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|  On This Day (September 24)
- 622 – Muhammad and his followers completed their Hijra from Mecca to Medina to escape religious persecution.
- 768 - Pippin_III (Pippin the Short), King of the Franks died (b. 714) - best known as the father of Charlemagne.
- 1724 - Sir Arthur Guinness, Irish brewer born (d. 1803)
- 1789 – The First United States Congress passed the Judiciary Act of 1789, establishing the U.S. federal judiciary and setting the number of Supreme Court Justices.
- 1841 – The Sultan of Brunei granted Sarawak to British adventurer James Brooke.
- 1896 - F. Scott Fitzgerald, American novelist born (d. 1940)
- 1903 – Alfred Deakin became the second Prime Minister of Australia, succeeding Edmund Barton who left office to become a founding justice of the High Court of Australia.
- 1945 - Hans_Geiger, German physicist died (b. 1882)
- 1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
- 1962 - United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
- 1988 – Canadian Ben Johnson finished the 100 m sprint at the Seoul Olympics in a world record time of 9.79 seconds, ahead of rivals Carl Lewis and Linford Christie, but was later disqualified for doping.
Some important dates over the weekend:
On This Day (September 23) - 63 BCE - Augustus Caesar, Roman Emperor born (d. 14)
- 1215 - Kublai Khan of the Mongol Empire born (d. 1294) - grandson of Genghis Khan.
- 1806 - Lewis and Clark return to St. Louis, after exploring the Pacific Northwest of the United States.
- 1848 - First commercial production of chewing gum by John Curtis on a stove at his home in Bangor, Maine in the United States and marketed as 'The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum'.
- 1884 - Herman Hollerith patents his mechanical tabulating machine.
- 1939 - Sigmund Freud, Austrian psychiatrist died (b. 1856)
- 1962 - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City opens with the first building completed, Philharmonic Hall (now Avery Fisher Hall) home of the New York Philharmonic. The New York Philharmonic is the oldest active symphony orchestra in the US (St. Louis Symphony is the second oldest.)
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