September 24th

United Auto Workers walked off the job at GM plants in the first nationwide strike during auto contract negotiations since 1976. (A tentative pact ended the walkout two days later.).

The United States and the world's other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.

Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87.

Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery.

Guinea-Bissau gains independence. Guinea-Bissau declared its independence from Portugal. The declaration was recognized almost a year later on September 10, 1974.

The trial of the "Chicago Eight," radical antiwar and counterculture activists accused of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic convention, began.

'60 Minutes' premiered on CBS.

The Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched.

The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field before moving to Los Angeles for the next season.

'Operation Magic Carpet' - all Jews from Yemen move to Israel.

Honda Motor Company is founded by Soichiro Honda. The automobile manufacturer is also the world's largest producer of motorcycles.

Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minn.

Battle of Shiroyama, decisive victory of the Imperial Japanese Army over the Satsuma Rebellion.

Financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to corner the gold market, sending Wall Street into a panic and leaving thousands of investors in financial ruin.

Congress passed the First Judiciary Act which provided for a U.S. attorney general and the Supreme Court.

John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the United States, was born in Germantown, Virginia.

Manuel I Komnenos, last Emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies. The Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline.