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Events on the 24th of September in history

Events
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24 Sep 0312 Start of Imperial Indication
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24 Sep 0366 Liberius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
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24 Sep 0673 Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
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24 Sep 0787 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor
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24 Sep 1180 Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
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24 Sep 1493 Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World
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24 Sep 1625 Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
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24 Sep 1629 Jacques Specx appointed Governor-General of Dutch-Indies
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24 Sep 1645 Battle of Rowton Heath, Parliamentarian victory over a Royalist army commanded in person by King Charles
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24 Sep 1664 Dutch Fort Orange (Albany NY) surrenders to English
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24 Sep 1664 The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
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24 Sep 1674 Second Tantrik Coronation of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj.
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24 Sep 1683 King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America
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24 Sep 1683 Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America
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24 Sep 1688 France declares war on German
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24 Sep 1732 21 homosexuality burned in South Horn
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24 Sep 1742 Faneuil Hall opens to the public
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24 Sep 1776 1st St. Leger horesrace held at Doncaster
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24 Sep 1776 St. Leger horse race run for 1st time
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24 Sep 1780 Benedict Arnold flees to British Army lines when the arrest of British Major John André exposes Arnold's plot to surrender West Point.
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24 Sep 1789 Federal Judiciary Act is passed and creates a six-person Supreme Court
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24 Sep 1789 President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice
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24 Sep 1789 US Attorney General Office is created
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24 Sep 1789 The United States Congress passes the Judiciary Act which creates 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.
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24 Sep 1789 Congress creates the Post Office
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24 Sep 1789 Congress' 1st Judiciary Act, Attorney General & Supreme Court
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24 Sep 1829 Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
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24 Sep 1830 Belgian Revolution: A revolutionary committee of notables forms the Provisional Government of Belgium.
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24 Sep 1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
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24 Sep 1841 Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei (James Brooke appointed Rajah)
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24 Sep 1841 The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to the United Kingdom.
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24 Sep 1841 Sarawak obtained by Britain from Sultan of Brunei
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24 Sep 1845 1st baseball team is organized
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24 Sep 1846 Mexican–American War: General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey.
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24 Sep 1850 Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England
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24 Sep 1852 Henri Giffard, a French engineer, makes 1st dirigible flight
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24 Sep 1852 The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
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24 Sep 1852 A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated
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24 Sep 1853 France annexes Caledonia
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24 Sep 1853 Northern Daily Times, 1st provincial daily newspaper, starts in London
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24 Sep 1853 Admiral Despointes formally takes possession of New Caledonia in the name of France.
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24 Sep 1853 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
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24 Sep 1862 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
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24 Sep 1864 Battle of Pilot Knob, Missouri
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24 Sep 1864 Invasion of MO by Price
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24 Sep 1865 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, San Francisco
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24 Sep 1869 Black Friday; Wall St. panic after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner gold
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24 Sep 1869 "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
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24 Sep 1873 Establishment of "Satyashodhak Samaj", (Truth-seeker Movement) at Pune, Maharashtra, India by Mahatma Jyotirao Phule.
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24 Sep 1877 Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
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24 Sep 1881 Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch
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24 Sep 1883 National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky
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24 Sep 1885 5 German warships depart to Zanzibar
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24 Sep 1889 Alexander Dey patents dial time recorder
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24 Sep 1890 President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned
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24 Sep 1890 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
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24 Sep 1895 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)
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24 Sep 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Red Circle" (BG)
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24 Sep 1902 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of The Red Circle" (BG)
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24 Sep 1903 Alfred Deakin succeeds Edmund Baston as Australia Premier
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24 Sep 1903 Bill Bradley becomes 1st Cleveland baseball player (Cleveland Naps) to hit for cycle
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24 Sep 1906 U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation's first National Monument.
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24 Sep 1906 St Louis Card Stony McGlynn no-hits Dodgers, 1-1 in 7 inning game
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24 Sep 1908 Robert B Rhoads becomes 1st Cleveland pitcher (Cleveland Naps) to toss a no-hit game, Cleveland 2, Boston 1
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24 Sep 1911 His Majesty's Airship No. 1, Britain's first rigid airship, is wrecked by strong winds before her maiden flight at Barrow-in-Furness.
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24 Sep 1914 World War I: The Siege of Przemyśl (present-day Poland) begins.
