SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2007

Today is Sunday, September 23, the 265th day of 2007. There are 100 days left in the year.

1642 _ Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass., holds the first commencement

1862 _ Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers

1868 _ Grito de Lares proclaims Puerto Rico's independence (crushed by Spain)

1908 _ The University of Alberta opens

1932 _ Kingdom of Hejaz & Nejd renamed Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

1949 _ Harry Truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation

1952 _ Richard Nixon makes his ``Checker's" speech

1973 _ Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power

1990 _ PBS begins an 11-hour miniseries on The Civil War

1990 _ Saddam Hussein says he will destroy Israel