{"id":13225,"date":"2023-09-17T00:32:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/?p=13225"},"modified":"2023-09-13T16:47:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T11:17:23","slug":"history-of-17-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fundabook.com\/en\/history-of-17-september\/","title":{"rendered":"History of 17 September"},"content":{"rendered":"

History of 17 September<\/h3>\n

1911<\/strong> – The first transcontinental airplane flight started. It took C.P. Rogers 82 hours to fly from New York City to Pasadena, CA.<\/p>\n

1920<\/strong> – The American Professional Football Association was formed in Canton, OH. It was the precursor to the National Football League (NFL).<\/p>\n

1930<\/strong> – Construction on Boulder Dam, later renamed Hoover Dam, began in Black Canyon, near Las Vegas, NV.<\/p>\n

1932<\/strong> – Sir Malcolm Campbell set a speed record when he reached 276.27 mph over a half-mile.<\/p>\n

1937<\/strong> – At Mount Rushmore, Abraham Lincoln’s face was dedicated.<\/p>\n

1939<\/strong> – The Soviet Union invaded Poland. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.<\/p>\n

1944<\/strong> – Operation “Market Garden” was launched by Allied paratroopers during World War II. The landing point was behind German lines in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

1947<\/strong> – The first U.S. Secretary of Defense, James V. Forrestal, was sworn into office.<\/p>\n

1953<\/strong> – Ernie Banks became the first black baseball player to wear a Chicago Cubs uniform. He retired in 1971 known as ‘Mr. Cub’.<\/p>\n

1953<\/strong> – The Ochsner Foundation Hospital in New Orleans, LA, successfully separated Siamese twins. Carolyn Anne and Catherine Anne Mouton were connected at the waist when born.<\/p>\n

1955<\/strong> – “The Perry Como Show” moved to Saturday nights on NBC-TV.<\/p>\n

1961<\/strong> – The Minnesota Vikings were debuted as the new National Football League (NFL) team.<\/p>\n

1962<\/strong> – U.S. space officials announced the selection of Neil A. Armstrong and eight others as new astronauts.<\/p>\n

1963<\/strong> – “The Fugitive” premiered on ABC-TV. The show starred David Janssen.<\/p>\n

1964<\/strong> – “Bewitched” premiered on ABC-TV.<\/p>\n

1965<\/strong> – “Hogan’s Heroes” debuted on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n

1966<\/strong> – “Mission Impossible” premiered on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n

1972<\/strong> – “M*A*S*H” premiered on CBS-TV.<\/p>\n

1976<\/strong> – NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise<\/i> in Palmdale, CA.<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong> – Vanessa Williams, as Miss New York, became the first black woman to be crowned Miss America.<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong> – Johnny Bench (Cincinnati Reds) retired after 16 years as a catcher.<\/p>\n

1983<\/strong> – Carl Yastrzemski (Boston Red Sox) broke Hank Aaron’s major league record for games played when he started his 3,299th game. (MLB)<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> – 9,706 immigrants became naturalized citizens when they were sworn in by U.S. Vice-President George Bush in Miami, FL. It was the largest group to become U.S. citizens.<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> – Gordon P. Getty was named the richest person in the U.S. His fortune was $4.1 billion.<\/p>\n

1984<\/strong> – Reggie Jackson hit his 500th career home run. It was exactly 17 years from the day he hit his first major league home run.<\/p>\n

1988<\/strong> – Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril declared himself president of Haiti after President Henri Hamphy was ousted.<\/p>\n

1991<\/strong> – The United Nations General Assembly opened its 46th session. The new members were Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North and South Korea, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands.<\/p>\n

1992<\/strong> – Lawrence Walsh called a halt to his probe of the Iran-Contra scandal. The investigation had lasted 5 1\/2 years.<\/p>\n

1995<\/strong> – Hong Kong held its last legislative election before being taken over by China in 1997.<\/p>\n

1997<\/strong> – Northern Ireland’s main Protestant party joined in peace talks. It was the first time that all of the major players had come together.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – The United States government offered a reward for the capture of Haroun Fazil for his role in the U.S. bombing in Kenya on August 7, 1998.<\/p>\n

1998<\/strong> – The U.S. announced a plan that would compensate victims in the Kenya and Tanzania U.S. Embassy bombings on August 7, 1998.<\/p>\n

2014<\/strong> – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at an all-time high of 17,156.<\/p>\n

2016<\/strong> \u2013 Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.<\/p>\n

2018<\/strong> \u2013 A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea.<\/sup><\/p>\n

