Year 1629
Jacques Specx appointed Governor General of Dutch-Indies.
SEPTEMBER 24
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24 September: What Happened On This Day in History
Curated historical timeline of momentous political pacts, freedom struggle uprisings, constitutional developments, scientific breakthroughs, and prominent birthdays recorded on 24 September.
Year 1664
The Netherlands ceded New Amsterdam to England.
Year 1674
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj was second time crowned by 'Tantrik Paddhati'.
Year 1726
King George empowered the company to establish Municipal Corporation and Mayor s Courts in Bombay and Calcutta.
Year 1873
Mahatma Phule founded the Satyashodhak Samaj.
Year 1932
Gandhi and Dr. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
Year 1932
The signing of the Puna Pact by Mahatma Gandhi, Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Pandit Madan Mohan Malviya, and Mukundrao Jaykar.
Year 1946
Cathay Pacific Airways was established in Hong Kong.
Year 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.
Year 1948
Establishment of Honda Motor Company.
Year 1960
The First nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the USS enterprises, was launched at Newport, Virginia.
Year 1973
Guinea-Bissau gained independence from Portugal.
Year 1992
Five selected regional TV channels go national by direct linking to INSAT.
Year 1994
Death sentence handed down to controversial author Dr. Salman Rushdie for his novel Satanic Verses.
Year 1995
Kanpur University was renamed as Chhatrapati Shahu University.
Year 1999
The second unit of Kaiga nuclear power plant commissioned.
Year 1999
The Chief Controller of Defence Accounts (pensions) was renamed as the Principal Controller of Defence Accounts(Pensions), Allahabad.
Year 2007
India won the T20 world cup under the captaincy of MS Dhoni.
Year 2009
India’s first unmanned lunar probe, Chandrayan 1, discovered large amounts of water on the Moon.
Born 1534
Guru Ram Das, the 4th Guru of the Sikhs.
Born 1564
William Adams, was the first Englishman to reach Japan during a five-ship expedition for a private Dutch fleet.
Born 1861
Madam Bhikaji Rustum Kama, Indian revolutionary.
Born 1829
Anandram Dhekial Fukan, father of modern Assamia poetry and essay writer, was born.
Born 1870
Georges Claude, a French engineer. He is the inventor of neon lights.
Born 1896
F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist, and short story writer.
Born 1902
Ruhollah Khomeini, an Iranian cleric, and politician.
Born 1911
Konstantin Chernenko, Secretary of the Communist Party of Russia.
Born 1914
Janardan Swami was born.
Born 1918
Michael J. S. Dewar, Indian-born American theoretical chemist who developed the Dewar–Chatt–Duncanson model (d. 1997)
Born 1921
Dr. Sakharam Gangadhar Malshe, researcher and critic, was born.
Born 1922
Jugal Mondal, social worker and politician, was born at Howrah.
Born 1924
Guru Charan Singh Tohra, leader of the Akali Dal and chairman of the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Samiti.
Born 1925
Autar Singh Paintal, Indian physiologist and academic (d. 2004)
Born 1925
Autar Singh Paintal, an Indian science, and educational writer.
Born 1930
John Watts Young, an American astronaut. He became the ninth person to walk on the Moon.
Born 1934
Arvind Laxman Apte, right-hand batsman, was born in Mumbai.
Born 1936
Sivanthi Adithan, Indian businessman (d. 2013)
Born 1940
Aarti Saha, the first Indian woman swimmer to swim in the English Gulf.
Born 1942
Linda McCartney, American photographer, musician, animal rights activist, and entrepreneur.
Born 1950
Mohinder Amarnath, cricketer, and commentator. He is the son of Lala Amarnath, the first post-independence captain of India.
Born 1966
Rajesh Khattar, Indian voice actor
Died 1541
Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist, lay theologian, and philosopher of the German Renaissance.
Died 1777
Sarfoji Bhosle, king of Tanjawar, was born.
Died 1815
John Sevier, Indian fighter (Gov/Rep-Tn), died at the age of 70.
Died 1856
Henry, first Viscount Hardinge of Lahore and Governor General of India, passed away.
Died 1859
Nana Saheb, alias Dhundu Pant, one of the top leaders of Sepoy Mutiny, passed away in Nepal.
Died 1896
Louis Gerhard De Geer, Sweden’s first prime minister.
Died 1904
Niels Ryberg Finsen, a Danish-Faroese physician and scientist, was the first Nobel laureate from the country.
Died 1932
Preetilata Waddedara, the first armed woman revolutionary, was hanged for "Chatgaon Ammunitions Plot".
Died 1939
Carl Laemmle Jr., American Businessman, and founder of Universal Studios.
Died 1945
Johannes Wilhelm “Hans” Geiger, German physicist.
Died 1992
Sarv Mittra Sikri, 13th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India.
Died 1999
Ester Boserup, Danish economist.
Died 2004
Raja Ramanna was an Indian physicist.
Died 2006
Padmini, an Indian actress, and trained Bharatanatyam dancer.