Immediately is Wednesday, Sept. 18, the 262nd day of 2024. There are 104 days left within the yr.
Immediately in historical past:
On Sept. 18, 2020, Supreme Courtroom Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a towering champion of ladies’s rights who grew to become the courtroom’s second feminine justice, died at her dwelling in Washington at age 87, of issues from pancreatic most cancers.
Additionally on this date:
In 1793, President George Washington laid the cornerstone of the U.S. Capitol.
In 1850, Congress handed the Fugitive Slave Act, which created a drive of federal commissioners charged with returning escaped slaves to their house owners.
In 1851, the primary version of The New York Instances was revealed.
In 1947, the Nationwide Safety Act, which created a Nationwide Army Institution and the place of Secretary of Protection, went into impact.
In 1961, United Nations Secretary-Normal Dag Hammarskjold (dahg HAWM’-ahr-shoold) was killed in a airplane crash in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia).
In 1970, rock star Jimi Hendrix died in London at age 27.
In 1975, newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was captured by the FBI in San Francisco, 19 months after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Military.
In 2014, voters in Scotland rejected independence, opting to stay a part of the UK in a historic referendum.
Immediately’s Birthdays:
- Hockey Corridor of Fame coach Scotty Bowman is 91.
- Singer Frankie Avalon is 84.
- Actor Anna Deavere Smith is 74.
- Neurosurgeon-author-politician Ben Carson is 73.
- Basketball Corridor of Fame coach Rick Pitino is 72.
- Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., is 70.
- Hockey Corridor of Famer Peter Šťastný is 68.
- Baseball Corridor of Famer Ryne Sandberg is 65.
- Actor Holly Robinson Peete is 60.
- R&B singer Ricky Bell (Bell Biv Devoe, New Version) is 57.
- Basketball Corridor of Famer Toni Kukoč is 56.
- Actor Aisha Tyler is 54.
- Actor Jada Pinkett Smith is 53.
- Actor James Marsden is 51.
- Rapper-TV host Xzibit is 50.
- Comic-actor Jason Sudeikis is 49.
- Former soccer participant Ronaldo is 48.
- TV host Sara Haines is 47.
- Actor/comic Billy Eichner is 46.
- Rapper Dizzee Rascal is 40.
- Nation singer Tae Kerr (Maddie and Tae) is 29.
- Soccer participant Christian Pulisic is 26.