James Maury Henson (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990)

Jim Henson was puppeteer, animator, cartoonist, actor,
inventor, and filmmaker who achieved worldwide
notability as the creator of the Muppets (below).

THE WARREN COMMISSION HANDING OVER THEIR VOLUMINOUS REPORT ON THE ASSASSINATION
TO PRESIDENT JOHNSON (right).

On September 24, 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson received
the Warren commission’s special report on the assassination of President John  F. Kennedy, which had occurred on November
22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas.

Since the assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was killed by a man
named Jack Ruby almost immediately after murdering
Kennedy, Oswald’s motive for assassinating the president
remained unknown.

The commission was led by Chief Justice Earl Warren and
became known as the Warren Commission. It concluded that
Oswald had acted alone and that the Secret Service had made
poor preparations for JFK’s visit to Dallas and had failed to
sufficiently protect him.

German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle (below) 
discovered the planet Neptune at the Berlin
Observatory.

Johann Gottfried Galle
(9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910)

The the Berlin Observatory. 

The 1829 9"/24cm refractor telescope of New Berlin
Observatory that discovered Neptune.

Artist’s impression of the planet Neptune.

The blue gas giant, which has a diameter four
times that of Earth, was named for the Roman
god of the sea. It has eight known moons, of
which Triton is the largest, and a ring system
containing three bright and two dim rings.

It completes an orbit of the sun once every
165 years. In 1989, the U.S. planetary
spacecraft Voyager 2 was the first human
spacecraft to visit Neptune.

The autumnal equinox is an astronomical event marking
the start of fall in the Northern Hemisphere. An equinox
happens when the center of the sun crosses the "celestial equator," an imaginary extension of the Earth’s equator
into space.

On September 23, 1875, Billy the Kid was arrested for the first
time after being involved in the stealing of a basket of clothes
from a Chinese laundry. It was a result of a 15-year-old’s prank,
gone wrong.

He later broke out of jail and roamed the American West,
eventually earning a reputation as an outlaw and murderer
with a rap sheet that allegedly included 21 murders.

The exact details of Billy the Kid’s birth are unknown, other
than his name, William Henry McCarty. He was probably born
sometime between 1859 and 1861, in Indiana or New York.

 

An old photo purchased from a California antique shop shows the
infamous outlaw Billy the Kid, apparently taking part in a game of
croquet. The image could be worth up to $5 million. It took more
than a year of careful inspection to confirm the authenticity of
the photo.