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Today in History ~ September 24
Events0622 - Mohammed's Hegira [H]
0787 - 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor
1625 - Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
1657 - 1st autopsy & coroner's jury verdict is recorded in state of Maryland
1683 - King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America
1732 - 21 homosexuals burned in South Horn
1742 - Faneuil Hall Opened to the Public
1789 - Congress passed the First Judiciary Act, which provided for an Attorney General and creates a six-person Supreme Court. President George Washington appoints John Jay the 1st Chief Justice [H]
1845 - 1st baseball team is organized.
1852 - Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st dirigible flight
1853 - 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt).
1862 - Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
1864 - Battle of Pilot Knob (Fort Davidson), Missouri
1865 - James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks.(San Fransico)
1869 - Black Friday; thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.
1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
1890 - Wilford Woodruff, Pres of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching & practice of polygamy should be abandoned. [H]
1895 - 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months).
1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt signed a bill designating Devils Tower, a natural rock formation, as the country's first National Monument.
1906 - Victor Herbert's musical "Red Mill," premieres in NYC
1908 - The first factory-built Ford Model T was completed
1924 - Boston, Massachusetts opens its airport
1929 - Lt. James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first all-instrument flight including a "blind" takeoff and landing.
1930 - G Kaufman & M Hart's "Once in a Lifetime," premieres in NY
1930 - Noel Coward's "Private Lives," premieres in London
1934 - 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium. The Yankees lost to the Boston Red Sox, 5-0.
1940 - Luftwaffe bombs Spitfire factory in Southampton
1941 - Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
1942 - As World War II raged, Glenn Miller ended his long running radio show and announced he was going into the Army.
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk
1948 - Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Wash DC
1950 - "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel
1954 - Tonight Show premieres on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
1955 - Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver. The illness didn't prevent Eisenhower from being re-elected to a second term the following year.
1956 - 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland)
1957 - Federal troops were sent to Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine Black students at their newly integrated Central High School.
1957 - The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, beating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.
1959 - President Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev met at Camp David, Md.
1960 - USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Va.
1962 - US Circuit Court of Appeals orders James Meredith admitted to U of Miss
1963 - The U.S. Senate ratified a treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union limiting nuclear testing.
1964 - "Munsters" premieres on TV
1968 - "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV on a Tuesday night.
1971 - 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
1971 - A game warden is reported missing
1973 - Guinea-Bissau Declared Independence
1976 - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. (She was released after 22 months when President Carter granted her clemency.)
1979 - CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service
1979 - Russian ice skaters Protopopov & Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland
1980 - Iraqi troops cross Iran's border, encircling Abadan
1981 - Four Armenian gunmen seized the Turkish consulate in Paris, holding 60 hostages for 15 hours before surrendering.
1982 - US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
1986 - Congress adopted the rose as the national flower.
1990 - East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact
1990 - Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
1990 - West German Pres Richard von Weizaecker signs reunification treaty
1991 - Kidnappers in Lebanon freed British hostage Jack Mann after holding him captive for more than two years.
1993 - In an address at the U.N., South African black leader Nelson Mandela called for the lifting of remaining international economic sanctions against South Africa.
1993 - 1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord
1993 - Imelda Marcos sentenced to eighteen years imprisonment in the Philippines after being found guilty on charges of widespread corruption.
1993 - Norodom Sihanouk was reinstalled as King of Cambodia
1994 - A firefight erupted between U.S. Marines and a group of armed Haitians outside a police station in the northern coastal city of Cap-Haitien. Ten of the Haitians were killed.
1994 - It was reported that CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames had exposed 55 secret U.S. and allied operations to the Soviet Union and Russia.
1996 - The United States, represented by President Clinton, and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
1996 - Israel opened a second entrance to a tunnel used by archeologists at the Temple Mount, sacred to Muslims as well as Jews. The action sparked deadly rioting.
1996 - Stephen King releases two books at once
1997 - Following the slayings of hundreds of civilians in a series of incidents believed linked to upcoming elections and the long though sporatically fought civil war, the military wing of Algeria's principle Islamic opposition group called for a truce and ordered its guerrillas to "stop combat operations."
