Post by farmgal on Sept 15, 2012 23:39:02 GMT -5
September 17th is the 261st day of this leap year in the Gregorian calendar.
There are 105 days remaining until the end of the year.
Days until Election Day, Tuesday November 6, 2012: 50
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1394 King Charles VI of France (1368–1422) ordered all Jews expelled from France.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VI_of_France
1577 The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Bergerac
1631 Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Breitenfeld_(1631)
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.)
1683 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek
1717 The first synod of the Presbyterian Church in America met in Philadelphia.
1716 Jean Thurel enlists in the Touraine Regiment at the age of 17, the first day of a military career that would span for over 90 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Thurel
1717 The first synod of the Presbyterian Church in America met in Philadelphia.
Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec
(John Trumbull, 1786)
1775 American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Canada_(1775)
1776 The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or Royal Presidio of San Francisco) is consecrated in New Spain by 247 Spanish colonists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_of_San_Francisco
1778 The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Pitt
"We the People", as it appears in an original copy of the Constitution
1787 The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It contained the following provision 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.' On September 17, 1787, members of the Constitutional Convention signed the final draft of the Constitution. Two days earlier, when a final vote was called, Edmund Randolph called for another convention to carefully review the Constitution as it stood. This motion, supported by George Mason and Elbridge Gerry, was voted down and the Constitution adopted.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
1809 Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fredrikshamn
1814 Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key
1843 Wilhelm Sihler (1801–1885) sailed from Germany in order to succeed F. C. D. Wyneken as pastor of Saint Paul Lutheran Church (Fort Wayne, Indiana). A proponent for Christian education, Wilhelm Sihler founded Concordia Theological Seminary, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Sihler
1849 American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman
1859 Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Emperor Norton I" of the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_A._Norton
1862 American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam
The 40th street side of the site of the former Allegheny Arsenal. The powder magazine can be see on the right.
1862 American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Arsenal#Explosion
"Battle of the Yellow Sea" by Korechika
1894 The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yalu_River_(1894)
1900 Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabitac#History
1908 The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Selfridge
1916 World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen
1920 The American Professional Football Association (later renamed National Football League) is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Professional_Football_Association
1924 The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Defence_Corps
1928 The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okeechobee_Hurricane
1939 World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Defensive_War_of_1939
1939 World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Courageous_(50)
1940 World War II: Following the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion
1941 World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vsevobuch
1943 World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryansk#History
1944 World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden
1948 The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_(group)
1949 The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Noronic
1957 Malaysia joins the United Nations.
1961 The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civic_Arena_(Pittsburgh)
1974 Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
1976 The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise
1978 The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords
1980 After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdañsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)
1983 Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_L._Williams
1991 Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
Linux kernel 3.0.0 booting
1991 The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel
1992 An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
1993 Last Russian troops leave Poland.
2001 The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 Attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
2006 Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourpeaked_Mountain
2007 AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL
2011 Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zucotti Park, New York City.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Births~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1550 Pope Paul V (d 1621)
1639 Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d 1725)
1721 Samuel Hopkins was born on a farm near Waterbury, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale in 1741 and two years later was ordained a Congregational minister. A follower of Jonathan Edwards, his stern presentation of New England theology and his outspoken opposition to slavery made him a leader in his denomination. He wrote in favor of emancipation of African-Americans as early as 1776 and a systematic theology titled System of Doctrines Contained in Divine Revelation, Explained and Defended.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hopkins_(1721%E2%80%931803)
1730 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, (d 1794) Prussian army officer, served as inspector general and Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is credited with being one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drills, tactics, and disciplines. He wrote the Revolutionary War Drill Manual, the book that served as the standard United States drill manual until the War of 1812. He served as General George Washington's chief of staff in the final years of the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben
1739 John Rutledge, (d 1800) 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rutledge
1773 Jonathan Alder, American settler (d 1849)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Alder
1839 Ira Davenport, American magician (d 1911)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_Brothers
1854 David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d 1929)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dunbar_Buick
1868 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.
Despite the African heat, Walter Gowans shivered. He was miserable; malaria had laid him low. Seeing the desperate need of the Sudan for the gospel he had left his home in Canada, but here, barely a year later, in 1894, the mission pioneer was dying, separated from his co-workers.
