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Birthdates which occurred on your SELECTED date of September 17:

 879 Charles III [The Simple], king of France (893-923)
1271 Wenceslas II king of Bohemia & Poland (1278-1305)
1730 Baron Frederick von Steuben Germany, made Continental Army winners
1743 Marquis de Condorcet France, enlightenment philosopher
1774 Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages)
1819 Thomas Andrews Hendricks (D) 21st US VP; died in office
1850 Ab¡lio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro Portuguese poet (The Simple Ones)
1857 Konstantin Tsiolkovsky pioneer in rocket & space research
1869 Christian Lange Norway, pacifist/internationalist (Nobel 1921)
1884 Charles Tomlinson Griffes Elmira NY, composer (White Peacock)
19-- Chris Conrad actor (Matt-High Mountain Rangers)
19-- Ty Tabor rocker (King's X-Faith Hope Love)
1904 Frederick Ashton choreographer (Cinderella)
1907 Warren E Burger Minn, Supreme Court chief justice (1969-86)
1917 Lawrence Jacob Atlantic City NJ, artist (Sanitarium)
1917 Peter Bennett London, actor (Leonides-Adv of Sir Lancelot)
1921 Virgilio Barco Vargas president of Colombia (1986-90)
1922 Ursula Howells London, actress (Girly, Murder is Announced)
1923 Hank Williams country singer (Cold, Cold Heart, Hey Good Lookin')
1927 George Blanda Penn, NFL hall of famer (Bears, Oilers, Raiders)
1928 Roddy McDowall actor (Planet of the Apes, Lord Love a Duck)
1930 David Huddleston Vinton Va, actor (How the West Was Won)
1930 Edgar Dean Mitchell Hereford Texas, Capt USN/astronaut (Apollo 14)
1930 Thomas P Stafford Weatherford Ok, USAF/astronaut (Gem 6 9, Ap 10 18)
1931 Anne Bancroft AKA Mrs Mel Brooks, Bronx, actress (Graduate)
1933 Charles Grassley (Sen-R-Iowa)
1933 Dorothy Loudon Boston Mass, actress (Garbo Talks, Garry Moore Show)
1933 Patricia Crowley Olyphant Pa, actress (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1934 Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly tennis, 1st woman grand slam (1953)
1934 Orlando Cepeda Giants player (NL MVP 1967)
1935 Ken Kesey author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)
1938 Paul Benedict Silver City NM, actor (Harry-The Jefferson)
1939 David Souter Weir NH, Supreme Court Justice (1990- )
1941 William Grut Sweden, penthathlete (Olympic-gold-1948)
1942 Beverly Aadland Hollywood Cal, Errol Flynn's last girlfriend
1942 Doris Brown US, 800m runner (Olympic-5th-1968)
1948 John Ritter Burbank Calif, actor (Jack-3's Company, Hooperman)
1955 Rita Rudner comedienne (Funny People)
1958 Daniel Nunez Cuba, weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1980)
1959 Hank Ilesic Edmonton, CFL punter, place kicker (Edmonton, Toronto)
1960 Terry Nihen Concord Mass, playmate (December, 1983)
1962 Dustin Nguyen actor (Harry-21 Jump Street)
1968 Suzy Cote Santa Barbara Calif, actress (Samantha-Guiding Light)

Deaths which occurred on September 17:

1908 Thomas Selfridge earlier aviator, dies in an air crash
1948 Count Folke Bernadotte UN mediator for Palestine, assassinated
           in Jerusalem by Jewish extremists
1961 Adnan Menderes PM of Turkey (1950-60), dies at 62
1980 Anastasio Somoza Former Nicaraguan Pres assassinated in Paraguay
1984 Richard Basehart actor, dies at 70 following several strokes
1989 Jay Stewart annoucer on Let's Make a Deal, commits suicide

Reported: MISSING in ACTION

( Expanded with full Bios, history, & MIA report )
 1965    KLENDA           DEAN ALBERT       MANHATTAN             KS       
 1966    LEETUN           DAREL D.          HETTINGER             ND       
 1967    GRUBB            PETER A.          SOUTH HAMPTON         NY       
 1967    NELLANS          WILLIAM L.        WARSAW                IN       
 1967    STAVAST          JOHN EDWARD       CLAREMONT             CA     03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV       ALIVE AND WELL 98
 1967    VENANZI          GERALD S.         TRENTON               NJ     03/14/73 RELEASED BY DRV      ALIVE IN 98
 1968    DAVIS            EDGAR F.          GOLDSBORO             NC       
 1972    BUELL            KENNETH R.        KANKAKEE              IL       
 1972    DONNELLY         VERNE G.          MARYSVILLE            CA     REM RETURNED ID'D 02/05/91  
 1972    GOETSCH          THOMAS AUGUST     MEMPHIS               TN       
 1972    TUROSE           MICHAEL STEPHEN   PARMA                 OH       
 1972    ZORN             THOMAS ONEAL JR.  WAYCROSS              GA

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On this day...

