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Updated September 23, 2012, 2:28 pm
On Sept. 24, 1996, the United States and the world’s other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.
On Sept. 24, 1896, F. Scott Fitzgerald, the famed American novelist of the Jazz Age, was born. Following his death on Dec. 21, 1940, his obituary appeared in The Times.
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1755 John Marshall, the fourth chief justice of the United States, was born in Germantown, Virginia. 1789 Congress passed the First Judiciary Act, which provided for an attorney general and a Supreme Court. 1869 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. 1896 Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minn. 1957 The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field before moving to Los Angeles for the next season. 1968 “60 Minutes” premiered on CBS. 1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery. 1991 The album “Nevermind” by Nirvana was released. 2007 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.) Current Birthdays
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Actress, screenwriter Nia Vardalos (“My Big Fat Greek Wedding”) turns 50 years old today.
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Football Hall of Famer Joe Greene turns 66 years old today.
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1942 Gerry Marsden, Singer (Gerry and the Pacemakers), turns 70 1945 Lou Dobbs, News anchor, turns 67 1948 Gordon Clapp, Actor (“NYPD Blue”), turns 64 1952 Joseph Kennedy II, Former U.S. representative, D-Mass., turns 60 1958 Kevin Sorbo, Actor, turns 54 1982 Paul Hamm, Olympic gymnast, turns 30
Historic Birthdays
F. Scott Fitzgerald 9/24/1896 – 12/21/1940 American novelist and short story writer.Go to obituary »
50 Albrecht Wallenstein 9/24/1583 – 2/25/1634
Bohemian statesman and general in the Thirty Years’ War46 Johan de Witt 9/24/1625 – 8/20/1672
Dutch statesman and political leader of Holland (1653-72)79 John Marshall 9/24/1755 – 7/6/1835
American congressman, secretary of state and 4th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court66 Mark Hanna 9/24/1837 – 2/15/1904
American industrialist and political kingmaker81 Sir A. P. Herbert 9/24/1890 – 11/11/1971
English novelist, playwright, poet and politician88 Stephen Bechtel 9/24/1900 – 3/14/1989
American construction engineer; founded Bechtel Corp.88 Severo Ochoa 9/24/1905 – 11/1/1993
Spanish Nobel Prize-winning biochemist and molecular biologist (1959)66 Svetlana Beriosova 9/24/1932 – 11/10/1998
Lithuanian-born prima ballerina53 Jim Henson 9/24/1936 – 5/16/1990
American puppeteer; creator of the Muppets
