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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2008

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Today is Tuesday, September 23, the 267th day of 2008. There are 99 days left in the year.

1642 _ Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, first commencement

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

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

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

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

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