WHAT HAPPENED ON 24. SEPTEMBER
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Forest fires black out the sun over portions of Canada and New England. A blue moon is seen as far away as Europe. (24. September 1950)

Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe, is opened in Barcelona. (24. September 1957)

President Dwight D. Eisenhower sends 101st Airborne Division troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforce desegregation. (24. September 1957)

USS Enterprise (CVN-65), the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, is launched. (24. September 1960)

United States court of appeals orders the University of Mississippi to admit James Meredith. (24. September 1962)

60 Minutes debuts on CBS. (24. September 1968)

Swaziland joins the United Nations. (24. September 1968)

Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal. (24. September 1973)

CompuServe launches the first consumer internet service, which features the first public electronic mail service. (24. September 1979)

Periodic Great White Spot is observed on Saturn. (24. September 1990)

Representatives of 71 nations sign the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations. (24. September 1996)

Hurricane Rita makes landfall in the United States, devastating Beaumont, Texas and portions of southwestern Louisiana. (24. September 2005)

Between 30,000 and 100,000 people take part in anti-government protests in Yangon, Burma, the largest in 20 years. (24. September 2007)

The G20 summit begins in Pittsburgh with 30 global leaders in attendance. It marks the first use of LRAD in U.S. history. (24. September 2009)

A 7.7-magnitude earthquake strikes southern Pakistan, killing more than 327 people. (24. September 2013)