as the Seinan War, was a revolt of disaffected samurai against the new imperial government of the Empire of Japan, nine years into the Meiji era.
Louisville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, sixth-most populous city in the Southeast, and the 27th-most-populous city in the United States.
Adonis is a musical burlesque in two acts with both book and lyrics by William Gill that is a spoof of the Pygmalion myth.
Five German warships depart to Zanzibar
Alexander Dey patents the dial time recorder
President of the Latter-day Saints, Wilford Woodruff, issues a manifesto advising members that the teaching and practice of polygamy be abandoned
Tommy Armour is born
F. Scott Fitzgerald writer, known for american writer, was born on 1896-09-24. Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940), widely known as F.
Howard Florey, Australian pathologist, known for australian pathologist, was born on 1898-09-24.
Prince George of Greece, convinced that he can no longer serve the cause of Crete, resigns as High Commissioner
Bob Rhoads becomes the first Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to throw a no-hit game, with Cleveland defeating Boston 2-1
Boston Red Sox slugger Babe Ruth sets an MLB season home run record with 28 against Yankee Bob Shawkey in a 2-1 loss at the Polo Grounds in New York City
Nuremberg Fusion Congress: reunion of the USDP and SPD; Karl Kautsky rejoins
St. Louis Cardinals future Baseball Hall of Fame infielder Rogers Hornsby sets the National League home run record at 42
Boston () is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Massachusetts. It serves as a cultural and financial center of New England, a region of the Northeastern United States.
Cardinals clinch NL pennant by defeating Giants 6-4
The history of the New York Yankees Major League Baseball (MLB) team spans more than a century. Frank J.
George M. Cohan and Ring Lardner's musical play "Elmer the Great" premieres in NYC
Once in a Lifetime is a 1930 play by Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman, the first of eight on which they collaborated in the 1930s. Hart wrote the original three-act play in 1929.
Round-robin playoff among NYC's three major league teams to raise money for the unemployed concludes with Brooklyn losing to both the Giants and the Yankees
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), also known as FDR, was the 32nd president of the United States, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945.
2,500 fans witness Babe Ruth's final New York Yankees appearance at Yankee Stadium
Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo held outdoors under electric lights in Columbia, Mississippi
Bomb explodes in German headquarters at Hotel Continental in Kiev
Smolensk is a city and the administrative center of Smolensk Oblast, Russia, located on the Dnieper River, 360 kilometers (220 mi) west-southwest of Moscow.
Yankees set season attendance record of 2,309,029, surpassing 1929 Cubs
Soichiro Honda (本田 宗一郎, Honda Sōichirō; 17 November 1906 – 5 August 1991) was a Japanese engineer and industrialist. In 1948, he established Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
Retired American MLB outfielder Ty Cobb (61) weds American divorcée Frances Cass (40); divorce in 1956
Operation Magic Carpet concludes after transporting 45,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel
Harlow is a town and local government district located in the west of Essex, England. Harlow was a small town until the mid-20th century. In 1947 it was designated as a new town.
"Take a Giant Step" opens on Broadway
Yankees tie a record as three of their pinch hitters strike out in one inning
"Jailhouse Rock" is a rock and roll song recorded by American singer Elvis Presley for the film of the same name. It was written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller.
First welded aluminum girder highway bridge is completed in Urbandale, Iowa
International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, Washington (PBS) begins broadcasting
Idle Dodgers clinch their second LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards
"The Munsters" premieres on TV
Ringo Starr forms Brickley Building Company Ltd
Belgian Victor Leemans is elected chairman of the European Parliament
France is one of the five nuclear-weapon states recognized by the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but is not known to possess or develop any chemical or biological weapons.
NFL St. Louis Cardinals' Jim Bakken kicks seven field goals against the Pittsburgh Steelers, setting an NFL record
"60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV
Gilbert Raymond Hodges was an American first baseman and manager in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played most of his 18-year career for the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers.
Soviet space probe Luna 16 lands on Earth after the first unmanned round trip to the Moon
Eyskens-Cools disband Belgium's parliament
The 1972 New York Jets season was the 13th season for the team and the third in the National Football League.
The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (Portuguese: Guerra de Independência da Guiné-Bissau), also known as the Bissau-Guinean War of Independence, was an armed independence conflict that took place...
Al Kaline of the Detroit Tigers is the 12th player to achieve 3,000 hits
Eddie George athlete, known for american football player and coach and actor, was born on 1974-09-24. Edward Nathan George Jr.
