September 24: Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau (1973); Heritage Day in South Africa; Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago (1976)
Manuel I Komnenos
- 622 – Muhammad and his followers completed their Hijra from Mecca to Medina to escape religious persecution.
- 1180 – The Byzantine Empire was weakened by the death of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos (pictured).
- 1890 – Wilford Woodruff, President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, wrote the first draft of a manifesto which officially disavowed the continuing practice of plural marriage.
- 1957 – Barcelona's Camp Nou, currently the largest stadium in Europe with a seating capacity of 99,354, opened.
- 1975 – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on the Southwest Face expedition became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces.
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