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What happened in history on this day: September 24?
Since 1995, I have been collecting information on a variety of topics,
creating several timelines of history.
Here you will find specific events from those databases
for this day, on the topics of personal computers, video games, the Walt Disney Company,
Chevrolet Corvettes, A&W Root Beer, Sweden, and Canadian coins.
On September 24 in ...
- 1981 - In Boston, Massachussettes, IBM announces it has produced a memory chip that can store 288,000 bits.
- 1995 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A personal computer shows the "Flying Toasters" screen-saver.
- 1996 - Netscape Communications releases the Navigator Personal Edition 3.0 web broswer, for US$50, and the Navigator Gold Personal Edition 3.0 for US$80.
- 1997 - The US Federal Trade Commission announces it is investigating Intel for alleged practices of illegally withholding CPU sales to PC makers who buy competitor's products.
- 2001 - PC manufacturers begin shipping new computers with Windows XP preloaded.
- 2002 - Advanced Micro Devices releases the Athlon XP 1900+ and 2000+ mobile processors. Prices are US$239 and US$345 each in 1000-unit quantities.
- 2007 - The One Laptop Per Child organization launches the Give 1 Get 1 marketing plan. For US$399, a buyer will purchase two XO computers, receiving one in early 2008, with the other being sent to a child in Cambodia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, or Haiti.
- 2007 - Business Week magazines publishes an article on The Best Places to Launch a Career. At number 6 is Microsoft.
- 1937 - The Mickey Mouse film Hawaiian Holiday is released to theaters. Donald Duck, Pluto, Minnie Mouse, and Goofy also appear.
- 1953 - Roy Disney receives word that prospective financiers in New York for Disneyland want to meet next week. He contacts Walt, asking for a visual presentation to take.
- 1959 - The ABC TV network airs the last episode of the Disney-produced TV show, Zorro. ABC cancelled the show because it was cheaper to finance its own shows. 78 episodes were produced.
- 1961 - The NBC TV network debuts the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, on Sunday nights from 7:30 to 8:30. The first show is entitled An Adventure in Color, Mathmagic Land. A new character, Ludwig von Drake, is introduced. This show airs the previously released film Donald in Mathmagic Land.
- 1967 - The NBC TV network airs the Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color show, entitled How the West Was Lost.
- 1972 - The Golden Bear Lodge Restaurant opens in Bear Country at Disneyland.
- 1982 - Buena Vista generally releases the film Tex to theaters in the US.
- 1983 - The CBS TV network airs the Walt Disney TV show for the last time, entitled Walt Disney's Mickey and Donald.
- 1984 - Michael Eisner and Frank Wells begin their first official day of work at Disney.
- 1984 - The Frontierland Shootin' Arcade attraction opens in Frontierland in the Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World.
- 1984 - Disney formally announces the election of Michael Eisner as chairman and CEO, and of Frank Wells as president and chief operating officer.
- 1984 - Unions representing one-third of Disneyland's employees vote 69 percent to reject the company's latest contract offer, and authorize a strike.
- 1984 - Michael Eisner and Frank Wells try to reassure nervous Disneyland employees, speaking from a bandstand built for the film Something Wicked This Way Comes.
- 1985 - The Lotus Blossom Cafe restaurant opens in the China pavilion in World Showcase in EPCOT Center at Walt Disney World.
- 1986 - The La Boutique des Provinces shop opens in the Canada pavilion in World Showcase in EPCOT Center.
- 1991 - The stage show Hollywood's Pretty Woman begins.
- 1992 - The first Disney-hosted Disneyana Convention is held, over four days in the Contemporary Resort Convention Center at Walt Disney World. 750 people attend.
- 1992 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A character refers to Euro Krustyland, an obvious reference to Disney's Euro Disneyland theme park.
- 1993 - Disney releases the Touchstone Pictures / Samuel Goldwyn live-action feature film The Program to theaters in the US.
- 1993 - The ABC TV network begins airing the series Boy Meets World.
- 1999 - Disney releases the Touchstone Pictures live-action feature film Mumford to theaters in the USA.
- 2006 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. Someone tells a scientist to "go inside and do your Flubber", a reference to Disney's Flubber film.
- 2006 - The ABC TV network premieres the Brothers & Sisters TV show.
- 2007 - Business Week magazines publishes an article on The Best Places to Launch a Career. At number 7 is the Walt Disney Company.
