September 24, is a remarkable day as far as history is concerned. Below are some of the events that happened.
- 1688 – France declared war on Germany.
- 1896 – American author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born.
- 1948 – Honda Motor Company was founded by Soichiro Honda.
- 1952 – American fast food restaurant chain “KFC” opened its first franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah.
- 1955 – US President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.
- 1957 – Camp Nou, situated in Barcelona, Spain, opened its doors for football fans.
- 1973 – Guinea-Bissau gained independence.
- 1978 – USSR performed the first underground nuclear test.
- 1982 – Italian, U.S. & French peacekeeping troops began to arrive in Lebanon.
- 1990 – South African President F. W. de Klerk met the then US President George H. W. Bush in Washington, D.C.
- 1994 – Parliamentary election was held in Ukraine.
- 1996 – American President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
- 2013– A 7.7 magnitude earthquake in Balochistan, Pakistan claimed 515 lives.
- 2015 – 717 people were killed in a stampede during the Hajj.
- 2015 – Pope Francis becomes the 1st pope to address the US Congress.
- 2015 – The Burkina Faso interim President Michel Kafando was reinstated a week after a military coup.
- 2016 – The National Museum of African American History and Culture opened in Washington D.C.
- 2019 – The UK Supreme Court suspended the UK parliament for 5 weeks.
- 2018 – Real Madrid midfielder & Croatian World Cup captain Luka Modrić was named the world’s best male player at the FIFA Awards in London.
- 2018 – According to the Ministry of Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the deadly Ebola virus had claimed 69 lives and sickened 150 people.