Today in History: 769 People Died in Stamp During Hajj in Saudi Arabia

September 24 is the 267th (268th in leap years) day of the year according to the Gregorian calendar. The number of days left until the end of the year is 98.

Railways

• September 24, 1872 “Department of Railways Administration was established and Mirliva Fevzi Pasha was appointed as director. The length of the railway in the Ottoman State reached 778 km.

Events 

• 787 – The Second Council of Nicaea, postponed for security reasons, convened again in Iznik. In this meeting, which was held during the anti-painting (Iconoclasm) period, decisions were taken to return to paintings.
• 1566 – The 11th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire II. Selim ascended the throne.
• 1852 - French Henri Giffard flew the airship for the first time.
• 1906 - The Devils Tower in Wyoming, United States, was declared the nation's first National Monument by US President Theodore Roosevelt.
• 1922 – Liberation of Bolvadin district of Afyonkarahisar province from Greek occupation.
• 1940 – II. During World War II, 129 British bombers bombarded industrial targets in Berlin, but all but 6 of the bombs were wasted due to fog.
• 1946 – Cathay Pacific airline was founded in Hong Kong.
• 1956 - Turkish Language Association "Best Work Award", "AliOrhan Hançerlioğlu won with his novel ”.
• 1960 – The Supreme Court of Justice was established to try the Democrat Party administration, which was removed from power by the 27 May Coup.
• 1973 - Guinea-Bissau declared its independence from Portugal.
• 1981 – Attack on the Consulate General of Paris: Armenian militants affiliated with ASALA raided the Turkish Consulate General in Paris; security guard Cemal Özen died, Consul General Kaya İnal was injured.
• 1987 – Süleyman Demirel was unanimously elected Chairman of the DYP Extraordinary Congress. Demirel officially returned to politics after the September 12 military coup.
• 2013 – Balochistan earthquakes: 7.7 M near Awaran city in Pakistan's Balochistan province_l A very strong earthquake occurred. At least 825 people were killed and hundreds more injured.
• 2015 – Stamp on Hajj: At least 769 people were killed and more than 900 injured after a stampede during Hajj in Saudi Arabia.

Births 

• 15 – Vitellius was the Roman Emperor who served from April 69, 17, in 69 AD, known as the Year of the Four Emperors, to December 22 of the same year (d. 69).
• 936 – Fena Hüsrev, ruler of the Buveyhogullari (d. 983)
• 1501 – Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician, physicist, astrologer, and physician (d. 1576)
• 1583 – Albrecht von Wallenstein, Bohemian soldier (d. 1634)
• 1717 – Horace Walpole, English politician and actor (d. 1797)
• 1725 – Arthur Guinness, Irish businessman (d. 1803)
• 1839 – Drengman Aaker, American politician and businessman (d. 1894)
• 1865 Mollie McConnell, American actress (d. 1920)
• 1874 – İbrahim Tevfik Efendi, son of Sultan Abdülmecid (d 1931)
• 1878 – Charles Ferdinand Ramuz, Swiss writer (d. 1947)
• 1884 – İsmet İnönü, Turkish soldier and politician (d. 1973)
• 1890 – AP Herbert, English politician, novelist, playwright, and humorist (d. 1971)
• 1893 – Mehmet Aziz, Turkish Cypriot doctor (d. 1991)
• 1894 – Tommy Armour, Scottish-American golfer (d. 1968)
• 1895 – André Frédéric Cournand, French-American physician (d. 1988)
• 1896 – F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author (d. 1940)
• 1898 – Howard Walter Florey, Australian pharmacist and pathologist (b. 1968)
• 1905 – Severo Ochoa, Spanish-American physician and biochemist (d. 1993)
• 1911 – Konstantin Chernenko, Soviet politician (d. 1985)
• 1917 – Otto Günsche, German SS officer and Hitler's aide (d. 2003)
• 1921 – Sheila MacRae, English actress, dancer, and singer (d. 2014)
• 1924 – Nina Bocharova, Soviet-Ukrainian gymnast (d. 2020)
• 1930 – John W. Young, American astronaut (d. 2018)
• 1934 – Manfred Wörner, German politician and diplomat (d. 1994)
• 1935 – Alfrēds Rubiks, Latvian communist politician
• 1936 – İnal Batu, Turkish diplomat and politician (d. 2013)
• 1936 – Jim Henson, American puppeteer and filmmaker (d. 1990)
• 1942 – Gerry Marsden, English pop-rock singer, songwriter, guitarist, and television host (d. 2021)
• 1944 – Yalçın Boratap, Turkish actor
• 1946 – Maria Teresa Ruiz, Chilean astronomer
• 1948 – Phil Hartman, American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and printmaker (d. 1988)
• 1948 – Agnieszka Zalewska, Polish physicist
• 1948 – Yavuz Sabuncu, Turkish academic and constitutional lawyer (d. 2007)
• 1949 – Pedro Almodóvar, Spanish director
• 1950 - Harriet Walter, English actress
• 1954 – Esengül, Turkish singer (d. 1979)
• 1954 – Marco Tardelli, Italian football player
• 1956 – Yılmaz Zafer, Turkish film actor (d. 1995)
• 1957 – Brad Bird, American film director, producer, and Academy Award winner
• 1958 – Kevin Sorbo, Norwegian-American actor
• 1959 – Erdin Bircan, Turkish businessman and politician (d. 2018)
• 1959 – Theo Paphitis, Greek-Cypriot-British entrepreneurial businessman
• 1959 – Steve Whitmire, American comedian, actor, and voice actor
• 1961 – John Logan, American playwright, screenwriter, and filmmaker
• 1962 – Ally McCoist, Scottish former footballer, manager
• 1962 – Mike Phelan, English footballer, football coach and manager
• 1962 – Nia Vardalos, Canadian-American actress, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Marko Pomerants, Estonian politician and environment minister
• 1966 – Yaşar Gaga, Turkish pop singer and manager (d. 2018)
• 1969 - Shawn "Clown" Crahan, American musician
• 1975 – Ahmet Saraçoğlu, Turkish theater, cinema and TV series actor
• 1976 – Carlos Almeida, Angolan professional basketball player
• 1976 – Stephanie McMahon, American businesswoman, professional wrestling manager
• 1976 – Tansel Öngel, Turkish theater and TV series actress
• 1977 – Ebru Destan, Turkish singer, actress and model
• 1979 – Fábio Aurélio is a former Brazilian football player of Italian origin.
• 1979 – Katja Kassin, German porn star
• 1979, Casey Johnson, American socioelite (d. 2010)
• 1980 – Petri Pasanen, Finnish football player
• 1980 – John Arne Riise, former Norwegian football player
• 1981 – Drew Gooden, American basketball player
• 1983 - Randy Foye, American professional basketball player
• 1985 - Jonathan Soriano, Spanish football player
• 1986 Leah Dizon, Japanese singer
• 1987 – Gurhan Gursoy, Turkish football player
• 1987 – Senzo Meyiwa, South African football player (d. 2014)
• 1989 – Pia Wurtzbach, Filipino model
• 1991 - Oriol Romeu, Spanish football player
• 1994 – Yuki Omoto, Japanese football player
• 1994 – Hannah Brown, American model
• 1995 - Naoki Otani, Japanese football player
• 1996 – Melisa Şenolsun, Turkish actress
• 1999 – Mei Nagano, Japanese actress

