September 24
Today in America's Present Past
1493 | Explorer Christopher Columbus embarked on his second voyage to the New World.
1638 | Civil Rights: French King Louis XIV expels Jews from all French colonies in the Americas.
1688 | Explorer Louis-Armand de los Grace leaves Michillimakinac (Mackinac) to discover “a long river.”
1742 | Faneuil Hall, in Boston, Massachusetts, opened to the public.
1755 | SCOTUS: Chief Justice John Marshall was born.
1786 | Civil Rights: African American slave and poet Jupiter Hammon makes his "Address to the Negroes of the State of New York" speech advocating emancipation.
1789 | POTUS: George Washington nominated John Jay as the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
1789 POTUS: George Washington signs legislation creating the US Attorney General’s Office, which also sets the Supreme Court membership at six.
1825 | Activist and poet Frances Harper was born.
1869 | Black Friday on Wall Street as a financial panic starts.
1890 | Civil Rights: President of the Latter-day Saints, Woodruff, issues a manifesto advising members that the teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned.
1896 | Novelist Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born.
1929 | Pilot Jimmy Doolittle makes the first instrument-only guided flight.
1934 | Baseball Babe Ruth’s final appearance at Yankee Stadium.
1936 | Puppeteer Jim Henson was born.
1948 | Actor Phil Hartman was born.
1949 | Baseballer Ty Cobb weds Frances Cass.
1953 | Boxer Rocky Marciano defends his title with a KO of Roland LaStarza.
1953 | Actress Rita Hayworth weds Dick Haymes.
1955 | POTUS: Republican President Eisenhower suffers a heart attack.
1957 | Music: Elvis Presley released the single “Jailhouse Rock.”
1960 | U.S. Navy launches the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, the U.S.S. Enterprise.
1964 | Actress Jayne Mansfield weds Matt Climber.
1964 | TV: “The Munsters" debuted.
1968 | TV: “60 Minutes” debuted.
1979 | CompuServe begins offering a dial-up online information service to consumers, branded MicroNET.
1979 | Actor Ramón Rodríguez was born.
1991 | Author Dr. Seuss died.
1996 | POTUS: Democrat President Clinton signed the “Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.”
2007 | TV: “The Big Bang Theory” debuted.
2009 | G20 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, riots start.