september 24th in history: what happened

At the mouth of the Tsemes River in 1838, the construction of a fortification began, around which the construction of the city of Novorossiysk unfolded.

In 1916, the Russian pilot Konstantin Artseulov for the first time deliberately performed a "screwscrew" and removed the aircraft from it.

On this day, but in 1964, "Proposals for the improvement of the Russian language" were published. If they were accepted, today we would write “daughter”, “jury”, “zaets”.

In 1970, the Luna-16 interplanetary station delivered lunar soil to Earth.

On September 24, the English writer, founder of the Gothic novel genre Horace Walpole (1717); the founder of Russian football and the Olympic movement in Russia Georgy Duperron (1877); the American astronaut who visited the moon John Young (1930); American puppeteer, actor, director, screenwriter, producer, creator of the Muppet show Jim Henson (1936).