MONDAY, Sept. 23, 2024

1642-Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, first commencement

1897-First frontier days rodeo celebration (Cheyene Wyoming)

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

1938-Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)

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

1952-First closed circuit pay-TV telecast of a sports event

1952-Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech

1962-NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

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

1990-Saddam says he will destroy Israel