Celebrating Birthday Today<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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  • 1982<\/strong> \u2013 Manos Lo\u00efzos, Egyptian-Greek composer (b. 1937)<\/li>\n
  • 1983<\/strong> \u2013 Humberto Sousa Medeiros, Portuguese-American cardinal (b. 1915)<\/li>\n
  • 1984<\/strong> \u2013 Richard Basehart, American actor and director (b. 1914)<\/li>\n
  • 1985<\/strong> \u2013 Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer, founded Laura Ashley plc (b. 1925)<\/li>\n
  • 1987<\/strong> \u2013 Harry Locke, English actor (b. 1913)<\/li>\n
  • 1991<\/strong> \u2013 Zino Francescatti, French violinist and composer (b. 1902)<\/li>\n
  • 1992<\/strong> \u2013 Roger Wagner, American conductor, and educator (b. 1914)<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong> \u2013 Willie Mosconi, American pool player, and actor (b. 1913)<\/li>\n
  • 1993<\/strong> \u2013 Christian Nyby, American director and producer (b. 1913)<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong> \u2013 John Delafose, American accordion player (b. 1939)<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong> \u2013 Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player and coach (b. 1954)<\/li>\n
  • 1994<\/strong> \u2013 Karl Popper, Austrian-English philosopher and academic (b. 1902)<\/li>\n
  • 1995<\/strong> \u2013 Isadore Epstein, Estonian-American astronomer and academic (b. 1919)<\/li>\n
  • 1995<\/strong> \u2013 Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (b. 1931)<\/li>\n
  • 1996<\/strong> \u2013 Spiro Agnew, American soldier, and politician, 39th Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)<\/li>\n
  • 1997<\/strong> \u2013 Red Skelton, American actor, and comedian (b. 1913)<\/li>\n
  • 1998<\/strong> \u2013 Ted Binion, American poker player and businessman (b. 1943)<\/li>\n
  • 1998<\/strong> \u2013 Geoffrey Dutton, Australian historian and author (b. 1922)<\/li>\n
  • 1999<\/strong> \u2013 Frankie Vaughan, English singer, and actor (b. 1928)<\/li>\n
  • 2000<\/strong> \u2013 Georgiy Gongadze, Georgian-Ukrainian journalist and director (b. 1969)<\/li>\n
  • 2003<\/strong> \u2013 Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)<\/li>\n
  • 2005<\/strong> \u2013 Jacques Lacarri\u00e8re, French journalist and critic (b. 1925)<\/li>\n
  • 2005<\/strong> \u2013 Alfred Reed, American composer, and educator (b. 1921)<\/li>\n
  • 2009<\/strong> \u2013 Dick Durock, American stuntman, and actor (b. 1937)<\/li>\n
  • 2009<\/strong> \u2013 Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian terrorist (b. 1968)<\/li>\n
  • 2011<\/strong> \u2013 Colin Madigan, Australian architect, and author designed the National Gallery of Australia (b. 1921)<\/li>\n
  • 2012<\/strong> \u2013 Melvin Charney, Canadian sculptor, and architect (b. 1935)<\/li>\n
  • 2012<\/strong> \u2013 Lou Kenton, English soldier and potter (b. 1908)<\/li>\n
  • 2012<\/strong> \u2013 Russell E. Train, American soldier and civil servant (b. 1920)<\/li>\n
  • 2013<\/strong> \u2013 Kristian Gidlund, Swedish drummer and journalist (b. 1983)<\/li>\n
  • 2013<\/strong> \u2013 Larry Lake, American-Canadian trumpet player, and composer (b. 1943)<\/li>\n
  • 2013<\/strong> \u2013 Bernie McGann, Australian saxophonist, and composer (b. 1937)<\/li>\n
  • 2013<\/strong> \u2013 Alex Naumik, Lithuanian-Norwegian singer-songwriter, and producer (b. 1949)<\/li>\n
  • 2013<\/strong> \u2013 Michael J. Noonan, Irish farmer, and politician, 25th Irish Minister of Defence (b. 1935)<\/li>\n
  • 2013<\/strong> \u2013 Marvin Rainwater, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925)<\/li>\n
  • 2013<\/strong> \u2013 Eiji Toyoda, Japanese businessman (b. 1913)<\/li>\n
  • 2014<\/strong> \u2013 George Hamilton IV, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)<\/li>\n
  • 2014<\/strong> \u2013 Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1972)<\/li>\n
  • 2014<\/strong> \u2013 Wakachichibu Komei, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1939)<\/li>\n
  • 2014<\/strong> \u2013 Charles Read, Australian air marshal (b. 1918)<\/li>\n
  • 2014<\/strong> \u2013 Peter von Bagh, Finnish historian, director, and screenwriter (b. 1943)<\/li>\n
  • 2014<\/strong> \u2013 China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress (b. 1922)<\/li>\n
  • 2015<\/strong> \u2013 Ingr\u012bda Andri\u0146a, Latvian actress (b. 1944)<\/li>\n
  • 2015<\/strong> \u2013 Dettmar Cramer, German footballer, and manager (b. 1925)<\/li>\n
  • 2015<\/strong> \u2013 Milo Hamilton, American sportscaster (b. 1927)<\/li>\n
  • 2015<\/strong> \u2013 Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1937)<\/li>\n
  • 2015<\/strong> \u2013 David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1919)<\/li>\n
  • 2016<\/strong> \u2013 Bahman Golbarnezhad, Iranian racing cyclist (b. 1968)<\/li>\n
  • 2016<\/strong> \u2013 Sigge Parling, Swedish footballer (b. 1936)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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