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September 24th
622 ~ Muhammad completed his hegira from Mecca to Medina.
1755 ~ Birthday of John Marshall, the fourth and longest-serving Chief Justice of the American Supreme Court.
1890 ~ As a pre-condition to Utah being admitted to the U.S., the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Mormons) officially renounced polygamy.
1957 ~ President Eisenhower sent Army troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1976 ~ The Rhodesian Government agreed to introduce black majority rule to the country within two years.
1979 ~ Birthday of Sabrine Maui, Filipina Porn Actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Katja Kassin, German Porn Actress.
1988 ~ Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson beat Carl Lewis in the 100 Meters sprint at the Seoul Olympics. Mr. Johnson was later disqualified for using performance enhancing drugs.
1991 ~ Death of Dr. Seuss, Writer.
1996 ~ President Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
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September 25th
1683 ~ Birthday of Jean-Philippe Rameau, Composer.
1890 ~ Yosemite National Park established.
1897 ~ Birthday of William Faulkner, American writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1932 ~ Birthday of Glenn Gould, Pianist.
1950 ~ UN forces recaptured Seoul, the South Korean capital.
1957 ~ U.S. Army paratroopers ended the Little Rock school crisis.
1981 ~ Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the 102nd Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first woman to hold the office.
1983 ~ Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov averted World War III by refusing to accept - despite the (erroneous) alert given by the Soviet early warning system - that the U.S. had launched missiles against the USSR.
2008 ~ China launched its third human spaceflight, Shenzhou 7.
2009 ~ President Obama, Prime Minister Gordon Brown and President Sarkozy, in a joint TV appearance for a G-20 summit, accused Iran of building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.
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September 28th
1066 ~ William the Conqueror invaded England, landing at Pevensey, Sussex.
1725 ~ Birthday of Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer, founded Guinness.
1915 ~ Birthday of Ethel Rosenberg, Spy.
1924 ~ The first round-the-world flight completed. It took 175 days.
1928 ~ Alexander Fleming discovered what later became known as penicillin, for which he shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
1953 ~ Death of Edwin Hubble, Astronomer.
1976 ~ Stevie Wonder released Songs in the Key of Life.
1995 ~ Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat signed an accord to transfer much of the West Bank to the control of its Arab residents.
1988 ~ Death of Charles Addams, Cartoonist, creator of The Adams Family.
2000 ~ Death of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, fifteenth Prime Minister of Canada.
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1725 ~ Birthday of Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer, founded Guinness.
Damn, I'd forgotten it was St Arthur's Day.
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Originally Posted by Oldfart
1725 ~ Birthday of Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer, founded Guinness.
Damn, I'd forgotten it was St Arthur's Day.
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One too many Guinness'? *hick*
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September 29th
1547 ~ Birthday of Miguel de Cervantes, Author (Don Quixote).
1714 ~ George, Elector of Hanover, arrived in Greenwich to assume the British throne as King George I. (Thanks dm383!)
1758 ~ Birthday of Horatio Nelson, English icon.
1901 ~ Birthday of Enrico Fermi, Italian physicist. Awarded the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics.
1916 ~ John D. Rockefeller became the first billionaire.
1960 ~ Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev disrupted a meeting of the UN General Assembly.
1962 ~ Alouette 1, the first Canadian satellite was launched.
1978 ~ Death of Pope John Paul, who reigned just 33 days.
2004 ~ The asteroid 4179 Toutatis passed within 964,000 miles of Earth.
2008 ~ The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.
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October 1st
1903 ~ The visiting Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Boston Americans 7-3 in the first World Series game.
1905 ~ The Julliard School of Music was founded in New York City.
1939 ~ British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during a radio broadcast described the Soviet Union as ''a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma''.
1943 ~ The International War Crimes Tribunal in Nuremburg sentenced 12 Nazi leaders to death.
1949 ~ The People's Republic of China was formed with Mao Zedong as its head.
1961 ~ The New York Yankees' Roger Maris hit his 61st home run of the season.
1968 ~ The cult horror Night of the Living Dead" had its world premiere in Pittsburgh.
1971 ~ Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida. Eventually it would become the largest, man-made, tourist attraction in the world.
1976 ~ Birthday of Dora Venter, Hungarian Porn Actress.
1979 ~ The United States returned sovereignty of the Panama Canal to Panama.
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October 3rd
1873 ~ Birthday of Emily Post, etiquette advisor.
1900 ~ Birthday of Thomas Wolfe, American novelist.
1916 ~ Birthday of James Herriot, veterinarian, author.
1922 ~ Rebecca L. Felton, D-Ga., became the first woman to be seated in the U.S. Senate. She was appointed to serve out the remaining term of Sen. Thomas E. Watson.
1925 ~ Birthday of Gore Vidal, author.
1967 ~ Death of Woody Guthrie, folk musician.
1973 ~ Frank Robinson was named major league baseball's first black manager as he was put in charge of the Cleveland Indians.
1990 ~ The re-unification of Germany. East Germany ceased to exist.
1995 ~ A jury found O.J. Simpson not guilty of murder in the 1994 slayings of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman.
1997 ~ Attorney General Janet Reno said she had found no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.
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October 4th
1903 ~ Birthday of John Vincent Atanasoff, inventor of the digital electronic computer.
1924 ~ Birthday of Charlton Heston, Actor.
1941 ~ Birthday of Anne Rice, Author.
1943 ~ Birthday of H. Rap Brown, civil rights activist & murderer.
1957 ~ Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
1983 ~ The first Hooters restaurant opened in Clearwater, Florida.
1985 ~ Free Software Foundation founded.
1993 ~ Russian President Boris Yeltsin ordered the army to begin storming the Russian parliament building.
2002 ~ John Walker Lindh, the “American Taliban”, received a 20-year sentence.
2004 ~ The SpaceShipOne rocket plane broke through Earth's atmosphere for the second time in five days to capture a $10 million prize.
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