Today is Friday, September 23, the 266th day of 2011. 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
1862 ― Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
1938 ― Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe and 1,100-inch of microfilm)
1949 ― Truman announces evidence of USSR's first nuclear device detonation
1973 ― Former Argentine President Juan Peron returns to power
1977 ― Cheryl Ladd replaces Farrah Fawcett on Charlie's Angels
1978 ― 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Sadat home from Camp David summit
1988 ― Jose Canseco becomes baseball's first to steal 40 bases & hit 40 homeruns
1990 ― Saddam says he will destroy Israel