What happened on September 24?

September 24 is day 267 of the year, day 268 in leap years. On September 24, 1959, Günter Grass published his novel The Tin Drum. In 1896, the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born. In 2002, Angela Merkel became leader of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.

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Events on September 24

1789 The German chemist Martin Heinrich Klaproth announces the discovery of the element uranium before the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences.
1869 The first Black Friday on Wall Street is a stock market crash caused by speculation on gold. Attempts by speculators James Fisk and Jay Gould to bring the gold price under their control lead to the collapse of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
1938 The American Don Budge becomes the first tennis player to win the so-called Grand Slam.
1940 At the Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin, the antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süß, directed by Veit Harlan, premieres in Germany.
1959 Günter Grass publishes his novel The Tin Drum.
1961 The Deutsche Oper Berlin opens with a performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni under the direction of Ferenc Fricsay.
1964 The Second Transit Agreement is concluded between the FRG and the GDR.
1977 During a mass demonstration against the Kalkar nuclear power plant in North Rhine-Westphalia, around 40,000 people take to the streets. The police deployment for this is regarded as the largest in the history of the Federal Republic of Germany.
1988 The doped Canadian Ben Johnson wins the gold medal in the 100-meter sprint at the Summer Olympics in Seoul and triggers a scandal.
1991 Nirvana's album Nevermind is released in the USA and becomes a milestone in music history.
2002 Angela Merkel becomes leader of the CDU/CSU parliamentary group.
2017 In the 19th election to the German Bundestag, the Alternative for Germany (AfD) enters the German Bundestag for the first time.

Born on September 24

1896 F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author
1911 Konstantin Ustinowitsch Tschernenko, Soviet politician
1930 Horst Sachtleben, German actor, director and voice actor
1930 John Watts Young, American astronaut
1951 Heinz Hoenig, German film actor
1961 Pierre Cosso, French actor and singer
1970 Karen Forkel, German track and field athlete
1980 John Arne Riise, Norwegian football player
1991 Nina Gummich, German actress
1991 Oriol Romeu, Spanish football player

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „24. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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