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September 24th, 2007	Event	Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech on the campus of Columbia University.
September 24th, 2005	Event	Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana.
September 24th, 1996	Event	U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
September 24th, 1994	Event	National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar.
September 24th, 1990	Event	Periodic Great White Spot observed on Saturn
September 24th, 1988	Event	Summer Olympics: Ben Johnson beats Carl Lewis and Linford Christie in the 100 metres sprint in a record time of 9.79 seconds. (Johnson would later be disqualified in a high profile case of doping.)
September 24th, 1973	Event	Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.
September 24th, 1962	Event	United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith.
September 24th, 1957	Event	Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona.
September 24th, 1957	Event	President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation.

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