Two other men had come out with him. The first, Rowland Bingham, had become so ill he had remained on the coast to procure supplies and act as a go-between. Thomas Kent, of Buffalo, New York, had traveled inland with Walter, but gone back to the coast to bring up the needed supplies. Meanwhile, an Emir who was raiding for slaves captured Walter, who was starving. When released, Walter tried to get back to the coast. He died alone in a town called Girku.
Walter was only twenty-six years old. Born on this day, September 17, 1868, he had developed a passion for the peoples of the Sudan. At that time, the name "Sudan" referred to all of Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia.
Rowland and Thomas were in the Sudan because of Walter. Walter's mother was sold on her son's vision to carry the gospel to the sixty million people of north central Africa. She invited preacher Rowland Bingham to her home. In her parlor, she laid Walter's dream before him. He was deeply moved. When Rowland left the Gowan residence that day, he was determined to join Walter. Hearing of their decision, the third man, Thomas Kent of Buffalo, New York, teamed up with them.
Unable to interest established mission agencies in their work, the three set out to tackle the work alone. They landed in Lagos, Nigeria. Their hope was to establish a work 500 miles inland in one of the most treacherous regions of the world. But the three immediately found themselves sick.
Thomas died, having brought the supplies up to where he had left Walter. Rowland was still desperately ill; and returned to Canada, where he took Walter's few belongings to Mrs. Gowan.
As Rowland remembered it, Mrs. Gowan met him with extended hand. "We stood there in silence. Then she said these words: 'Well, Mr. Bingham, I would rather have had Walter go out to the Sudan and die there, all alone, than have him home today, disobeying his Lord.' "
Walter's dream did not die with him. In 1900, Rowland Bingham made a second attempt to establish a mission work in Sudan. Again he failed. But the following year, he managed to send a team into the Sudan, and it established a base 500 miles from Lagos.
Walter's vision resulted in the formation of the Sudan Interior Mission. In the 1980s this mission merged with two others to become the Society for International Ministries. Today, thanks to such sacrifice, forty percent of Africans claim to be Christians.
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630546/
1879 Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
1881 Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
1883 William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)
1884 Charles Tomlinson Griffes, (d 1920) American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and for voice.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Tomlinson_Griffes
1828 Andrew Gordon,(d 13 Aug 1887) Presbyterian missionary to India (West Pakistan), was born in Putnam, New York.
1890 Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)
1897 Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
1900 John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
1900 Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
1903 Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)
1904 Jerry Colonna, American comedian and entertainer (d. 1986)
1904 Edgar G. Ulmer, Austrian-American film director (d. 1972)
1906 Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist (d. 2010)
1907 Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
1918 Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
1923 Hank Williams, (d 1953) American singer-songwriter and musician
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Williams
1923 Ralph Sharon, American jazz pianist
1925 John List, American murderer (d. 2008)
1926 Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)
1926 Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007)
1926 Hovie Lister, American gospel pianist (d. 2001)
1926 Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Jewish Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 2007)
1927 George Blanda, American football player (d. 2010)
1928 Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall (d 3 Oct 1998) British actor and photographer. His film roles included Cornelius and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes film series. He began his long acting career as a child in How Green Was My Valley, My Friend Flicka and Lassie Come Home, and as an adult appeared most frequently as a character actor on stage and television. He served in several positions on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as well as contributed to various charities related to the motion picture industry and film preservation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddy_McDowall
1929 Pat Crowley, American actress
1929 Sil Austin, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
1930 David Huddleston, American actor
1930 Edgar Dean Mitchell, American astronaut
1930 Jim Rohn, American business philosopher (d. 2009)
1930 Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
1931 Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
1932 Robert B. Parker, American author (d. 2010)
1933 Chuck Grassley, American politician
1933 Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
1933 Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)
1933 Patricia "Pat" Crowley American film and television actress. Crowley was featured in the film Forever Female (1953), starring Ginger Rogers and William Holden. She starred alongside the comedy team of Martin and Lewis in the 3-D film Money from Home (1953), as well as in their final film together Hollywood or Bust (1956).
