September 24
1788 : After having been dissolved, the French Parliament of Paris reassembles in triumph.
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.
1842 : Branwell Bronte, the brother of the Bronte sisters and the model for Hindley Earnshaw in Emily’s novel Wuthering Heights, dies of tuberculosis. Emily and Anne die the same year.
1862 : President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus against anyone suspected of being a Southern sympathizer.
1904 : Sixty-two die and 120 are injured in a head-on train collision in Tennessee.
1914 : In the Alsace-Lorraine area between France and Germany, the German Army captures St. Mihiel.
1915 : Bulgaria mobilizes troops on the Serbian border.
1929 : The first flight using only instruments is completed by U.S. Army pilot James Doolittle.
1930 : Noel Coward’s comedy Private Lives opens in London starring Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself.
1947 :The World Women’s Party meets for the first time since World War II.
1956 : The first transatlantic telephone cable system begins operationSeptember 24
1788 : After having been dissolved, the French Parliament of Paris reassembles in triumph.
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.
1842 : Branwell Bronte, the brother of the Bronte sisters and the model for Hindley Earnshaw in Emily’s novel Wuthering Heights, dies of tuberculosis. Emily and Anne die the same year.
1862 : President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus against anyone suspected of being a Southern sympathizer.
1904 : Sixty-two die and 120 are injured in a head-on train collision in Tennessee.
1914 : In the Alsace-Lorraine area between France and Germany, the German Army captures St. Mihiel.
1915 :Bulgaria mobilizes troops on the Serbian border.
1929 :The first flight using only instruments is completed by U.S. Army pilot James Doolittle.
1930 : Noel Coward’s comedy Private Lives opens in London starring Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself.
1947 : The World Women’s Party meets for the first time since World War II.
1956 :The first transatlantic telephone cable system begins operation.
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.
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.”
1970 : The Soviet Luna 16 lands, completing the first unmanned round trip to the moon.
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.
1993 : Sihanouk is reinstalled as king of Cambodia.
1996 : A comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty is 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.
2005 :Hurricane Rita, the 4th-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded, comes ashore in Texas causing extensive damage there and in Louisiana, which had been devastated by Hurricane Katrina less than a month earlier.
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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