On this day in history
September 24
HinduBuddhistEgyptianScience
YahrzeitsHebrew-calendar remembrances
The Hebrew anniversary of a passing drifts against the civil calendar; these fall on September 24 this year.
- R. Shmuel Schneersohn (Rebbe Maharash of Lubavitch)d. 1882 CE
Fourth Rebbe of Chabad-Lubavitch
Trace this life →
- 1916 CEHindu · born
Swami Chidananda Saraswati, who succeeded Sivananda as head of the Divine Life Society in Rishikesh, was born on this day in 1916.
- 1979 CEBuddhist · died
Edward Conze, the German-British scholar who rendered much of the Prajñāpāramitā (Perfection of Wisdom) literature into English, died in England.
- 1996 CEEgyptian · died
Iorwerth Eiddon Stephen Edwards, the British Egyptologist whose book 'The Pyramids of Egypt' guided generations of readers, died.
- 1852 CEScience
Henri Giffard flew a steam-powered, steerable airship from Paris across some twenty-seven kilometres, the first powered and controllable flight of a lighter-than-air craft.