1934 Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
1935 Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
1936 Michael Hennagin, American composer and university professor
1937 Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1938 Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
1938 Perry Robinson, American jazz clarinetist and composer
Paul Benedict and Zara Cully, The Jeffersons, 1975
1938 Paul Benedict (d 1 Dec 2008) American actor who made numerous appearances in television and movies beginning in 1965. He was known for his roles as The Number Painter on the popular PBS children's show Sesame Street, and as the quirky English neighbor Harry Bentley on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Benedict
1939 Shelby Flint, American singer
1939 David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1941 Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)
1942 Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (d. 2012)
1942 Doris Brown, first women to run a sub-5 minute mile indoors, clocking 4:52. At one point in her career she held every women’s national and world record from 440 yards up through one mile. Brown is perhaps best remembered for her five victories in the International Cross Country Championships (1967–1971), and she also represented the United States at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics games. In 1976, Brown won the Vancouver International Marathon and placed second in the New York City Marathon. She coached track and cross country at Seattle Pacific University for four decades.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Brown
1945 Phil Jackson, American basketball player and NBA head coach
1948 Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)
1948 John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
1950 Fee Waybill, American musician (The Tubes)
1951 Cassandra Peterson, American actress
1955 Charles Martinet, American actor
1955 Scott Simpson, American golfer
1956 Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher
1956 Thad Bosley. American major league baseball player
1956 Rita Rudner, American comedian
1960 Kevin Clash, American actor and puppeteer
1960 John Franco, American baseball player
1961 Jim Cornette, American professional wrestling manager
1961 Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
1962 Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor
1962 BeBe Winans, gospel and R&B singer
1963 Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards
1963 Amy Roloff, American reality star
1963 William Shockley (actor), American actor
1965 Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi)
1965 Bryan Singer, American director
1965 Kyle Chandler, American actor
1966 Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
1967 Malik Yoba, American actor
1968 Anastacia, American singer
1968 Lord Jamar American emcee and actor
1969 Matthew Settle, American actor
1969 Steady B, American rapper and emcee
1970 Mark Brunell, American football player
1970 Jim Conroy, American voice actor (Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman)
1971 Nate Berkus, American television host
1972 Brian Henry, American poet
1972 Bobby Lee, American comedian
1974 Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
1974 Mirah, American musician
1975 Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
1975 Austin St. John, American actor
1975 Constantine Maroulis, American singer
1979 Akin Ayodele, American football player
1979 Billy Miller, American actor
1980 Danny Haren, American baseball player
1981 Casey Janssen, American baseball player
1982 Hope Larson, American illustrator and cartoonist
1984 Mary Descenza, American swimmer
454 Dioscorus the Great, patriarch of Alexandria
1179 Hildegard of Bingen, (b 1098) German Benedictine abbess, composer, mystic, philosopher, visionary, polymath, author and preacher.
Contemporaries called her "Sybil of the Rhine." By any measure she was an extraordinary woman, one of the few who transcended the limitations on her sex during the Middle Ages to alter the events of her own time and imprint her personality on the future.
At five years of age, Hildegard of Bingen began to see visions; at eight, she joined her aunt Jutta, a recluse (one who led a solitary life for religious purposes). When fourteen she became a nun. Much of her life she was abbess of a Benedictine convent.
Somewhere along the way she acquired an education. But not until she was 42 did she begin to write the books which made her famous. Her output was prodigious and varied. She compiled an encyclopedia of natural science and clinical medicine. Her medical works included exorcisms along with much medieval lore. She wrote the first known morality play and a song cycle from which this quote is taken:
It is very hard to resist what tastes of the apple.
Set us upright Savior, Christ.... O most beautiful form!
O most sweet savor of desirable delight!
We ever sigh after you in fearful exile,
when will we see you and dwell with you?
Hildegard's hundreds of letters of advice and rebuke went out to kings and commoners alike. She wrote biographies of two saints. This output, coming from the pen of a woman, was extraordinary in an age when women seldom learned to read. She was considered a prophetess. St. Bernard of Clairvaux and popes endorsed her visions. All listened to her.
Her book of visions, Scivias, took her ten years to complete. She incorporated 26 drawings of things she had seen in her strange waking visions. Modern medicine suggests that these shimmering lines of light were actually the auras associated with migraines. Her own account suggests more. "...when I was forty-two years and seven months old, heaven was opened and a fiery light of exceeding brilliance came and permeated my whole brain, and inflamed my whole heart and my whole breast, not like a burning but a warming flame, as the sun warms anything its rays touch." Immediately she understood the meaning of the scriptures.
At the age of 60, Hildegard began to make preaching tours. The theme of her sermons was that the church was corrupt and needed cleansing. She scathed easygoing, fat clergymen and those who were "lukewarm and sluggish" in serving God's justice, or negligent in expounding the depths of scripture.
Hildegard died at age 82 on this day, September 17, 1179. Although largely forgotten for many generations, awareness of her life surged in the mid 1990s with television programs, books and music releases devoted to her. And not without cause, for she was one of the most talented and original women of any era.