- 2014 - The ABC TV network premieres the black-ish show.
- 1960 - At the Watkins Glen raceway in Watkins Glen, New York, an SCCA National race for B and C Production classes is held.
- Finishing 1st in B-Production class and 1st overall is the #72 Corvette driven by Bob Johnson.
- Finishing 3rd in B-Production class and 3rd overall is the #64 Corvette driven by John Caley.
- Finishing 4th in B-Production class and 4th overall is the #269 Corvette driven by Frank Dominianni.
- Finishing 5th in B-Production class and 7th overall is the #63 Corvette driven by Harvey Hockensmith.
- Finishing 6th in B-Production class and 8th overall is the #185 Corvette driven by Dick Lang.
- Finishing 7th in B-Production class and 9th overall is the #94 Corvette driven by Ed Myers.
- Finishing 8th in B-Production class and 10th overall is the #219 Corvette driven by Harold Keck.
- Finishing 9th in B-Production class and 11th overall is the #100 Corvette driven by Trevor McKenna.
- Finishing 10th in B-Production class and 12th overall is the #123 Corvette driven by Smith.
- Finishing 11th in B-Production class and 13th overall is the #234 Corvette driven by Robert Ruth.
- Finishing 12th in B-Production class and 17th overall is the #276 Corvette driven by Cam Smith.
- 1960 - At the Watkins Glen raceway in Watkins Glen, New York, the Grand Prix of Watkins Glen is held. Richard Thompson races the #11 Sting Ray in C-Modified class but does not finish due to a failed differential on the second lap.
- 1974 - General Motors president Edward Cole announces that the company is postponing the introduction of a Wankel-based rotary engine, due to difficulties in meeting proposed emissions standards.
- 2004 - At the Road Atlanta raceway in Braselton, Georgia, the Petit Le Mans race is held, round nine of the SCCA Pro Racing Speed GT Championship series.
- Finishing 3rd is the #28 Corvette Z06, driven by Lou Gigliotti.
- Finishing 4th is the 3R-Racing #73 Corvette Z06, driven by Phil McClure.
- Finishing 7th is the Banner Engineering #6 Corvette Z06, driven by Leighton Reese.
- Finishing 22nd is the Tiger Racing #99 Corvette Z06, driven by Tom Oates.
- Finishing 23rd is the Doug Rippie Motorsport #9 Corvette Z06, driven by Adam Malmquist.
- Finishing 26th is the #94 Corvette Z06, driven by Phillip DiPippo.
- 2005 - At the Watkins Glen International raceway in Watkins Glen, New York, the Crown Royal 250 at The Glen race is held, round twelve of the Grand American Rolex Sports Car Series. In 18th place in GT class and 39th overall, but not finishing the race, is the Michael Baughman Racing #46 Corvette, driven by Michael Baughman and Mike Yeakle.
- 2017 - European ADAC racing series at Hockenheim. In the second race, and final of the season, Jules Gounon and Daniel Keilwitz of Team Callaway Competition finish 2nd. Overall, Jules Gounon is the 2017 ADAC Drivers Champion, with Daniel Keilwitz in 2nd place. Callaway Competition is the 2017 ADAC Team Champion.
- 1939 - New Zealand offers Britain a fully-equipped division for service in any part of the world.
- 1939 - (1030 hours) Swedish freighter Gertrud Bratt is torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, ten miles off the south Norwegian coast.
- 1939 - 1150 German aircraft bomb Warsaw, Poland.
- 1939 - The Soviet Government informs the Finnish Government that passage through Leningrad via Neva River would now be closed to Finnish vessels. The route was allowed by agreement of 1923, allowing for closure in case of war danger.
- 1939 - (2015-2030 hours) Official German radio broadcast declares that with the redrafting of Poland's frontiers, Germany's war is over.
- 1939 - British aerial leaflet drops over Germany resumes, with home publicity emphasising night reconnaissance.
- 1941 - A Japanese mail letter is decoded via Operation Magic, revealing enquiries about berthing information of the U.S. Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor.
- 1942 - Adolf Hitler dismisses Army Chief of Staff Franz Halder, replacing him with Lieutenant General Kurt Zeitzler.
- 1944 - British air attacks on Calais gun positions resume after several days of bad weather. Eight bombers are shot down.
