Writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, best known for his classic American novel The Great Gatsby, was born on September 24, 1896, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Continue reading.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born to free parents on September 24, 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland. Continue reading.

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A bit of September 24th history…

1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, last emperor of the Komnenian restoration dies, the Byzantine Empire slips into terminal decline

1529 - Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his Ottoman troops arrive in Vienna, beginning of the siege

1952 - American fast food restaurant chain Kentucky Fried Chicken, opens its 1st franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah

1976 - “Oh! Calcutta!” revival opens at Edison Theater NYC fro 5,959 performances, Broadway’s longest running musical revue

1990 - Iraq invades the French and Dutch missions in Kuwait, Saddam Hussein states his willingness to strike 1st and his intention to damage oil fields in the region (pictured)

2017 - NFL players kneel, lock arms, or stay in their dressing room during the anthem in protest against comments made by President Trump

2019 - UK Supreme Court rules suspension of UK parliament for 5 weeks as Boris Johnson’s Conservative government was unlawful

2019 - Nancy Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry into US President Trump, arguing that he tried to enlist a foreign power fro his own political gain 

Mary Church Terrell—educator, political activist, and first president of the National Association of Colored Women—was born on September 23, 1863, in Memphis, Tennessee.  Continue reading.

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A bit of September 23rd history…

1561 - King Philip II of Spain forbids Spanish settlements in Florida

1780 - British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold’s plot to betray West Point (pictured)  

1846 - Johann Galle and Heinrich d’Arrest find Neptune

1884 - American Herman Hollerith patents his Mechanical Tabulating Machine, the beginning of data processing

1932 - Abdulaziz Ibn Saud merges the kingdoms of Nejd and Hejaz into the kingdom of Saudi Arabia

1950 - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Ralph Bunche for mediation in Israel - 1st African-American winner

1962 - ABC’s 1st color TV series, The Jetsons, premiers

2018 - Japan’s space agency is 1st to place 2 robotic explorers on an asteroid - Ryugu - from it’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft

2018 - Mud volcano, the Otman-Bozdag, erupts 980 ft high in Azerbaijan

On September 22, 1862, partly in response to the heavy losses inflicted at the Battle of Antietam, President Abraham Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all enslaved people in the states in rebellion if those states did not return to the Union by January 1, 1863. Continue reading.

On September 22, 1776, American patriot Nathan Hale was hanged for spying on British troops. Continue reading.

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A bit of September 22nd history…

1735 - Robert Walpole becomes Britain’s first Prime Minister 

1832 - During his HMS Beagle voyage, Charles Darwin discovers a large number of fossils at Punta Alta in Argentina

1922 - US Congress passes the Cable Act, under which an American woman who marries an “alien” will not lose citizenship; neither will a woman marrying an American automatically become a citizen (pictured)

1937 - Date celebrated as 1st international Hobbit Day and the birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins (pictured)

1985 - 1st Farm Aid concert held

1994 - “Friends” debuts on NBC

2011 - CERN scientists announce their discovery of neutrinos breaking the speed of light 

The nation’s first daily newspaper, the Pennsylvania Packet and Daily Advertiser, began publication on September 21, 1784. Continue reading.

On September 21, 1595, Don Juan de Oñate's petition and contract for the conquest of New Mexico was presented to Luís de Velasco, the viceroy of Nueva Vizcaya. Continue reading.

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A bit of September 21st history…

1765 - Antoine de Beauterne announces he has killed the Beast of Gevaudan

1792 - French Revolution:The National Convention passes a proclamation announcing the formal abolishment of the French monarchy. King Louis the 16th is executed the next January (pictured)

1827 - According to Joseph Smith Jr, the angel Moroni, gave him a record of gold plates, 1/3 of which he translated into the Book of Mormon

1895 - America’s 1st automotive producer, the Duryea Motor Wagon company, is founded

1937 - J.R.R Tolkien’s “The Hobbit” is published

2016 - 3 genetic studies published in Nature conclude a non - Africans descended from 1 migration out of Africa 50-80,000 years ago

2016 - Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, pledge $3 billion to medical research to “cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by the end of the century

2016 - Genomic study finding Australian Aboriginal oldest known civilization on earth

2018 -Fossil of Dickinsonia, “The Holy Grail of Paleontology”, proven to be oldest known animal fossil, 558 million years old, from White Sea, Russia 

The United States Congress abolished the slave trade in the District of Columbia on September 20, 1850, as part of the legislative package called the Compromise of 1850. Continue reading.

On September 20, 1853, Elisha Graves Otis sold his first "hoist machines," or elevators, featuring an automatic safety brake that he had recently patented. Continue reading.

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A bit of September 20th history…

451 - Roman General Flavius Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at the Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, halting Hun invasion of Roman Gaul

1519 - Start of Ferdinand Magellan’s successful circumnavigation of the globe - although Magellan himself died along the way (pictured)

1854 - Battle of the Alma: 1st major battle of the Crimean War; British and French alliance defeat the Russians

1973 - Billie Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in Battle-of-Sexes tennis match

2011 - The US ends it’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the 1st time

2015 - Martin Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals confirms raising the price of toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim by 5,000% - to $750 per pill

2019 - Students from 185 countries stage the world’s largest-ever protest on climate change, culminating in Manhattan rally led by Greta Thunberg