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24 Sep 1919 Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at 28 off of Yankee Bob Shawkey
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24 Sep 1922 Neurenberg fusion Congress USDP-SPD; picks Karl Kautsky
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24 Sep 1922 Roger Hornsby sets the NL HR mark at 42
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24 Sep 1923 Premiere of 1st celluloid film "Das Leben auf dem Dorfe" (Berlin)
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24 Sep 1924 Boston, Massachusetts opens its airport
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24 Sep 1926 Cardinals clinch NL pennant by beating Giants 6-4
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24 Sep 1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs
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24 Sep 1927 Yanks set record of 106 victories
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24 Sep 1929 Yanks Tom Zachary ends season 12-0
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24 Sep 1929 Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the 1st all-instrument flight
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24 Sep 1930 Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in 1st NFL game played under floodlights
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24 Sep 1932 New York Gov Franklin D Roosevelt visits LA
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24 Sep 1932 Gandhi and Dr. B. R. Ambedkar agree to the Poona Pact, which reserved seats in the Indian provincial legislatures for the "Depressed Classes" (Untouchables).
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24 Sep 1934 Idle Detroit wins pennant, as Red Sox beat Yankees 5-0
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24 Sep 1934 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
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24 Sep 1935 Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
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24 Sep 1938 Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title
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24 Sep 1938 Don Budge becomes 1st tennis player to grand slam
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24 Sep 1940 Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career HR
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24 Sep 1941 9 Allied Governments pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter
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24 Sep 1941 Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
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24 Sep 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Smolensk
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24 Sep 1946 Yanks set season attendance record of 2,309,029 besting 1929 Cubs
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24 Sep 1946 Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong.
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24 Sep 1946 Clark Clifford and George Elsey, military advisers to U.S. President Harry S. Truman, present him with a top-secret report on the Soviet Union that first recommends the containment policy.
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24 Sep 1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Washington DC
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24 Sep 1948 Yanks, Boston and Cleveland are tied for 1st place in AL (91-56)
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24 Sep 1948 The Honda Motor Company is founded.
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24 Sep 1950 "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel
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24 Sep 1950 Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon is seen as far away as Europe.
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24 Sep 1951 Industrial estate at Harlow New Town UK opens
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24 Sep 1952 Dutch Minister Dark sentences war criminal W Lages to death
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24 Sep 1952 Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
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24 Sep 1953 "Take a Giant Step, " opens on Broadway
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24 Sep 1953 Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
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24 Sep 1953 "Take a Giant Step," opens on Broadway
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24 Sep 1954 Tonight Show premiers on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
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24 Sep 1954 Yanks tie a record, 3 of their pinch hitters strike out in 1 inning
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24 Sep 1955 "Catch a Star" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 23 performances
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24 Sep 1955 President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
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24 Sep 1955 Washington Senators lose their 99th and 100th games of season
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24 Sep 1956 1st trans atlantic telephone cable in use (Newfoundland-Scotland)
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24 Sep 1957 Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pirates 2-0
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24 Sep 1957 Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
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24 Sep 1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
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24 Sep 1957 Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
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24 Sep 1958 1st welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed in Urbandale, Iowa
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24 Sep 1960 International Development Association (UN agency) comes into existence
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24 Sep 1960 USS Enterprise, 1st nuclear power aircraft carrier, launches
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24 Sep 1960 USS Enterprise, the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
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24 Sep 1960 1st nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise)
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24 Sep 1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Sacramento Valley Golf Open
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24 Sep 1962 KWSU TV channel 10 in Pullman, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting
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24 Sep 1962 US Circuit Court of Appeals orders James Meredith admitted to University of Mississippi
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24 Sep 1962 United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
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24 Sep 1963 Idle Dodgers clinch their 2nd LA pennant as Cubs beat Cards
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24 Sep 1963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain and the USSR limit nuclear testing
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24 Sep 1964 1st Minuteman II ICBM was tested
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24 Sep 1964 Willi Stoph succeeds Otto Great as Premier of German DR
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24 Sep 1964 "The Munsters" premiers
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24 Sep 1964 Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd
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24 Sep 1965 Belgium Victor Leemans elected Chairman of European Parliament
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24 Sep 1965 Saudi-Arabian and Egyptian accord about Yemen
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24 Sep 1965 Stefan Stefanopoulos forms Greek government
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24 Sep 1967 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational
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24 Sep 1967 Cards Jim Bakken kicks 7 field goals vs Steelers
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24 Sep 1968 "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV
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24 Sep 1968 New York Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack
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24 Sep 1968 60 Minutes debuts on CBS.
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24 Sep 1968 Swaziland joins the United Nations.
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24 Sep 1968 "60 Minutes" premiers
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24 Sep 1968 "That's Life" premiers-A Broadway musical type TV show
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24 Sep 1969 1st Elvis convention, 2500 fans attend in Cincinnati
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24 Sep 1969 New York Mets clinch NL East pennant
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24 Sep 1969 Ton Duc Thang elected President of North Vietnam
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24 Sep 1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Democratic National Convention) begins
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24 Sep 1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins
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24 Sep 1970 Soviet Luna 16 lands on earth after 1st unmanned round trip to moon
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24 Sep 1970 1st Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
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24 Sep 1971 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
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24 Sep 1971 Eyskens-Cools disbands Belgium parliament
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24 Sep 1971 Houston Astros beat SD Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings
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24 Sep 1972 Jack Tatum, Oakland, returns a fumble 104 yards vs. Green Bay (rec)
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24 Sep 1972 New York Jet Joe Namath passes for 6 touchdowns vs. Baltimore Colt (44-34)
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24 Sep 1972 Japan Airlines Flight 472, operated Douglas DC-8-53 landed at Juhu Aerodrome instead of Santacruz Airport in Bombay, India.
