Sept. 24 historic events
1664 The Dutch Republic surrenders New Amsterdam to England.
1852 The first airship powered by (a steam) engine, created by Henri Giffard, travels 17 miles (27 km) from Paris to Trappes.
1869 “Black Friday”: Gold prices plummet after Ulysses S. Grant orders the Treasury to sell large quantities of gold after Jay Gould and James Fisk plot to control the market.
1957 The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field before moving to Los Angeles for the next season.
1960 The USS Enterprise, the first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, was launched at Newport News, Va.
1948 The Honda Motor Company is founded.
1957 President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.
1991 Children’s author Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, died at age 87.
1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
1998 Redesigned $20 bills meant to be harder to counterfeit went into circulation.
2005 Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
2007 United Auto Workers walked off the job at GM plants in the first nationwide strike during auto contract negotiations since 1976. (A tentative pact ended the walkout two days later.)
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