September 24

Today Is...

National Cherries Jubilee

National Bluebird of Happiness Day
(The mythology of the bluebird of happiness goes back thousands of years. The bluebird is widely accepted as a symbol of cheerfulness, good health, new births, prosperity, and hearth and home.)

Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving

World Maritime Day

Punctuation Day

Innergize Day
(observed annually on the day after the Autumnal Equinox. This is a day for you! Take this day to relax and rejuvenate yourself.)

National Teach Ag Day
(a day to celebrate school-based agricultural education and to encourage agricultural education advocate)

Birthdays
1755 – John Marshall, American captain, jurist, and politician, 4th United States Secretary of State (d. 1835)
1870 – Georges Claude, French chemist and engineer, invented Neon lighting (d. 1960)
1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1940)
1918 – Audra Lindley, American actress most famous for her role as landlady Helen Roper on the sitcom Three's Company and its spin-off, The Ropers. (d. 1997)
1921 – Jim McKay, American sportscaster and journalist (d. 2008)
1931 - Anthony Newley, English-American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1999)
1936 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer, director, producer and screenwriter, created The Muppets (d. 1990)
1941 – Linda McCartney, American singer, photographer, and activist (Wings and Suzy and the Red Stripes) (d. 1998)
1948 – Phil Hartman, Canadian-American actor, singer, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
1962 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian actress and screenwriter "My Big Fat Greek Wedding"

Today In History 
1180 – Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
1780 – Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
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.
1852 – The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
1890 – The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
1935 – Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
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 – USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
1968 – 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
1975 – Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on the Southwest Face expedition become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces.
1979 – CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
2015 – At least 717 people are killed and another 863 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.