WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

1845 _ First baseball team, N.Y. Knickerbockers organize, adopt rule code

1846 _ Johann Gottfried Galle and Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune

1879 _ Baldwin steam motors tram first tried in Sydney, Australia

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

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

1973 _ Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power

1978 _ 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit

1979 _ Jane Fonda and 200,000 attend anti-nuke rally in Battery Park, NYC

1988 _ Jose Canseco becomes baseball's first to steal 40 bases & hit 40 HRs

1990 _ Saddam says he will destroy Israel