Today in History in 1906 Devils Tower in Wyoming becomes the first National Monument in the United States.

The On This Day In History archives at “Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia” contains over 200,000 events, birthdays and deaths from 6,000 years of history. Here is a roundup of a few of them:

September 24 is the 267th day of the year (268th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 98 days remaining until the end of the year.

EVENTS

622 – The False Prophet Muhammad completes his Hijra (pilgrimage) from Mecca to Medina.

1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, the last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration, dies. This leads to an irreversible decline of the Byzantine Empire.

1645 - English Civil War: Battle of Rowton Heath - Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles I of England.

1664 – The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam (New York) to England.

1780 - Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British major John Andre exposes Arnold's plan to surrender West Point.

1789 - United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates the office of United States Attorney General and the Federal Judiciary System, also ordering the composition of the United States Supreme Court.

1830 - Belgian Revolution: A revolutionary committee of notables from the Provisional Government of Belgium.

1841 - The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.

1846 - Mexican-American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey, Mexico.

1852 - The first airship powered by a steam engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 kilometres) from Paris to Trappes.

1853 - France takes control of New Caledonia.

1856 - The paddle steamer Niagara sinks on Lake Michigan, near Port Washington, Wisconsin, killing over 60 people.

1869 – The Black Friday crisis occurs in the United States, in relation to gold prices.

1877 - Battle of Shiroyama: Decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese over the Satsuma Rebellion.

1906 – Devils Tower in Wyoming becomes the first National Monument in the United States.

1932 - Mahatma Gandhi and B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).

1946 - Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.

1948 – The Honda Motor Company is founded.

1950 - Forest fires black out the Sun over parts of Canada and New England.

1957 – The Camp Nou football (soccer) stadium opens in Barcelona, Spain.

1957 - US President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas to enforce desegregation.

1962 - The United States Court of Appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.

1968 – Swaziland joins the UN.

1968 - The TV program 60 Minutes is first broadcast on CBS.

1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares independence from Portugal.

1979 - Compu-Serve launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first electronic mail service.

1988 – The National League for Democracy is founded by Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma.

1988 - 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul: Canada's Ben Johnson wins the Men's 100 metres race over Carl Lewis, smashing the world record. However, Johnson fails a drug test shortly after, leading to a major scandal.

1990 - The Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.

1991 - Nirvana's Nevermind album is released in the US.

1993 – The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as King.

1996 – Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty at the UN.

2005 – Hurricane Rita strikes land near the Texas–Louisiana border.

2007 - 30,000 to 100,000 people protest in Rangoon against Burma's ruling military junta.

2007 - The sitcom The Big Bang Theory is first broadcast.

2009 - The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US, with over 30 global leaders attending.

2013 - A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing over 300 people. It also creates a small island off the south coast.

2014 - The Mars Orbiter Mission, a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation, successfully enters into orbit around the planet Mars.

2015 - At least 717 people are crushed to death and 863 wounded in a stampede at the Hajj pilgrimage near Mecca, Saudi Arabia.

2015 - Pope Francis becomes the first Pope to speak in front of the United States Congress.

2016 - Jeremy Corbyn defeats a challenge from Owen Smith to his leadership of the British Labour Party.

2016 - The National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, DC is officially opened by Barack Obama.

2017 - German federal election, 2017: Angela Merkel's alliance of the CDU and CSU remains the strongest faction in the Bundestag but with a much-reduced vote share at 33%. The Social Democrats return their worst result ever at 21%; the Free Democrats return to the Bundestag, while the far-right Alternative for Germany party, at 13%, is represented there for the first time.

2019 - The United Kingdom's supreme court rules that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's suspension of parliament was unlawful, thereby declaring the suspension to be null and void.

2019 - Spain's supreme court rules that the remains of General Francisco Franco should be removed from the Valley of the Fallen in the central area of the country.

2019 - An impeachment inquiry against Donald Trump is launched by the US Democrats over a phone call in which he is said to have pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch an investigation on Presidential candidate Joe Biden's son.