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Birthday September 17, 0879 Charles III, (The Simple), king of France (893-923) |
Birthday September 17, 1271 Wenceslas II, king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305) |
Birthday September 17, 1730 Baron Frederick von Steuben, made Continental Army winners |
Birthday September 17, 1743 Marquis de Condorcet, French Enlightenment philosopher |
Birthday September 17, 1819 Thomas A Hendricks, (D), 21st US vice-president; died in office |
Birthday September 17, 1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, pioneer in rocket & space research |
Birthday September 17, 1869 Christian Lange, Norwegian pacifist, internationalist (Nobel 1921) |
Birthday September 17, 1907 Warren E Burger, ex-Supreme Court chief justice |
Birthday September 17, 1921 Virgilio Barco Vargas, president of Colombia (1986-90) |
Birthday September 17, 1923 Hank Williams, country singer (Cold, Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin') |
Birthday September 17, 1927 George Blanda, NFL quarterback, place kicker (Oakland Raiders) |
Birthday September 17, 1928 Roddy McDowall, Actor (Planet of the Apes) |
Birthday September 17, 1930 Thomas P Stafford, astronaut (Gemini 6, 9, Apollo 10) |
Birthday September 17, 1930 Edgar Dean Mitchell, astronaut (Apollo 14) |
Birthday September 17, 1931 Anne Bancroft, aka Mrs Mel Broks, Bronx (Graduate) |
Birthday September 17, 1933 Dorothy Louden, Actress |
Birthday September 17, 1933 Pat Crowley, Actress |
Birthday September 17, 1948 John Ritter, (3's Company) |
History September 17, 1630 Boston founded |
History September 17, 1776 Presidio of SF founded as Spanish fort |
History September 17, 1778 Indians and Loyalists burn German Flats, New York |
History September 17, 1787 U.S. Constitution signed |
History September 17, 1787 US Constitution is adopted & formally signed |
History September 17, 1789 William Herschel discovers Mimas satellite of Saturn |
History September 17, 1796 Washington prepares final draft of farewell address |
History September 17, 1819 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii |
History September 17, 1820 John Keats leaves for Italy |
History September 17, 1862 Rebels and Yankees clash at the Battle of Antietam |
History September 17, 1862 Battle of Antietam Md; Confederate forces retreat |
History September 17, 1868 Cheyenne and Sioux decimate frontiersmen at Beecher's Island |
History September 17, 1884 A California judge sets a record for trying criminal cases |
History September 17, 1908 Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight |
History September 17, 1911 1st transcontinental airplane flight NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min |
History September 17, 1916 Manfred von Richthofen shoots down his first plane |
History September 17, 1920 National Football League formed in Canton Ohio |
History September 17, 1923 Fire threatens U.C. Berkeley |
History September 17, 1927 Charles Lindbergh in SF |
History September 17, 1939 Soviet Union invades Poland |
History September 17, 1953 1st succesSFul separation of Siamese twins |
History September 17, 1956 Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of the year |
History September 17, 1957 Louis Armstrong cancels trip to Russia |
History September 17, 1963 The Fugitive premiers |
History September 17, 1964 Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999 2000 & 2001 |
History September 17, 1964 Bewitched premiers |
History September 17, 1965 Amphibious cars arrive in Frankfurt after sailing across the English Channel |
History September 17, 1967 Mission Impossible premiers |
History September 17, 1967 The Who spark an explosion on national television |
History September 17, 1968 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon |
History September 17, 1970 PRG presents a new peace plan |
History September 17, 1972 Hanoi releases three POWs |
History September 17, 1972 BART begins passenger service |
History September 17, 1976 Space Shuttle unveiled |
History September 17, 1977 Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer Reggie hits 2 more |
History September 17, 1978 Begin Sadat & Carter sign the Camp David accord |
History September 17, 1978 Camp David Accords signed |
History September 17, 1978 Red Sox finally beat Yanks in Sept 1978 7-3 |
History September 17, 1981 Fernandomania! |
History September 17, 1983 Vanessa Williams becomes first black Miss America |
History September 17, 1985 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station |
History September 17, 1996 Oprah launches influential book club |