TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON – SEPT 24
1180 Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.
1683 Jews are expelled from all French possessions in America
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; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
1934 2500 fans see Babe Ruth’s farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
1948 Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Wash DC
1948 Honda Motor Company is founded by Soichiro Honda
1950 Operation Magic Carpet concludes after having transported 45,000 Yemenite Jews 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.
1961 “The Bullwinkle Show” premiered in prime time on NBC-TV. The show was originally on ABC in the afternoon as “Rocky and His Friends.”
1962 The University of Mississippi agrees to admit James Meredith as the first black university student, sparking more rioting.
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.”
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter
1979 CompuServe (CIS) offers one of the first online services to consumers; it will dominate among Internet service providers for consumers through the mid-1990s.
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 and the world’s other major nuclear powers signed a 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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