On This Day In History
23-24 September 1846. Leading astronomer, Johann Gottfried Galle, and his associates discovered the planet, Neptune, during observations at the Berlin Observatory. The group worked from Le Verrier’s previous calculations. It was a landmark moment of 19th-century astronomy. pic.twitter.com/3zSZFSfi0e
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 23, 2022
23 September 1889. Nintendo Koppai (later the Nintendo Company), was founded. The company originally produced card games. pic.twitter.com/z0wBsQ8aZr
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 23, 2022
23 September 1905. Norway and Sweden concluded negotiations for the Karlstad Treaty, which dissolved the union between the two countries. On 9 October, the Norwegian parliament voted to accept the terms of the treaty, and on 13 October the Swedish parliament did the same. pic.twitter.com/cFcdFHUTQ8
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 23, 2022
23 September 1913. French aviator, Roland Garros, became the first person to fly a plane across the Mediterranean. The French Open Tennis complex and championships are named in his honour. pic.twitter.com/18rTq0u5qF
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 23, 2022
23 September 1939. Ground-breaking Austrian psychoanalyst, Sigmund Freud, died (aged 83). He was the founder of psychoanalysis, a method for treating mental illness through a dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst. pic.twitter.com/L3kDl3HJfz
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 23, 2022
23 September 1974. The World’s first Ceefax teletext service was launched by the BBC. It was the forerunner to the current BBC Red Button service. Ceefax ended on 23 October 2012. pic.twitter.com/Prft65ns4H
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 23, 2022
23 September 2000. British rower, Steve Redgrave, won his 5th consecutive Olympic gold medal at the Sydney Olympic Games. He’s the most successful male rower in Olympic history, and the only man to have won gold medals at five consecutive Olympic Games in an endurance sport. pic.twitter.com/7y4KEbrFNr
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 23, 2022
23 September 2019. The British travel company, Thomas Cook Group, declared bankruptcy, leaving employees without jobs, and 600,000 customers stranded abroad. Hotels reported £3.5 million of unpaid bills by the company. pic.twitter.com/NwWpuld79a
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 23, 2022
September 24th
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
1789 US Federal Judiciary Act passes, creating a six-person Supreme Court
1869 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1877 Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
1950 Operation Magic Carpet concludes after having transported 45,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel
1994 National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar
Did You Know?
The President of the Latter-day Saints Wilford Woodruff issues a manifesto advising members that the teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned
Today in History in 1890
Would You Believe?
1st autopsy and coroner's jury verdict is recorded in Maryland
Today in History in 1657
This day 106 years ago - 24 September 1914 - the Irish Volunteers split over John Redmond's support for their serving in the First World War.
A majority (158,360) followed Redmond to form the National Volunteers; the rest (12,306) remained in Eoin MacNeill's Irish Volunteers. pic.twitter.com/ZoGwG3eJOV
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) September 24, 2020
In the 1840s enslaved women in Montgomery, US were experimented on without anaesthetic by J Marion Sims. #OTD in 2021 a monument was unveiled to 3 of them: Anarcha, Lucy & Betsey. Michelle Browder's 'Mothers of Gynecology' is made of donated metal objects. https://t.co/1Zrho8U7jG pic.twitter.com/taCQZSz36o
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) September 24, 2022
On this day in 1964, a crowd of at least 7,500 white demonstrators marched in New York City to protest against racial integration in the city’s public school system. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/cHWD10lrCg
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) September 24, 2022
24 September 1776. The St Leger the oldest of the 5 British classic flat horse races, was run for the first time at Doncaster. The first winner was Allabaculia (painting is of the 1836 running). pic.twitter.com/9PmucJQnfR
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 24, 2022
24 September 1871. British tennis legend, Lottie Dod, was born in Bebington, Wirral. She won the Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles Championship 5 times, the first one when she was only 15 years old, in the summer of 1887. She remains the youngest Wimbledon Ladies’ Singles Champion ever. pic.twitter.com/34oifT9orv
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 24, 2022
24 September 1898. Howard Florey was born in Adelaide, Australia. He shared the Nobel Prize in 1945, with Sir Ernst Chain and Sir Alexander Fleming for the development of penicillin. Florey and Chain were central as they turned penicillin from Fleming’s discovery into a drug. pic.twitter.com/qqapvK1FAq
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 24, 2022
24 September 1938. US tennis star, Donald Budge, became the first male player to win all 4 major tennis titles (Wimbledon, French, US, and Australian) in one calendar year (known as the “Grand Slam”). pic.twitter.com/oJOnapu6EN
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 24, 2022
24 September 1955. US President, Dwight D Eisenhower, suffered a serious heart attack while on vacation in Denver, Colorado. He recovered but never to full health. pic.twitter.com/hsSxCFQZf6
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 24, 2022
24 September 1960. USS Enterprise, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched. It was the 8th US naval vessel to bear the name. At 1,123 feet it’s the longest naval vessel ever built. Enterprise had a crew of 4,600. pic.twitter.com/Yl1AtjaxLC
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 24, 2022
24 September 1957. Camp Nou, the largest football stadium in Europe, was opened during an official ceremony in Barcelona, Spain. With a seating capacity of 99,354, it’s now the largest stadium in Spain and Europe, and the 4th largest football stadium in the world pic.twitter.com/a5YuQz3wSj
— Prof. Frank McDonough (@FXMC1957) September 24, 2022