TODAY IN HISTORY

FRIDAY SEP 24, 2021

2001

President George W. Bush ordered a freeze on the assets of 27people and organizations with suspected links to terrorism, including Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, and urged other nations to do likewise.

1789

President George Washington signed a Judiciary Act establishing America’s federal court system and creating the post of attorney general.

1869

Thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic known as “Black Friday” after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.

1929

Lt. James H. Doolittle guided a Consolidated NY-2 Biplane over Mitchel Field in New York in the first allinstrument flight.

1934

Babe Ruth made his farewell appearance as a player with the New York Yankees in a game against the Boston Red Sox.

1955

President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while on vacation in Denver.

1960

The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Virginia. “The Howdy Doody Show” ended a nearly 13-year run with its final telecast on NBC.

1969

The trial of the Chicago Eight began.

1976

Former hostage Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974bank robbery in San Francisco carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

1991

Children’s author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died in La Jolla, Calif., at age 87.

1996

The United States and 70 other countries became the first to sign a treaty at the United Nations to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

R&B singer Sonny Turner (The Platters) is 82. Singer Phyllis “Jiggs” Allbut Sirico (The Angels) is 79. Political commentator Lou Dobbs is

76. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Joe Greene is

75. Actor Gordon Clapp is

73. Actor Harriet Walter is

71. Songwriter Holly Knight is 65. Actor Kevin Sorbo is

63. Actor-writer Nia Vardalos is 59.