Today is Thursday, September 26, the 270th day of the yr 2024. There are 96 days left within the yr.
Today in history:
On September 26, 1960, the very first debate between the presidential candidates took place when Democrat John F. Kennedy and Republican Richard M. Nixon faced off before a national television audience from Chicago.
Also on this date:
In 1777, British troops occupied Philadelphia through the American Revolution.
In 1986, William H. Rehnquist was sworn in because the sixteenth Chief Justice of the United States, while Antonin Scalia joined the Supreme Court as its 103rd member.
In 1990, the Motion Picture Association of America announced that it had introduced a brand new age rating called NC-17 to interchange the X rating.
In 1991, 4 men and 4 women began a two-year stay in a sealed structure called Biosphere 2 in Oracle, Arizona; they left Biosphere 2 the identical day in 1993.
In 2000, demonstrations against a summit of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank in Prague led to clashes between hundreds of anti-globalization protesters and the police.
In 2005, Private First Class Lynndie England was found guilty by a military court at Fort Hood, Texas, on six of seven counts related to the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal.
In 2020, President Donald Trump nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett, a former law clerk to the late Justice Antonin Scalia, to the Supreme Court to fill the seat vacated by the death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. (Barrett was confirmed the next month.)
In 2022, NASA's Dart spacecraft rammed an asteroid at breakneck speed – an unprecedented dress rehearsal for the day when a killer rock threatens Earth.
Today's birthdays:
- Country singer David Frizzell is 83.
- TV presenter Anne Robinson is 80.
- Singer Bryan Ferry is 79.
- The writer Jane Smiley is 75.
- Singer and guitarist Cesar Rosas (Los Lobos) is 70.
- Actress Linda Hamilton is 68.
- Actress Melissa Sue Anderson is 62.
- Actor Jim Caviezel (kuh-VEE'-zuhl) is 56.
- Singer Shawn Stockman (Boyz II Men) is 52.
- Hockey Hall of Famers Daniel and Henrik Sedin are 44.
- Tennis player Serena Williams is 43.
- Singer and actress Christina Milian (MIHL'-ee-ahn) is 43.
- Actress Zoe Perry is 41.
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