THIS DAY IN HISTORY ― SEPTEMBER 24

September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 98 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Tuesday or Wednesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Friday or Sunday (56). 

NATIONAL PUNCTUATION DAY  

622 – Muhammad and his followers completed their Hijra from Mecca to Medina to escape religious persecution.

1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.

1789 – The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of the United States Attorney General and the federal judiciary system, and orders the composition of the Supreme Court of the United States.

1869 – "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.

1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.

1914 – World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins. It was the longest siege of the First World War (133 days), and a crushing defeat for Austria-Hungary against the Russian attackers.

1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.

1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

1960 – The USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.

1962 – United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.

1979 – CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.

2005 – Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating portions of southwestern Louisiana and extreme southeastern Texas.

2009 – The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of LRAD in U.S. history.

2014 – The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully inserted into orbit of Mars.

2015 – At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

TODAY'S BIRTHS

1755 – John Marshall, American captain, jurist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of State (d. 1835)

1883 – Franklin Clarence Mars, American businessman, founded Mars, Incorporated (d. 1934)

1902 – Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian religious leader and politician, 1st Supreme Leader of Iran (d. 1989)

1920 – Richard Bong, American soldier and pilot, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)

From Wikipedia and Google, except as noted.