Today in History September 24 60 Minutes premieres In 1996
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Todayin History: September 24, “60 Minutes” premieres In 1996,
The UnitedStates and 70 other countries became the first to sign a treaty at theUnited Nations to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons. (TheComprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty has yet to enter into force because ofthe refusal so far of eight nations — including the United States — to ratifyit.)
In 2001,President George W. Bush ordered a freeze on the assets of 27 people andorganizations with suspected links to terrorism, including Islamic militantOsama bin Laden, and urged other nations to do likewise.In 2015, a stampede andcrush of Muslim pilgrims occurred at an intersection near a holy site in SaudiArabia; The Associated Press estimated that more than 2,400 people were killed,while the official Saudi toll stood at 769.
In 2019,House Speaker Nancy Pelosi launched a formal impeachment inquiry againstPresident Donald Trump; the probe focused partly on whether Trump abused hispresidential powers and sought help from the government of Ukraine to undermineDemocratic foe Joe Biden. (Trump would be acquitted by theRepublican-controlled Senate on two impeachment charges.)
In 2020,President Donald Trump’s refusal to commit to a peaceful transfer of power ifhe were to lose the November election drew swift blowback from both parties inCongress, with Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell saying that the winner “willbe inaugurated on January 20th.”
Tenyears ago:President Barack Obama told the ABC talk show “The View” there was “nodoubt” that the assault of the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, thatkilled four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador, “wasn’t just a mobaction” but a sign of extremism in nations lacking stability. Republicanpresidential candidate Mitt Romney accused Obama of minimizing the Benghaziattack as a mere “bump in the road.”
Fiveyears ago: Morethan 200 NFL players kneeled or sat during the national anthem after PresidentDonald Trump criticized the players’ protests in a speech and a series of tweets.Trump signed a proclamation to replace his expiring travel ban on visitors fromsix Muslim-majority countries; citizens from eight countries would now face newrestrictions on entry to the country. German Chancellor Angela Merkel won afourth term in office, but voters weakened her conservatives and a nationalist,anti-migrant party surged into Germany’s parliament.
Oneyear ago: ARepublican-backed review of the 2020 presidential election in Arizona’s largestcounty ended without providing proof to support former President Donald Trump’sfalse claims of a stolen election; the vote tally from a firm hired byRepublican lawmakers found that President Joe Biden won in the county by 360more votes than in the official results that were certified. California Gov.Gavin Newsom signed a law removing the word “alien” from varioussections of the state code; the word, which was criticized as beingdehumanizing and offensive, would be replaced with terms like “noncitizen”or “immigrant.”