TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 24
1789 – Congress passes the Judiciary Act of 1789, establishing a strong federal court system with the powers it needs to ensure the supremacy of the Constitution and federal law. The new Supreme Court will have a chief justice and five associate justices.
1862 – President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus against anyone suspected of being a Southern sympathizer.
1869 – Black Friday; Thousands of businessmen were financially ruined after a panic on Wall Street. The panic was caused by an attempt to corner the gold market by Jay Gould and James Fisk.
1908 – The first factory-built Ford Model T was completed which became affectionately known as the Tin Lizzie.
1925 – France has made a new offer to the United States over payment of it’s war debt of $4,000,000,000 stating it had not forgotten it’s debt to America but it can not pay the full debt without forcing economic misery on it’s people
1947 – The World Women’s Party meets for the first time since World War II.
1948 – Honda Motor Company is founded by Soichiro Honda
1950 – “Operation Magic Carpet” sees all Jews from Yemen move to Israel
1955 – U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver, CO.
1957 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black students entering its newly integrated high school.
1960 – The Enterprise, the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, is launched.
1962 – The University of Mississippi agrees to admit James Meredith as the first black university student, sparking more rioting.
1964 – Warren Commission report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which had occurred on November 22nd, 1963, in Dallas, Texas is given to President Lyndon B. Johnson.
1968 – “60 Minutes” premiered on CBS-TV.
1969 – The “Chicago Eight,” charged with conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intent to incite a riot, go on trial for their part in the mayhem during the 1968 Democratic Party National Convention in the “Windy City.”
1978 – More supermarkets are offering ATMs in the supermarket and consumers who have the service from their bank like the ability to avoid trips to the bank and be able to bank outside of normal banking hours.
1989 – Fighting has again broken out between Syrian and Christian Forces with mortars and machine guns ending a period of cease fire.
1995 – Three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities ended with the signing of a pact by Israel and the PLO.
1996 – The United States, represented by President Clinton, and the world’s other major nuclear powers signed a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
2001 – U.S. President George W. Bush froze the assets of 27 suspected terrorists and terrorist groups.
2009 – LRAD (Long Range Acoustic Device) “sonic cannon,” a non-lethal device that utilizes intense sound, is used in the United States for the first time, to disperse protestors at the G20 summit in Pittsburgh, Penn.
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