Today in History - History - September 24th

1988Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)

1982Tennis great Bjorn Borg retires at 26

1979Pete Rose reaches 200 hits in a season for 10th time

1953Rocky Marciano TKOs Roland LaStarza in 11 for heavyweight boxing title

1968NY Met manager Gil Hodges suffers a heart attack

1996U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.

2007Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University.

1993Norodom Sihanouk again installed as King of Cambodia

1938Alice Marble wins her 2nd singles US tennis title

1995Emillio & Gloria Estefan's boat hits & kills a jet skiier

1936Jim Henson, Greenville Miss, muppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show), (d. 1990)

1896F Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby), (d. 1940)

1755John Marshall, Germantown Virginia, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice (1801-35)

1898Howard Florey, Adelaide Aust, pathologist/phamacologist; purified penicillin (Nobel '45), (d. 1968)

2005Actor Ashton Kutcher (34) weds actress Demi Moore (49) in Beverly Hills, California

1948American Major League Baseball outfielder Ty Cobb (61) weds Frances Cass (40)

1991Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss), children's author, dies of cancer at 87

1541Philippus A Paracelsus, Swiss physician/alchemist, dies at 47