From: today.in.history.|.onthisday.com@bbs.alt119.net   
      
   Historical Events   
      
   1951 - USSR performs nuclear test   
      
   1965 - Belgium Victor Leemans elected chairman of European Parliament   
      
   1971 - Eyskens-Cools disbands Belgium parliament   
      
   1974 - Al Kaline, Detroit Tiger, is 12th to get 3,000 hits   
      
   1990 - East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact   
      
   1990 - Supreme Soviet gives approval to switch to free market   
      
   More Historical Events ¯   
   Famous Birthdays   
      
   1564 - William Adams, English navigator and 1st ever Western Samurai, born in   
   Gillingham, Kent, England (d. 1620)   
      
   1892 - Adélard Godbout, Canadian politician (15th Premier of Québec), born   
   in Saint-Éloi, Quebec, Canada (d. 1956)   
      
   1898 - Howard Florey, Australian pathologist and pharmacologist who purified   
   penicillin (Nobel 1945), born in Adelaide, South Australia (d. 1968)   
      
   1923 - Theodore "Fats" Navarro, American jazz trumpet player, born in Key   
   West, Florida (d. 1950)   
      
   1979 - Ross Mathews, American television personality and comedian (The Tonight   
   Show), born in Mount Vernon, Washington   
      
   1984 - Szilvia Molnar, Swedish writer   
      
   More Famous Birthdays ¯   
   Famous Deaths   
      
   1180 - Manuel I Komnenos, Emperor of the Byzantine Empire (1143-80), dies at 61   
      
   1896 - Percy McDonnell, Australian cricket batsman (19 Tests, 3 x 100s), dies   
   of cardiac failure at 35   
      
   1945 - Hans Geiger, German physicist (co-inventor of the Geiger counter), dies   
   at 62   
      
   1968 - Harry Robert Wilson, American composer, dies at 67   
      
   1990 - Jay Currin, stuntman/actor (Back to the Beach, Serial), dies at 34   
      
   2008 - Irene Dailey, American actress (Another World, Grissom Gang), dies of   
   colon cancer at 88   
      
   More Famous Deaths ¯   
      
   https://www.onthisday.com/day/september/24   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)