1998 - Hurricane Georges was charging toward the Florida Keys, after killing hundreds of people in the Caribbean.
1998 - Iran's foreign minister announced that Iran had dropped its 1989 call for the death of Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses" which many Muslims found blasphemous.
1998 - The government began releasing the new, harder-to-counterfeit $20 bill.
2000 - For the first time, citizens of the Yugoslav federation - Serbia and Montenegro - voted directly for president. (Supporters of opposition candidate Vojislav Kostunica declared victory the next day, but the election commission said a runoff was needed, prompting massive protests that toppled President Slobodan Milosevic.
2002 - Armed assailants killed 29 people and wounded 75 in an attack on a Hindu temple in Gandhinagar, India.
Birthdays Today
1583 - Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general
1667 - Jean-Louis Lully, composer
1717 - Horace Walpole, England, British horror writer (Cattle of Otranto)
1739 - Grigorij A Potemkin, Monarch of Tauris/friend of Catherine II
1748 - Philipp Meissner, composer
1755 - John Marshall (attorney: 4th Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court)
1870 - Georges Claude, inventor of the neon light.
1896 - F Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minn, author (This Side of Paradise, The Great Gatsby, Tender is the Night)
1898 - Howard W Florey, Aust, pathologist; purified penicillin (Nobel 1945)
1912 - Don Porter (actor: Our Miss Brooks, The Candidate, Bachelor in Paradise)
1915 - Larry Gates (actor: Backstairs at the White House, Death of a Gunfighter, The Sand Pebbles, Toys in the Attic)
1921 - Jim McKay (McManus) (Emmy Award-winning commentator: Coverage of the Munich Olympic Tragedy: ABC Special [1972]; sportscaster: ABC's Wide World of Sports; newspaper writer: The Baltimore Sun)
1922 - Cornell MacNeil, US, operatic baritone (La Traviata)
1924 - Sheila MacRae (Stephens) (comedienne: The Honeymooners, The Jackie Gleason Show; author: Mother of the Year; wife of singer, actor Gordon MacRae)
1931 - Anthony Newley (actor: Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, Roar of the Grease Paint, Oliver Twist, No Time to Die; singer: What Kind of Fool Am I?)
1936 - Jim Henson, Greenville Miss, muppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show)-18 Emmys, 17 Grammys, 4 Peabody Awards and 5 Ace Awards (National Cable Television Association) The famous voice of Kermit the Frog, died suddenly in May 1993...Kermit lives on. [H]
1940 - Barbara Allbut (singer: group: Angels: My Boyfriend's Back)
1941 - John Mackey (Pro Football Hall of Famer: Baltimore Colts: Super Bowl V; San Diego Chargers)
1941 - Linda McCartney (Eastman) (photographer: Rolling Stone magazine; singer: group: Wings: Silly Love Songs w/husband, Paul McCartney)
1942 - Gerry Marsden (singer: group: Gerry & The Pacemakers: Don't Let the Sun Catch You Crying, I'm the One, Ferry Cross the Mersey)
1946 - 'Mean' Joe (Charles) Greene (Pro Football Hall of Fame: Pittsburgh Steelers defensive tackle: 'The Steel Curtain': two-time NFL Defensive Player of the Year; Super Bowl IX, X, XIII, XIV; defensive line coach: Pittsburgh Steelers)
1948 - Eric Soderholm (baseball)
1948 - Phil Hartman (comedian, actor: Saturday Night Live, Greedy, Houseguest, Cheech and Chong's Next Movie)
1951 - Terry Metcalf (football)
1952 - Rod Gilbreath (baseball)
1956 - Hubie Brooks (baseball)
Famous deaths
0768 - Pippin III, the short, King of France, dies at 53
0786 - Al-Hadi, Arabic kalief of Islam (185-86), dies
1545 - Albrecht von Brandenburg, archbishop/monarch/founder, The Brandenburg Concerts of Mainz, dies at 55
1813 - Andre-Ernest-Modeste Gretry, composer, dies at 72
1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, US writer (Great Gatsby, Zelda), dies
1982 - Sarah Churchill, actress (Royal Wedding, Spring Meeting), dies at 67
1991 - Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as "Dr. Seuss," died of cancer in La Jolla, Calif., at age 87.
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