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Published Sept. 24, 2014

1513, Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.

1690, one of the earliest American newspapers, Publick Occurrences, published its first — and last — edition in Boston.

1789, the first United States Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. (Ten of the amendments became the Bill of Rights.)

1957, nine black students who'd been forced to withdraw from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, because of unruly white crowds were escorted to class by members of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne Division.

1978, 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego.

1981, Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.



TODAY IN HISTORY

1513: Spanish explorer Vasco Nunez de Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and sighted the Pacific Ocean.

1978: 144 people were killed when a Pacific Southwest Airlines Boeing 727 and a private plane collided over San Diego.

1981: Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.