Today in History: September 24, Protesting NFL players take a knee

Today is Tuesday, Sept. 24, the 268th time of 2024. There are 98 days near successful the year.

Today successful history:

On Sept. 24, 2017, much than 200 NFL players kneeled oregon sat during the nationalist anthem aft President Donald Trump criticized the players’ protests successful a code and a bid of tweets.

Also connected this date:

In 1789, President George Washington signed a Judiciary Act establishing America’s national tribunal strategy and creating the station of lawyer general.

In 1869, thousands of businessmen were ruined successful a Wall Street panic known arsenic “Black Friday” aft financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to country the golden market.

In 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt established Devil’s Tower arsenic the archetypal U.S. nationalist monument.

In 1957, the Los Angeles-bound Brooklyn Dodgers played their past crippled astatine Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.

In 1960, the USS Enterprise, the archetypal nuclear-powered craft carrier, was launched astatine Newport News, Virginia.

In 1963, the U.S. Senate ratified a pact with Britain and the Soviet Union limiting atomic testing.

In 1968, the TV quality mag “60 Minutes” premiered connected CBS.

In 1969, the proceedings of the Chicago Eight, aboriginal the Chicago Seven, began. (Five were aboriginal convicted of crossing authorities lines to incite riots astatine the 1968 Democratic convention, but the convictions were yet overturned.)

In 1988, Jackie Joyner-Kersey won golden and acceptable a satellite grounds successful the women’s heptathlon astatine the Summer Olympics successful Seoul.

In 2013, a almighty 7.7-magnitude earthquake rocked southwest Pakistan, sidesplitting astatine slightest 376 people.

In 2015, a stampede and crush of Muslim pilgrims occurred successful the beatified metropolis of Mina, Saudi Arabia. While the authoritative Saudi decease toll stood astatine 769, The Associated Press estimated that much than 2,400 radical were killed.

In 2022, Russian forces launched caller strikes connected Ukrainian cities arsenic Kremlin-orchestrated votes took spot successful occupied regions of Ukraine to make a pretext for their annexation by Moscow.

Today’s Birthdays:

• Football Hall of Famer Joe Greene is 78.
• Actor Gordon Clapp is 76.
• Actor Harriet Walter is 74.
• Filmmaker Brad Bird is 67.
• Actor Kevin Sorbo is 66.
• Actor-screenwriter Nia Vardalos is 62.
• Celebrity cook Robert Irvine is 59.
• TV property Ross Matthews is 45.
• Olympic golden medal gymnast Paul Hamm (hahm) is 42.
• Actor Spencer Treat Clark is 37.
• Actor Grey Damon is 37.
• Actor Ben Platt is 31.
• Actor Joe Locke is 21.