More than 15 years after it was first established, the National Museum of African American History and Culture opens on the National Mall on September 24, 2016.

On September 24, 1988, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson runs the 100-meter dash in 9.

Neil LaFeve, the game warden at Sensiba Wildlife Area in Wisconsin, is reported missing.

The trial for eight antiwar activists charged with inciting violent demonstrations at the August 1968 Democratic National Convention opens in Chicago before Judge Julius Hoffman.

On September 24, 1968, CBS airs the first episode of 60 Minutes, a show that would become a staple of the American media landscape.

On September 24, 1964, President Lyndon B.

Motorcycle builder Soichiro Honda incorporates the Honda Motor Company in Hamamatsu, Japan.

On September 24, 1944, Allies begin their retreat from the Dutch town of Arnhem after Operation Market Garden, a plan to seize bridges there, fails, and thousands of British and Polish troops are killed, wounded or taken prisoner.

On September 24, 1941, the Japanese consul in Hawaii is instructed to divide Pearl Harbor into five zones and calculate the number of battleships in each zone—and report the findings back to Japan.

They dropped their bombs and planned to escape, but the German airship crew hadn’t reckoned on the tenacity of a lone British policeman on his bike.