TODAY’S HISTORY LESSON: SEPTEMBER 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
1788 After having been dissolved, the French Parliament of Paris reassembles in triumph.
1789 The U.S. Congress passed the First Judiciary Act. The act provided for an Attorney General and a lower federal courts.
1869 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.
1914 In the Alsace-Lorraine area between France and Germany, the German Army captures St. Mihiel.
1948 Honda Motor Company is founded by Soichiro Honda
1950 Operation Magic Carpet concludes after having transported 45,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel
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.”
1968 “60 Minutes” premieres 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.”
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 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty signed by representatives of 71 nations at the UN; at present, five key nations have signed but not ratified it and three others have not signed.
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.
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