Deaths 

• 366 – Liberius, Bishop of Rome from February 6, 337 to April 12, 352, pope
• 768 – Pepin, statesman and later king of the Frankish Kingdom (b. 714)
• 1143 – II. Innocentius, pope from 14 February 1130 until his death on 24 September 1143
• 1180 – Manuel I, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1118)
• 1435 – Isabeau of Bavaria, former queen of France (b. 1370)
• 1494 – Angelo Poliziano, Italian humanist (b. 1454)
• 1541 – Paracelsus, Swiss physician, alchemist, botanist, and astrologer (b. 1493)
• 1572 – Túpac Amaru, last Inca ruler (b. 1545)
• 1732 – Reigen, 112th emperor of Japan in the traditional succession order (b. 1654)
• 1813 – André Ernest Modeste Grétry, French opera composer (b. 1741)
• 1834 – Pedro I, Emperor of Brazil (b. 1798)
• 1896 – Louis De Geer, Swedish politician and author (b. 1818)
• 1904 – Niels Ryberg Finsen, Danish physician (b. 1860)
• 1914 – İsmail Gaspıralı, Crimean Tatar intellectual, politician, educator, writer and publisher (b. 1851)
• 1921 – Jan Jakob Maria de Groot, Dutch Linguist, Turcologist, Sinologist and Historian of Religion (b. 1854)
• 1939 – Carl Laemmle, German-American filmmaker (b. 1867)
• 1941 – Gottfried Feder, German economist and one of the 6 founders of the NSDAP (b. 1883)
• 1945 – Hans Geiger, German physicist and inventor of the Geiger counter (b. 1882)
• 1948 – Warren William, American actor (b. 1894)
• 1973 – Şükûfe Nihal Başar, Turkish poet (b. 1896)
• 1978 – Hasso von Manteuffel, II. General der Panzertruppe of Nazi Germany in World War II and politician of West Germany (b. 1897)
• 1993 – Bruno Pontecorvo, Italian nuclear physicist (b. 1913)
• 1996 – Zeki Müren, Turkish singer, composer, songwriter and actor (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Françoise Sagan, French writer (b. 1935)
• 2008 – Kazım Kanat, Turkish journalist (b. 1950)
• 2009 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian novelist (suicide) (b. 1975)
• 2010 – Gennadi Yanayev, Soviet politician (b. 1937)
• 2013 – Deniz Teztel, Turkish journalist (b. 1959)
• 2015 – Uğur Dağdelen, Turkish football player (b. 1973)
• 2015 – Alan Moore, Australian war artist and painter (b. 1914)
• 2015 – Bilkisu Yusuf is a Nigerian journalist (b. 1952)
• 2016 – Vladimir Kuzmichyov, former Russian football player (b. 1979)
• 2016 – Bill Mollison, Australian researcher, author, scientist, teacher and naturalist (b. 1928)
• 2016 – Bill Nunn, American actor (b. 1952)
• 2017 – María Julia Alsogaray was an Argentine engineer and politician (b. 1942)
• 2017 – Gisèle Casadesus, French actress (b. 1914)
• 2017 – Kito Lorenc, German writer, poet and translator (b. 1938)
• 2018 – Norman Breyfogle, American comics artist (b. 1960)
• 2018 – Ivar Martinsen, Norwegian speed skater (b. 1920)
• 2018 – José María Hurtado Ruiz-Tagle, Chilean politician (b. 1945)
• 2019 – Donald L. Tucker, American politician (b. 1935)