- 1944 - Canadian Defence Minister James Ralston leaves Canada for a personal inspection of Canadian forces in Europe, to determine if accusations of over-used men and poorly trained recruits are true.
- 1944 - (evening) 156 British Lancaster bombers attack the twin aqueducts over River Grane in Germany. Both are breached.
- 2010 - Kazakhstan releases a postage stamp of Baurjan Momasuhly, World War II hero.
- 1995 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. An actor's trailer has two video arcade machines, one with dual joysticks, the other with dual trackballs.
- 2000 - Nintendo releases the Pokémon Puzzle League video game for the Nintendo 64 in the US.
- 2002 - Quote by J. Allard, Microsoft general manager for Xbox: "... narrowband gaming [is] like sucking pizza through a straw.".
- 2002 - Nintendo releases the Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 video game for the Game Boy Advance in the US.
- 2004 - The Cartoon Network airs the TV show Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends in the USA. A Nintendo GameCube appears.
- 2006 - The Fox Broadcasting Company airs The Simpsons TV show in the US. A scene takes place at a video game arcade, "Captain Blip's Zapateria". Some games are Click Clack, Unipede, Remington Steele: The Game, Rocky III vs. Clara Peller, Space-Tac-Toe, Monkey Kong, Polybius, Triangle Wars.
- 2011 - Capcom releases the Dead Rising 2: Off the Record video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 in the US.
- 1531 - In the Great Church of Stockholm, King Gustav marries 18-year old Katarina, daughter of Protestant duke of Sachsen-Lauenburg.
- 1636 - At Wittstock in Brandenburg, Swedish general Johan Banér is victorious over the Emperor and the Elector of Saxony.
- 1939 - (1030 hours) Swedish freighter Gertrud Bratt is torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine, ten miles off the south Norwegian coast.
- 1983 - The Gallup poll conducted over thre days is completed, asking 1000 Canadian adults across the country their interest in the possible introduction of a new circulating $1 coin. 53 percent respond negatively, 35 percent respond positively.
- 1963 - U.S. Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon approves use of the Morgan design for a re-issue of silver dollar coins.
- 2010 - Heritage Auction Galleries conducts the Long Beach Signature Auction in California. Some highlights:
- 1856-O Coronet gold double eagle, EF-45+ NGC, one of 20-30 known: US$345,000.
- 1906 - Saint Louis Cardinals; pitcher Stony McGlynn no-hits Brooklyn Dodgers, 1-1 in 7-inning game.
- 1919 - Babe Ruth sets season homer mark at age 28 off of New York Yankees' player Bob Shawkey.
- 1922 - Roger Hornsby sets the National League baseball home run mark at 42.
- 1927 - NHL's Toronto Saint Patricks hockey team become the Toronto Maple Leafs.
- 1927 - New York Yankees set record of 106 Major League Baseball victories.
- 1930 - Portsmouth beats Brooklyn in first NFL game played under floodlights.
- 1934 - 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell New York Yankees' appearance at Yankee Stadium.
- 1938 - Don Budge becomes first tennis player to win a grand slam.
- 1940 - Jimmy Foxx hits his 500th career home run.
- 1954 - New York Yankees tie a record: three of their pinch hitters strike out in one inning.
- 1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers play last game at Ebbets Field, defeat Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.
- 1967 - Saint Louis Cardinals' Jim Bakken kicks seven field goals versus Pittsburgh Steelers.
- 1968 - New York Mets manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack.
- 1971 - Houston Astros beat San Diego Padres, 2-1, in 21 innings.
- 1972 - Jack Tatum, Oakland Raiders' player, returns a fumble 104 yards versus Green Bay Packers (record).
- 1972 - New York Jets' Joe Namath passes for six touchdowns versus Baltimore Colts (44-34).
- 1973 - Saint Louis Cardinals' Jim Bakken sets NFL record kicking seven field goals.
- 1974 - Al Kaline gets his 3,000th career hit.
- 1977 - Ken Hinton of Canadian Football League's British Columbia Lions returns a punt 130 yards.
- 1978 - Ron Guidry beats Cleveland Indians 4-0, raising his record to 23-3 ERA 1.74.
- 1985 - Montreal Expos' Andre Dawson is ninth to get six RBIs in an inning (5th).
- 1988 - Canada's Ben Johnson runs (drug-assisted) 100m in 9.79 seconds.
