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- 0622 Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
- 0622 Prophet Muhammad completes his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
- 1493 Columbus' 2nd expedition to the New World
- 1621 First newspaper in England debuts.
- 1625 Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico
- 1664 The Netherlands surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
- 1742 Faneuil Hall opens to the public
- 1780 Benedict Arnold escapes to the British after his attempt to betray West Point.
- 1789 Congress creates the Post Office
- 1789 Congress' first Judiciary Act, Attorney General & Supreme Court
- 1789 The United States Post Office Department is established.
- 1789 The office of the Attorney General of the United States of America, and the United States Post Office Department are established.
- 1829 Russia & Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople
- 1838 Anti-Corn-Law League forms to repeal English Corn Law
- 1841 Sarawak obtained by Britain from Sultan of Brunei
- 1841 The Sultan of Brunei cedes Sarawak to Britain.
- 1845 The first baseball team is organized
- 1852 A new invention, the dirigible, is demonstrated
- 1852 The first airship is displayed.
- 1853 The first round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)
- 1862 Confederate Congress adopts confederacy seal
- 1865 James Cooke walks tightrope from Cliff House to Seal Rocks, SF
- 1869 "Black Friday": Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
- 1869 Black Friday; Wall St panic after Gould & Fisk attempt to corner gold
- 1869 The Black Friday Wall Street panic occurs when financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempt to corner the gold market.
- 1877 Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion
- 1897 A new double track steel arch bridge is completed by the Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge Company and the Niagara Falls International Bridge Company. The upper floor of the new structure is leased to the Grand Trunk Railway.
- 1903 Edmund Barton steps down as Prime Minister of Australia and is succeeded by Alfred Deakin.
- 1927 NHL's Toronto St Patricks become the Maple Leafs
- 1929 Lieutenant James H. (Jimmy) Doolittle pilots a biplane over Mitchel Field in New York to make the first all-instrument flight.
- 1929 Lt James H Doolittle guides a Consolidated N-Y-2 Biplane over Mitchell Field in NY in the first all-instrument flight
- 1934 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium
- 1935 Earl Bascom and Weldon Bascom produce the first rodeo ever held outdoors under electric lights at Columbia, Mississippi
- 1940 The Cdn. Navy received 6 former US Navy "4 stackers" destroyers and renames them HMCS Annapolis, Columbia,Niagra, St. Clair ST. Croix and St. Francis
- 1941 9 Allied govts pledged adherence to Atlantic Charter
- 1942 3,000 Tuczyn Jews are killed after resisting and escaping a Nazi attack. Only 15 survive.
- 1942 General Blamey assumes command of Allied Land Forces in New Guinea
- 1942 HMS SOMALI lost north of Iceland after being stuck by 1 torpedo from German U.703 on 20th in Greenland Sea.floundered while being towed by 'Ashanti', went down in bad weather, 45 men lost
- 1946 Cathay Pacific Airways is founded in Hong Kong
- 1947 Majestic 12 is allegedly established by secret executive order of President Harry Truman
- 1948 Mildred Gillars, charged with treason as Nazi radio propagandist Axis Sally, pleads innocent in Washington, DC.
- 1948 The Honda Motor Company is founded.
- 1949 Visitor posting - Jana B was born! September 24, 1949
- 1950 "Operation Magic Carpet"-All Jews from Yemen move to Israel
- 1950 Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A Blue moon (in the astronomical sense) is seen as far away as Europe.
- 1952 Underwater volcano explodes under research vessel Kaiyo-maru-5
- 1954 Tonight Show premiers on NBC (Johnny takes over 8 years later)
- 1955 Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
- 1957 Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
- 1957 Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools
- 1958 The first welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Ia
- 1960 Internationl Development Assn (UN agency) comes into existence
- 1962 US Circuit Court of Appeals orders Meredith admitted to U of Miss
- 1962 United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
- 1963 Senate ratifies treaty with Britain & USSR limit nuclear testing
- 1964 "The Munsters" premiers
- 1964 Number one hit on UK music charts - Herman's Hermits - I'm Into Something Good
- 1964 Ringo forms Brikley Building Company Ltd
- 1964 The Munsters, starring Fred Gwynne, Yvonne DeCarlo, and Al Lewis, makes its TV premiere.
- 1968 "60 Minutes" premiers
- 1968 Swaziland joins the United Nations.
- 1968 The Mod Squad premieres on television.
- 1969 Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins
- 1970 The first Automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16
- 1972 Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22
- 1973 Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
- 1973 Portuguese Guinea (Guinea-Bissau) declares independence
- 1975 Ian Hunter actor (Sir Richard-Robin Hood), dies at 75
- 1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by Pres Carter
- 1977 Ken Hinton of CFL British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards
- 1979 CompuServe system started
- 1981 Patsy Kelly actress (Brigid Murphy-Cop & the Kid), dies at 71
- 1982 Visitor posting - Harry Cocks born in Ohio
- 1982 Sarah Churchill actress, dies at 67
- 1982 Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26
- 1982 US, Italian & French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon
- 1983 Number one hit on UK music charts - Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
- 1983 Visitor posting - Connie A. Hall & John C. Maxey united in Holy Matrimony in Herrin, Illinois - USA
- 1983 Visitor posting - September 24 1983 Agnes Kollar was born in Gyor, HUNGARY
- 1984 Neil Hamilton actor (Com Gordon-Batman), dies of asthma at 85
- 1985 Apollo Computer Inc. lays off 300 employees
- 1985 Fastest English Channel crossing by a relay team set (15h 30m)
- 1988 Barbara C Harris of Mass, elected first woman Episcopal bishop
- 1988 Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec
- 1988 Number one hit on UK music charts - Hollies - He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother
- 1988 Summer Olympics: Ben Johnson beats Carl Lewis and Linford Christie in 100 metres sprinting in a record time of 9.79 seconds. (Johnson would later be disqualified in a high profile case of doping in sports.)
- 1990 Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
- 1990 South African president F.W. de Klerk meets Pres Bush in Wash DC
- 1990 Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market
- 1991 "Good & Evil" & "Sibs" premiers on ABC TV
- 1991 American rock band Nirvana release their second album and major label debut "Nevermind"
- 1991 Visitor posting - Brittany Cessna was born. - USA
- 1991 Doogie Howser loses his virginity (only on TV would this be an event)
- 1991 Theodore Geisel, better known as children's author Doctor Seuss, dies of cancer in La Jolla, CA, at age 87.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Serena Tereas Jennings born in San Diego, California. - USA
- 1994 National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
- 1997 Visitor posting - Gracie Scherbing was born in Minnesota - 9/24/1997 - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - Kanan Gupta born in Delhi - India
- 1998 The U.S. Treasury began circulating the newly-redesigned $20 bill.
- 2005 Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
- 2007 Iranian Presidednt Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Karamba Bayo started college study on columbus state
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