September 24 is:
National Punctuation Day
National Cherries Jubilee Day
Cherries ‘Jubilee’ was credited by Chef Auguste Escoffier, who created the dish for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897.
Birthday of John Marshall (September 24, 1755), American lawyer, jurist, fourth chief justice of the Supreme Court, founder of the American system of constitutional law.
1789 – The United States Congress passed the Judiciary Act which created 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.
During the Mexican–American War, General Zachary Taylor captured Monterrey on September 24, 1846.
In 1869, financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market, sending Wall Street into a panic and leaving thousands of investors in financial ruin.
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounced polygamy in 1890.
Birthday of F. Scott Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896), the famed American novelist, best known for his novels depicting the flamboyance and excess of the Jazz Age—a term which he coined. Wrote This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned, The Great Gatsby (his most famous), and Tender Is the Night. A fifth, unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon, was published posthumously.
The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field in 1957 before moving to Los Angeles for the next season.
U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaimed Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument in 1906.
Tonight Show premiered on NBC in 1954. The Tonight Show has been hosted by Steve Allen (1954–57), Jack Paar (1957–62), Johnny Carson (1962–92), Jay Leno (1992–2009, 2010–14), Conan O’Brien (2009–10), and Jimmy Fallon (2014–present).
1979 – CompuServe launched the first consumer internet service, which featured the first public electronic mail service in 1979.
Hurricane Rita made landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana in 2005.
The same team, Pittsburgh Pirates, played as the opponent in the closing games for the Brooklyn Dodgers (Ebbetts Field) and the New York Giants (Polo Grounds) before the New York teams moved to the west coast.
Pittsburgh lost its game to Brooklyn, 2-0. The dismayed Dodgers fans showed their displeasure as attendance was 6,702. (Capacity 32,000)
However, on September 29, the Pirates defeated the Giants, 9-1.
The long time Giants fans also were upset as the attendance that day was 11,606.
(Capacity 55,000 for baseball)
To my knowledge the only remaining living member of that Pirate team in 1957 (Bill Mazeroski) played in both of those games. (And yes, my favorite, Roberto Clemente also played in both of those games, but he died tragically on Dec. 31, 1972)