Explore 24 September

Explore 24 September: Guinea-Bissau declares independence, Honda is founded, Camp Nou opens and India reaches Mars. Meet F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jim Henson and Howard Florey, born on this date.

This day through time →7 verified events across 2 eras

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Timeline ◈3Historic
Moments ♙6Born
Today ✦4Lives
Remembered ◉1Firsts &
Discoveries ☆1Sporting
Moments

Amílcar Cabral, founder of the PAIGC.

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1973

Guinea-Bissau declares independence

On 24 September 1973 the independence of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau was proclaimed at a gathering of guerrilla fighters at Madina do Boé, near the border with Guinea. It came eight months after the assassination of Amílcar Cabral, the founder of the PAIGC, on 20 January 1973.

Lisbon called the announcement a fantasy, but Portugal later agreed to recognise the new state, and full independence was achieved on 10 September 1974.

Read the full storyHistory & Timeline →Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Guinea-Bissau, independence ↗

Soichiro Honda.

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1948

Honda Motor Company is founded

Honda Motor Company was founded on 24 September 1948 in Hamamatsu, Japan, with capital of one million yen. Soichiro Honda and Takeo Fujisawa were its co-founders, and with the president there were 34 employees.

Honda had earlier founded the Honda Technical Research Institute. In August 1949 the company introduced its first full-fledged motorcycle, the Dream D-Type, developed entirely in-house.

Read the full storyHistory & Timeline →Source: Honda Global: Do you remember September 24, 1948? ↗

Devils Tower, Wyoming.

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1906

Devils Tower becomes the first national monument

On 24 September 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower in Wyoming the first national monument under the Antiquities Act. The proclamation protected a reservation of 1,152 acres around the ‘lofty and isolated rock’, describing it as an extraordinary example of erosion and an object of great scientific interest.

Before leaving office in 1909 Roosevelt proclaimed eighteen national monuments, more than any other president.

Read the full storyHistory & Timeline →Source: National Park Service: The proclamation of national monuments under the Antiquities Act ↗

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PEOPLE

Born Today

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Born 1583

Albrecht von Wallenstein

Bohemian military leader who commanded imperial forces for the Habsburgs in the Thirty Years’ War; he was assassinated in 1634.

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Born 1884

İsmet İnönü

Turkish soldier and statesman, second president of the Republic of Turkey.

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Born 1896

F. Scott Fitzgerald

American novelist of the Jazz Age, author of The Great Gatsby.

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Born 1898

Howard Florey

Australian pathologist who led the team that turned penicillin into a usable drug and shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

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Born 1905

Severo Ochoa

Spanish-American biochemist and Nobel laureate for his work on the synthesis of RNA.

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Born 1936

Jim Henson

American puppeteer who created the Muppets.

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IDEAS THAT CHANGED THINGS

Firsts, Science & Discoveries

Mars.

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2014

India’s Mars Orbiter Mission reaches Mars

On 24 September 2014 India’s Mars Orbiter Mission, or Mangalyaan, entered orbit around Mars, making the Indian Space Research Organisation the fourth space agency to place a probe there, after the American, Russian and European agencies. It was India’s first interplanetary mission.

The spacecraft, launched on 5 November 2013 by a PSLV-C25 rocket, cost about $69 million and took about two years from concept to orbit. It entered a highly elliptical orbit of 423 by 80,000 km.

Read the full storyHistory & Timeline →Source: NASA Science: Mars Orbiter Mission ↗

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SPORTING HISTORY

Sporting Moments

Camp Nou during a match against Inter in 2019.

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1957

Camp Nou opens

Camp Nou opened on 24 September 1957, on the feast of La Mercè, Barcelona’s patron saint. It held 93,053 spectators at first and cost 288 million pesetas, replacing FC Barcelona’s old ground at Les Corts.

The inauguration included a mass, a blessing by the Archbishop of Barcelona and a match against a selection of Warsaw players, which Barça won 4-2, with Eulogio Martínez scoring the first goal.

Read the full storyHistory & Timeline →Source: FC Barcelona: 24 September 1957, the day the Camp Nou dream came true ↗

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LIVES REMEMBERED