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“Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.”
~ Niccolò Machiavelli
Wikiquote (Niccolò Machiavelli (May 3, 1469 – June 21, 1527) was an Italian historian, politician, diplomat, philosopher, humanist and writer based in Florence during the Renaissance.) Image: © DivineWhirlwind
September 24th, 622
Muhammad
622 - Prophet Muhammad completes his hijra from Mecca to Medina.
Wikipedia The Prophet's Mosque in Medina, Saudi Arabia, is a holy site for Muslims
● Islamic Depictions of Muhammad: A depiction of Muhammad (with veiled face) advancing on Mecca from Siyer-i Nebi, a 16th-century Ottoman manuscript. The angels Gabriel, Michael, Israfil and Azrail, are also shown.
● Muhammed re-dedicating the Black Stone at the Kaaba. From Jami' al-Tavarikh ("The Universal History" or "Compendium of Chronicles") written by Rashid Al-Din and illustrated in Tabriz, Persia, c. 1315. (Library of the University of Edinburgh)
● An angel presenting Muhammad with a city (presumably Mecca). Illustration of the Miraj-name, Tabriz, c. 1360-70. (Topkapi Palace Library, Istanbul)
● Muhammad visits Paradise during his Night Journey. Illustration of the Miraj-Nama, Persian, 15th century. (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris)
● Muhammad (faceless) at the Kaba in Mecca. Ottoman, 1595. (Topkapi Museum, Istanbul)
● During his Night Journey, Muhammad visits hell, where he views women being hung by their hair and tormented by a demon for the sin of showing their hair in public. Illustration of the Miraj-Nama, Persian, 15th century. (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris)
● Arab illustration of Mohammed preaching from a minbar to the earliest converts. Al-Bîrûnî, al-âthâr al-bâqiya. (Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Manuscrits Arabe 1489 fol. 5v), credit Religion Facts.
September 24th, 1180
Byzantine Empire (East Roman Empire):
1180 - Manuel I Komnenos last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies - the Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
Wikipedia Image: The Baptism of Constantine painted by Raphael's pupils (1520–1524, fresco, Vatican City, Apostolic Palace); Mural of Saints Cyril and Methodius, 19th century, Troyan Monastery, Bulgaria; Justinian I depicted on one of the famous mosaics of the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna; The Greek fire was first used by the Byzantine Navy during the Byzantine-Arab Wars (from the Madrid Skylitzes, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid); Alexios I, founder of the Komnenos dynasty.
September 24th, 1645
English Civil War:
Battle of Rowton Heath; Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles.
Wikipedia Painting: English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers);
John Milton publishes Areopagitica;
Battle of Naseby, victory of the Parliamentarian New Model Army;
Battle of Marston Moor, 1644;
"Cromwell at Dunbar", by Andrew Carrick Gow; Oliver Cromwell; King Charles I, painted by Van Dyck;
"And when did you last see your father?" by William Frederick Yeames.
September 24th, 1780
American Revolutionary War:
1780 - Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
Wikipedia Paintings: Washington Crossing the Delaware, by Emanuel Leutz; Battle of the Chesapeake, French (left) and British (right) lines; Battle of Bunker Hill, The Death of General Warren at the Battle of Bunker Hill by John Trumbull; The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 13, 1782, by John Singleton Copley; Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau at Yorktown, 1781; "The surrender at Saratoga" shows General Daniel Morgan in front of a French de Vallière 4-pounder; Surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown by (John Trumbull, 1797).
Benedict Arnold American Hero and Traitor.
September 24th, 1869
"Black Friday:" Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the United States Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
Wikipedia Image: Photograph of the black board in the New York Gold Room, September 24, 1869, showing the collapse of the price of gold. Handwritten caption by James A. Garfield indicates it was used as evidence before the Committee of Banking & Currency during hearings in 1870.
September 24th, 1906
United States President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's National Monument.
Wikipedia Photo: Devils Tower, credit John G. Wilbanks
September 24th, 1914
World War I:
1914 - Siege of Przemyśl; (present-day Poland) begins.
Wikipedia Photo: Trenches on the Western Front; a British Mark IV Tank crossing a trench; Royal Navy battleship HMS Irresistible sinking after striking a mine at the Battle of the Dardanelles; a Vickers machine gun crew with gas masks, and German Albatros D.III biplanes. National Archives and Records Administration.
September 24th, 1948
Honda Motor Company is founded.
Wikipedia Photo: Honda Motor Company
September 24th, 1957
Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
Wikipedia Photo: Camp Nou
September 24th, 1960
USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier is launched>.
Wikipedia Photo: Stern view of the worlds first nuclear powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise CVN-65 seen in the Atlantic ocean. Maritime Quest.
September 24th, 1968
60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
Wikipedia Image: 60 Minutes News Magazine
September 24th, 1979
CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
Wikipedia Image: Electronic mail service
September 24th, 1990
Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.
Wikipedia Image: Saturn's Great White Spot, planet-wide storm tears across Saturn's northern hemisphere, European Southern Observatory.
September 24th, 2005
2005 - Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
Wikipedia Image: Hurricane Andrew sequence, NASA ● Hurricane Mitch at peak intensity (formed October 22, 1998 - Dissipated November 5, 1998) ● Hurricane Katrina taken on August 28, 2005, at 11:45 AM EDT by NOAA when the storm was a Category Five hurricane ● Hurricane Jeanne September 23, 2004, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) ● PDC Global Hazards Atlas displaying 3 hour precipitation accumulation, typhoon Evan (04P), with JTWC positions, segments, and winds...over the South Pacific Ocean ● Satellite imagery provided by NOAA and taken by the Japan Meteorological Agency's MTSAT weather satellite shows Typhoon Roke as it approaches Japan, September 20, 2011. Over 1.3 million ordered to evacuate in Japan ahead of Typhoon Roke.
September 24th, 2013
Earthquake:
2013 - Pakistan earthquake; a 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing more than 327 people.
Wikipedia Image: Preliminary Determination of Epicenters / Aleppo Syria; Anchorage, Alaska - March 28, 1964 Prince William Sound USA earthquake and tsunami; 8.9 Mega Earthquake Strikes Japan; Tsunami Swirls Japan's Ibaraki Prefecture March 12 2011. credit NOAA / NGDC, NOAA National Geophysical Data Center, USGS, National Geographics. Chi-Chi earthquake, Taiwan.
September 24th, 2015
Mina stampede; At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.
Wikipedia Image: Mina stampede; At least 1,100 people are killed and another 934 wounded after a stampede during the Hajj in Saudi Arabia.