- 1988 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets the heptathlon woman's record (7,291).
- 1993 - The International Olympic Committee selects Sydney, Australia to be the site of the 2000 Summer Olympics.
- 2005 - Australian Rules Football team the Sydney Swans win the 2005 Grand Final, to become the AFL Premiers, defeating the West Coast Eagles at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to end a 72 year Premiership drought.
- 2006 - Europe wins the Ryder Cup in Ireland.
- 2007 - India wins the ICC Twenty20 WorldCup beating Pakistan by five runs.
- 1970 - First automated return of lunar sample by Luna 16.
- 2010 - Two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut abort a return to Earth when their space capsule fails to separate from the International Space Station. Crew members later rig jumpers to bypass a failed component and succeed in opening the door.
- 2011 - A six-ton NASA science satellite, the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite, in Earth's orbit for 20 years, crashes to Earth, breaking up into a debris field with unknown landing sites. The satellite was placed in orbit in 1991, completed its mission in 2005, and had been slowly losing altitude ever since.
- 2005 - Hurricane Rita hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, devastating areas near Beaumont, Texas and Lake Charles, Louisiana. The New Orleans's 9th Ward re-floods since Katrina, and Mississippi and Alabama are also affected.
- 1789 - The U.S. Congress passes the Judiciary Act which provides an attorney general and the Supreme Court.
- 1869 - "Black Friday" in the US: Wall Steet panic after Gould and Fisk attempt to corner gold; U.S. government begins to sell off large quantities of gold.
- 1883 - National black convention meets in Louisville, Kentucky.
- 1890 - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.
- 1901 - Theodore Roosevelt inaugerated as President of the USA.
- 1906 - US President Theodore Roosvelt declares Devil's Tower in Wyoming as the first National Monument.
- 1948 - Mildred Gillars (Axis Sally) pleads innocent in Washington DC.
- 1955 - US President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver, Colorado.
- 1957 - US President Dwight Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock, Arkansas schools.
- 1958 - First welded aluminum girder highway bridge completed, Urbandale, Iowa, USA.
- 1960 - The USS Enterprise aircraft carrier is launched at Newport News, Virginia. This is the world's first nuclear-powered carrier, also the most powerful warship ever built, at 300,000 horsepower, the longest at 1101.5 feet, and costliest at US$445 million. The ship was designed to accomodate 100 aircraft.
- 1962 - US Circuit Court of Appeals orders James Meredith admitted to University of Mississippi.
- 1963 - US Senate ratifies treaty with Britain and USSR limiting nuclear testing.
- 1972 - Antique F86 Sabrejet fails to takeoff at air show, kills 22.
- 1976 - Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for her part in a 1974 bank robbery.
- 1979 - Compu-Serve launches the first customer Internet service, including the first public e-mail service.
- 1982 - US, Italian, and French peacekeeping troops begin arriving in Lebanon.
- 1990 - South African President F.W. de Klerk meets President George Bush in Washington, DC.
- 1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
- 1998 - The Federal Reserve releases to circulation Series 1996 $20 notes with new designs.
- 2005 - Hurricane Rita hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, devastating areas near Beaumont, Texas and Lake Charles, Louisiana. The New Orleans's 9th Ward re-floods since Katrina, and Mississippi and Alabama are also affected.
- 2005 - Worldwide protests occur against the Iraq War, with over 150,000 protestors in Washington DC.
- 2007 - The One Laptop Per Child organization launches the Give 1 Get 1 marketing plan. For US$399, a buyer will purchase two XO computers, receiving one in early 2008, with the other being sent to a child in Cambodia, Rwanda, Afghanistan, or Haiti.
- 2008 - TV series Knight Rider debuts in the US.
- 2019 - U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi announces the start of a formal impeachment inquiry against President Donald Trump.
Other history:
- 1829 - Russia and Ottoman Empire sign Peace Treaty of Adrianople.
- 1960 - First nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, launches (USS Enterprise).
- 1988 - Canada's Ben Johnson runs drug-assisted 100 m in 9.79 sec.
- 2008 - Japan's parliament confirms Taro Aso as the country's new prime minister, following the sudden resignation of the last prime minister, Yasuo Fukuda, in early September.
- 2008 - France's EDF announces it will buy British Energy for 12.5 billion pounds (US$23.2 billion).
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