September 24<\/p>\n
787 \u2013 The Seventh Ecumenical Council, the Second Council of Nicaea, is convened at the church of Hagia Sophia in Nicea, present day Iznik Turkey<\/p>\n
1572 \u2013 T\u00fapac Amaru the last Emperor (Sapa Inca) of the Incas is executed on order of Viceroy Francisco \u00c1lvarez de Toledo on the charge of murdering priests in Vilcabamba.<\/p>\n
1789 \u2013 Congress passes the Judiciary Act<\/em>, creating the office of the Attorney General and federal judiciary system and ordering the composition of the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n 1846 \u2013The U.S. Army of the Occupation under General Zachary Taylor captures Monterrey, Nuevo Le\u00f3n during the Mexican -American War.<\/p>\n 1869 \u2013 The Black Friday Gold Panic begins as gold prices plummet after President Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market and force up the price on the New York Gold Exchange<\/p>\n 1890 \u2013 The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officially renounces polygamy.<\/p>\n 1906 \u2013 President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument.<\/p>\n 1929 \u2013 Jimmy Doolittle performs the first flight of an airplane\u00a0without without a view outside the cockpit, proving that full instrument flying from take off to landing is possible.<\/p>\n 1948 \u2013 Soichiro Honda forms the Honda Motor Company<\/p>\n 1957 \u2013 President Eisenhower sends the 101st Airborne Division to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation of Central High School.<\/p>\n 1960 \u2013Sponsored by Mrs. W. B. Franke, the world’s first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, CVA(N)-65 USS Enterprise<\/em>, is launched at Newport News Virginia.<\/p>\n 1991 \u2013 Theodor “Doctor Seuss”\u00a0 Geisel dies at his home in La Jolla San Diego<\/p>\n 2005 \u2013 Hurricane Rita, <\/em>the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico, makes landfall in the United States at category 5 power, causing 120 deaths and $18 billion in damage in southwestern Louisiana, southeastern Texas and on into the midwestern states<\/p>\n 2015 \u2013 At least 2,000 people are killed and another 900 injured during a stampede during the Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" September 24 787 \u2013 The Seventh Ecumenical Council, the Second Council of Nicaea, is convened at the church of Hagia Sophia in Nicea, present day Iznik Turkey 1572 \u2013 T\u00fapac Amaru the last Emperor (Sapa Inca) of the Incas is executed on order of Viceroy Francisco \u00c1lvarez de Toledo on the charge of murdering priests … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59946"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96253,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59946\/revisions\/96253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}