On This Day:
Wednesday September 24, 2014 This is the 267th day of the year, with 98 days remaining in 2014. Fact of the Day: Kansas Kansas is the geographic center of the 48 states - marked in a pasture in Lebanon, by the Nebraska border. Forty miles away is the magnetic/geodetic center of North America - the reference point for all land survey in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
Holidays Guinea-Bissau: Independence Day.
South Africa: National Heritage Day.
Islam: Awwal Muharram.
Dominican Republic: Feast of Our Lady Mary.
Ghana: Third Republic Day.
New Caledonia: Territorial Day.
Peru: Feast of Our Lady Mary.
Trinidad and Tobago: Republic Day.
Venezuela: Day of the Public Functionary.
Rwanda: Government Day/National Assembly Day/Referendum Day/Kamarampaka Day.
Events 622 - Mohammed and his followers commenced the Hegira, or "flight," to Medina, where he founded Islam.
1742 - Faneuil Hall opened in Boston.
1788 - French Parliament of Paris reassembled after having been dissolved.
1789 - Congress passed the first Judiciary Act, which provided for an attorney general and a Supreme Court.
1852 - French engineer Henri Giffard made the first flight in an airship that was powered by a steam engine.
1869 - Wall Street panic took place when financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.
1906 - President Theodore Roosevelt signed a bill designating Devils Tower, a natural rock formation in the Black Hills of Wyoming, as the country's first National Monument.
1914 - German army captured St. Mihiel.
1929 - First all-instrument flight took place; it was piloted by U.S. Army Lieutenant James H. Doolittle.
1930 - Noel Coward's comedy "Private Lives" opened in London.
1960 - USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Virginia.
1962 - University of Mississippi agreed to admit James Meredith as the first black university student.
1963 - U.S. Senate ratified a treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union limiting nuclear testing and development.
1964 - "The Munsters" premiered on TV.
1969 - Trial of the so-called "Chicago Eight" (or "Chicago Seven") began for the political radicals accused of conspiring to incite the riots that occurred during the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
1969 - "60 Minutes" debuted.
1975 - Brits Dougal Huston and Doug Scott became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest via the southwest face.
1976 - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. She is later released after 22 months, having received clemency.
1988 - The first female Episcopal assistant bishop was ordained (Barbara Harris).
1993 - Imelda Marcos, wife of the late Ferdinand Marcos, former dictator of the Philippines, was sentenced to 18 years imprisonment for corruption.
1993 - Sihanouk was reinstalled as king of Cambodia.
1998 - New, harder-to-counterfeit US $20 bill was introduced.
Births 1501 - Gerolamo Cardano, Italian mathematician.
1717 - Horace Walpole, British creator of the Gothic novel genre
1755 - John Marshall, fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American author.
1921 - Jim McKay (McManus), American sportscaster.
1936 - Jim Henson, American creator of the Muppets.
Deaths 1991 - Theodor "Dr. Suess" Geisel, American children's book author.
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