September 24: Banned Books Week begins (2017); Heritage Day in South Africa
Camp Nou, Barcelona
- 1645 – English Civil War: Royalists under the personal command of King Charles I suffered a significant defeat in the Battle of Rowton Heath.
- 1841 – The Sultan of Brunei granted Sarawak to British adventurer James Brooke.
- 1957 – Barcelona's Camp Nou (pictured), currently the largest stadium in Europe with a seating capacity of 99,354, opened.
- 1992 – Oba Chandler was arrested three years after he committed a triple murder in Tampa Bay, Florida, U.S., when his neighbor identified handwriting samples that police had placed on local billboards.
- 2007 – During the Saffron Revolution in Myanmar, the largest anti-government protests in 20 years took place in Yangon.
Antoine-Louis Barye (b. 1796) · Georges Claude (b. 1870) · Gennady Yanayev (d. 2010)
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