History September 24
Martinstopgist "News At Your Fingertips"
| 1788 | After having been dissolved, the French Parliament of Paris reassembles in triumph. | |
| 1789 | Congress passes the Judiciary Act of 1789, establishing a strong federal court system with the powers it needs to ensure the supremacy of the Constitution and federal law. The new Supreme Court will have a chief justice and five associate justices. | |
| 1842 | Branwell Bronte, the brother of the Bronte sisters and the model for Hindley Earnshaw in Emily's novel Wuthering Heights, dies of tuberculosis. Emily and Anne die the same year. | |
| 1862 | President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus against anyone suspected of being a Southern sympathizer. | |
| 1904 | Sixty-two die and 120 are injured in head-on train collision in Tennessee. | |
| 1914 | In the Alsace-Lorraine area between France and Germany, the German Army captures St. Mihiel. | |
| 1915 | Bulgaria mobilizes troops on the Serbian border. | |
| 1929 | The first flight using only instruments is completed by U.S. Army pilot James Doolittle. | |
| 1930 | Noel Coward's comedy Private Lives opens in London starring Gertrude Lawrence and Coward himself. | |
| 1947 | The World Women's Party meets for the first time since World War II. | |
| 1956 | The first transatlantic telephone cable system begins operation. | |
| 1957 | President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends federal troops into Little Rock, Arkansas, to protect nine black students entering its newly integrated high school. | |
| 1960 | The Enterprise, the first nuclear powered aircraft carrier, was launched |
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