1394 Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI
1630 City of Boston forms
1776 Presidio of SF forms as a Spanish fort
1787 US constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention
1789 William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn
1819 1st whaling ship arrives in Hawaii
1861 1st day school for freedmen forms at Fortress Monroe Virginia
1862 Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of the Civil War
1863 Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada
1873 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University
1908 Thomas Selfridge becomes 1st fatality of powered flight
1911 1st transcontinental airplane flight, NY-Pasadena in 82 hrs 4 min
1920 National Football League organized in Canton Ohio
1922 Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
1927 Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco
1928 Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500
1928 Pitcher Ray Boggs hits 3 batters in 1 inning
1934 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording released (Beethoven's 5th)
1937 1st NFL game in Washington, DC; Redskins beat NY Giants 13-3
1939 Soviet Union invades Poland during WW II
1943 Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
1947 James Forrestal sworn in as 1st US secretary of defense
1949 Steamer "Noronic" burns at pier killing 128 (Toronto Canada)
1950 San Francisco 49ers (formerly AAFC) play 1st NFL game, lose 21-17
1952 "I am an American Day" & "Constituion Day" renamed "Citizenship Day"
1953 1st successful separation of Siamese twins
1953 Ernie Banks becomes Chicago Cubs 1st black player
1954 Heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano KOs Ezzard Charles in 8
1956 Black students enter Clay Ky elementary school
1956 Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of the year
1957 Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for 1st powered flight
1957 2 male attorneys "stand in" as actress Sophia Loren & producer Carlo Ponti wed by proxy in Juarez, Mexico
1959 Transit 1A, 1st navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit
1959 Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan & Korea
1961 Minnesota Vikings' 1st NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13)
1962 US space officials announce selection of 9 new astronauts
1963 "The Fugitive" premiers on ABC TV
1963 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32
1964 "Bewitched" premiers on ABC TV
1964 Beatles are paid a then record $150,000 for a concert (Kansas)
1964 Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000 & 2001
1964 Supremes release "Baby Love"
1967 "Mission Impossible" premieres on CBS-TV
1967 Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 (NH)
1967 New Orleans Saints 1st NFL game, they lose to LA Rams 27-13
1968 Gaylord Perry (Giants) no-hits St Louis Cardinals, 1-0
1968 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon
1972 "M*A*S*H," premiers on TV
1972 BART begins passenger service in SF
1974 Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Aust) in 23rd America's Cup
1975 Rollout of 1st space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)
1976 NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, Calif
1976 Ringo releases "Ringo's Rotogravure" album
1977 Dave Kingman hits his 1st Yankee homer, Reggie hits 2 more
1978 Begin, Sadat & Carter sign the Camp David accord
1978 Red Sox finally beat Yanks in Sept, 1978 7-3
1980 Solidarity labor union in Poland forms
1982 NJ Devils 1st exhibition game, beating the Caps 3-1 in Hershey Pa
1983 Vanessa Williams of NY became 1st black Miss America
1984 Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th PM succeeding John Turner
1984 Met's Dwight Goodin becomes 2nd to strikeout 32 over 2 cons games
1985 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1986 Marina Stepanova of USSR sets the 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94)
1986 US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice
1987 Phila celebrates 200th anniversary of the Constitution
1988 Jeff Reardon becomes 1st to record 40 or more saves in both AL & NL
1989 Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62
1989 NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision & returns America's Cup back to the US (from New Zealand)
1990 Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep NY Post publishing
1990 Soviet Union & Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties
1991 4,355 turn out to see the Expos play the NY Mets at Shea Stadium
1991 North & South Korea joins the UN




Holidays

Note: Some Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"

Brundi : Victory of Uprona
US : Baron Frederick von Steuben Day (1730)
US : Citizenship Day (replaces Constitution Day) (1952)
UN observance : Intl Day of Peace - - - - - ( Tuesday )

Religious Observances

Anglican : St Lambert's Day
Ang, RC : Ember Day
RC : Commemoration of Impression of the Stigmata of St Francis
RC : Memorial of Robert Bellarmine, bishop & doctor (opt)

Religious History

1656 Massachusetts enacted severe laws against Quakers. (At the time, government and religion were intricately interwoven; the line between blasphemy and treason was virtually nonexistent; and non-sacramental Quakerism gave the impression that the denomination was anti-government.)
1717 The first synod of the Presbyterian Church in America met in Philadelphia.
1776 Along the western coast of North America, a party of 247 Spanish colonists consecrated their newly-founded mission, known as San Francisco.
1787 The U.S. Constitution -- ratified on this date -- contained the following code under Article 6, Section 3: 'No religious tests shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.'
1868 Birth of Walter Gowans, Canadian missions pioneer. In 1893 he helped found the Sudan Interior Mission in Toronto. Today, SIM works with African nationals and specializes in church planting, medicine and broadcasting.

Source: William D. Blake. ALMANAC OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987.
Additional information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)

Thought for the day :

" Matrimony is the root of all evil. "
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