Today is Saturday, Sept. 24, the 268th day of 2016. There are 98 days left in the year.

Today’s birthdays: Rhythm-and-blues singer Sonny Turner (The Platters) is 77. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Joe Greene is 70. Actor Gordon Clapp is 68. Songwriter Holly Knight is 60. Former US representative Joseph Kennedy II is 64. Olympic gold medal gymnast Paul Hamm is 34. Actor Erik Stocklin is 34. Actor Kyle Sullivan is 28.

In 1789, President George Washington signed a Judiciary Act establishing America’s federal court system and creating the post of attorney general.

In 1869, thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street panic known as ‘‘Black Friday’’ after financiers Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the gold market.

In 1890, the president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Wilford Woodruff, wrote a manifesto renouncing the practice of plural marriage, or polygamy.

In 1957, the Los Angeles-bound Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field, defeating the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0.

In 1960, ‘‘The Howdy Doody Show’’ ended a nearly 13-year run with its final telecast on NBC.

In 1976, former hostage Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery in San Francisco carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army.

In 1988, members of the Eastern Massachusetts Episcopal diocese elected Barbara C. Harris the first female bishop in the church’s history.