September 24: Independence Day in Guinea-Bissau (1973); Heritage Day in South Africa; Republic Day in Trinidad and Tobago (1976)
HMA No. 1 wreckage
- 1180 – The Byzantine Empire was weakened by the death of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos.
- 1877 – The Imperial Japanese Army defeated Saigō Takamori and the Satsuma clan samurai at the Battle of Shiroyama in Kagoshima, the decisive engagement of the Satsuma Rebellion.
- 1911 – His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, was wrecked (pictured) by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
- 1946 – Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to US President Harry S. Truman, presented him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that would form the basis of the US policy of containment.
- 1996 – Representatives from 71 nations signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which has not yet come into force because not enough signatories have ratified it.
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