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24 Sep 1972 Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22
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24 Sep 1973 Guinea-Bissau declares independence
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24 Sep 1973 St. Louis Cardinals Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking 7 field goals
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24 Sep 1973 Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
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24 Sep 1973 Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence
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24 Sep 1974 Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits
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24 Sep 1974 Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title
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24 Sep 1974 Al Kaline gets his 3,000th career hit
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24 Sep 1975 Dougal Haston and Doug Scott on the Southwest Face expedition become the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest by any of its faces.
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24 Sep 1976 "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 5959 performances
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24 Sep 1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by President Carter
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24 Sep 1977 "Estrada" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 7 performances
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24 Sep 1977 1st broadcast of "Love Boat" on ABC-TV
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24 Sep 1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards
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24 Sep 1978 Donna Caponi Young / Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Ping Team Golf Classic
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24 Sep 1978 Dutch women hockey team wins world championship
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24 Sep 1978 Ron Guidry beats Cleveland 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74
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24 Sep 1979 CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service
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24 Sep 1979 Ghana adopts constitution
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24 Sep 1979 Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time
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24 Sep 1979 Russian ice skaters Protopopov and Beloussova ask for asylum in Switzerland
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24 Sep 1979 CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service.
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24 Sep 1979 CompuServe system started
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24 Sep 1980 Braves join every NL team with 1,000,000+ attendance for this season
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24 Sep 1981 Enterprise Radio (all sports) resigns air
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24 Sep 1982 The Wimpy Operation, first act of resistance against Israeli troops in Beirut
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24 Sep 1982 Tennis great Bj
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24 Sep 1982 US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
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24 Sep 1983 Braves Dale Murphy is 6th to hit 30 HRs and steal 30 bases in season
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24 Sep 1984 Cubs clinch NL East title
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24 Sep 1984 Paul McCartney release "No More Lonely Nights"
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24 Sep 1985 Expos Andre Dawson joins Willey McCovey to hit 2 HRs in an inn twice
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24 Sep 1985 Apollo Computer Inc. lays off 300 employees
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24 Sep 1985 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
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24 Sep 1985 Montreal Expo Andre Dawson is 9th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (5th)
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24 Sep 1988 Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 seconds)
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24 Sep 1988 Dave Stieb has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in the 9th
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24 Sep 1988 Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected 1st woman Episcopal bishop
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24 Sep 1988 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec
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24 Sep 1988 Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets the heptathlon woman's record (7,291)
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24 Sep 1989 28th Ryder Cup: US and Europe draw, 14-14 at The Belfry, England
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24 Sep 1989 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Nippon Travel-MBS Golf Classic
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24 Sep 1990 East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact
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24 Sep 1990 South African President F W de Klerk meets President Bush in Washington DC
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24 Sep 1990 West German President Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
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24 Sep 1990 Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn.
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24 Sep 1990 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
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24 Sep 1991 Deion Sanders, left Braves July 31 to report to NFL Falcons, returns
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24 Sep 1991 "Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premiers on ABC TV
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24 Sep 1991 Doogie Howser loses his virginity
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24 Sep 1991 Robin Yount is 37th to hit 2,000 singles
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24 Sep 1992 John Jaha ties record of 11 teammates to steal 10 bases (Brewers)
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24 Sep 1992 Scott Stevens is named 5th Captain in New Jersey Devils history
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24 Sep 1993 1st Israeli killed by Islamics after PLO signs peace accord
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24 Sep 1993 Beverly Hills 90210 star Shannen Doherty (Brenda) weds Ashley Hamilton
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24 Sep 1993 Norodom Sihanouk again installed as King of Cambodia
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24 Sep 1993 The Cambodian monarchy is restored, with Norodom Sihanouk as king.
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24 Sep 1994 Parliamentary election in Ukraine
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24 Sep 1995 Annika Sorenstam wins LPGA GHP Heartland Golf Classic
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24 Sep 1995 Mt Ruapehu Volcano (North Island, New Zealand) erupts
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24 Sep 1996 Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
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24 Sep 1997 31st Country Music Association Award
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24 Sep 2005 Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
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24 Sep 2007 Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years.
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24 Sep 2009 The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of LRAD in U.S. history.
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24 Sep 2013 A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing more than 327 people.
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24 Sep 2014 The Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM), a Mars orbiter launched into Earth orbit by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), successfully inserted into orbit of Mars.
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