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC OH-pek) is an organization enabling the co-operation of leading oil-producing and oil-dependent countries in order to collectively...
The Love Boat is an American romantic comedy-drama television series created by Wilford Lloyd Baumes that originally aired on ABC from September 24, 1977, to May 24, 1986.
Dutch women's hockey team wins World Championship
Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 with an ERA of 1.74
CompuServe begins offering a dial-up online information service to consumers, marketed as MicroNET [1]
MLB Philadelphia Phillies' Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for the 10th time
Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance this season
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
The Multinational Force in Lebanon (MNF) was an international peacekeeping force created in August 1982 following a 1981 U.S.-brokered ceasefire between the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)...
Dale Bryan Murphy is an American former outfielder in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played for three National League (NL) teams, mainly the Atlanta Braves, from 1976 to 1993.
Test cricket debut of Shoaib Mohammad, son of champion Pakistan batsman Hanif Mohammad, scores 6 in drawn 2second Test vs. India in Jullundur and goes on to play 45 Tests
The Chicago Cubs are an American professional baseball team based in Chicago. The Cubs compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) Central Division.
A relay swim team completes the fastest English Channel crossing in 15 hours and 30 minutes
Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is the ninth player to get six RBIs in an inning (fifth) and joins Willie McCovey in hitting two home runs in an inning twice
The Nevada National Security Sites (N2S2 or NNSS), popularized as the Nevada Test Site (NTS) until 2010, is a reservation of the United States Department of Energy located in the southeastern portion...
ABC premieres "The Preppie Murder", based on the 1986 murder in New York City of Jennifer Levin by ex-prep school student Robert Chambers
The first flag of East Germany was a tricolour of black, red and gold, identical to the flags of the Weimar Republic, West Germany, and present-day Germany.
Sibs is an American sitcom broadcast by ABC from September 17, 1991 until April 29, 1992.
Deion Luwynn Sanders Sr., commonly known as Deion Sanders, is an American football coach and former player who is the head football coach at the University of Colorado Boulder.
John Jaha ties the record with 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers)
The Los Angeles Dodgers are an American professional baseball team based in Los Angeles. The Dodgers compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West Division.
Toronto's Dave Winfield, 40, is the oldest player to reach 100 RBIs
First Israeli killed by Islamists after PLO signs peace accord
Latin musicians Emilio and Gloria Estefan's boat is hit by a jet skier who dies from injuries off South Beach, Miami, Florida
Drug kingpin Ramon Arellano Felix placed on FBI's 10 most-wanted list
Crude oil and petroleum products futures fall to their lowest levels in nearly two years amid fears that a recession will reduce energy demand
Hurricane Rita is the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico, now tied with Hurricane Milton of 2024, as well as being one of the most intense Atlantic hurricanes on record...
Books by Japanese authors or about Japan are suspended by Chinese bookstores
Adam Frederick Goldberg is an American television and film producer, and writer. Goldberg is best known as the creator and showrunner of The Goldbergs, a television sitcom based on his childhood in...
Burkina Faso's interim President Michel Kafando is reinstated a week after a military coup
The US National Museum of African American History and Culture, established by an Act of Congress in 2003, opens in Washington, D.C.
Laver Cup Men's Tennis, Prague: Roger Federer remains unbeaten as Team Europe dominates Team World 15-9 in the inaugural team event
LeBron James calls President Donald Trump "U Bum" in a tweet in response to Trump's comments about Stephen Curry
Margo Hayes completes the third-ever female ascent of a 9a+ (5.15a) graded route by climbing Realization/Biographie in Céüse, France
Ebola virus has caused 69 deaths and sickened 150 people according to Ministry of Heath in the Democratic Republic of Congo
A 5.8 magnitude earthquake in northern Pakistan kills at least 10 and injures 300
Notorious Indian gangster Jitender Maan Gogi is shot dead in a court in Delhi by men posing as lawyers
Post-tropical storm remnant of Hurricane Fiona makes landfall near Whitehead, Nova Scotia, with sustained wind speeds of 165 km/h (103 mph); the strongest low-pressure system in Canadian history affects the four provinces of Atlantic Canada, as well as Quebec, causing major flooding and knocking out
The 2024 IFSC Climbing World Cup is the 36th edition of the international competition climbing series organised by the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC), held in 9 locations.
Airports in Aalborg and Billund in Denmark close temporarily due to suspicious drones being sighted near their airspace