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11629806/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen
1575 Heinrich Bullinger, (b 1504) Swiss religious reformer, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Zurich church and pastor at Grossmünster. A much less controversial figure than John Calvin or Martin Luther, his importance has long been underestimated; recent research shows that he was one of the most influential theologians of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.
1621 Robert Bellarmine, (b 1542) Italian Jesuit and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation. He was canonized in 1930 and named a Doctor of the Church.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bellarmine
1676 Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b 1626)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbatai_Zevi
1683 John Campanius, (b 15 Aug 1601, Stockholm). Lutheran missionary to American Indians.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campanius
Silhouette of Benjamin Bourne
1808 Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Bourne
1858 Dred Scott, American slave who unsuccessfully sued for citizenship (b 1795)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott
1899 Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b 1842)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alfred_Pillsbury
1908 Thomas Selfridge, (b 1882) First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, earlier aviator, dies in an air crash.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Selfridge
1925 Carl Eytel, German-American artist working in Palm Springs, California (b. 1862)
1946 Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1948 Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (b. 1887)
1953 David Munson, American athlete (b 1884)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Munson
1953 Frank Carl Streufert, secretary of LCMS missions from 1932 to 1953, (b 30 Apr 1874, Chicago).
1951 Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
1968 Suzy Cote Santa Barbara Calif, actress (Samantha-Guiding Light)
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1973 Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Winterhalter
1984 Richard Basehart, American actor (b 1914)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Basehart
1989 Jay Stewart (born Jay Fix 6 Sep 1918) American television and radio announcer known primarily for his work on game shows. One of his longest-lasting roles was as the announcer on the game show Let's Make a Deal, which he announced throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Other shows for which he announced regularly include the Reg Grundy productions Scrabble and Sale of the Century, as well as the Jack Barry-Dan Enright productions The Joker's Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough and Bullseye. Stewart committed suicide in 1989.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Stewart
1992 Roger Wagner, American choral conductor (b. 1914)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Wagner
1993 Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
1994 Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
1996 Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
1997 Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b 1913)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Skelton
1998 Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
2005 Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
2006 Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b 1924)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Kennedy_Lawford
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Albert Avogadro
Ariadne of Phrygia
Hildegard of Bingen
Lambert
Robert Bellarmine
Satyrus of Milan
Socrates and Stephen
September 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Sophia and her three daughters Faith (Vera the Martyr), Hope (Nadezhda), and Love (Lyubov) at Rome (137)
Martyr Agathocleia (230)
Martyr Theodota at Nicaea (230)
Martyrs Archbishop Peleus, Archbishop Nilus, Presbyter Zeno, noblemen Patermuthius and Elias, and 156 others of Palestine
Martyrs Lucy and her son Geminian of Rome (303)
Hieromartyr Heraclides and Hieromartyr Myron, bishops of Cyprus
Hieromartyr Lambert of Maastricht
1000 martyrs of Egypt
Martyrs Charalampus, Pantelon, and others
Saint Anastasius of Cyprus, monk
Saint Eusipius of Cyprus, monk
Other Commemorations
Repose of Blessed Agapitus, disciple of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk (1825)
Repose of Blessed Matthew of Petersburg (1904)
Constitution Day (observed on the previous Friday if it falls Saturday, the following Monday if on a Sunday), Citizenship Day, Von Steuben Day. (United States)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_17
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_17_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
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www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html
www.christianity.com/HistoryByDay/0917/
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih0917.htm
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1394 King Charles VI of France (1368–1422) ordered all Jews expelled from France.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_VI_of_France
1577 The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_of_Bergerac
1631 Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Breitenfeld_(1631)
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.)
1683 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek
1717 The first synod of the Presbyterian Church in America met in Philadelphia.
1716 Jean Thurel enlists in the Touraine Regiment at the age of 17, the first day of a military career that would span for over 90 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Thurel
1717 The first synod of the Presbyterian Church in America met in Philadelphia.
Death of General Montgomery in the Attack on Quebec
(John Trumbull, 1786)
1775 American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasion_of_Canada_(1775)
1776 The Presidio of San Francisco (originally, El Presidio Real de San Francisco or Royal Presidio of San Francisco) is consecrated in New Spain by 247 Spanish colonists.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidio_of_San_Francisco
1778 The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fort_Pitt
"We the People", as it appears in an original copy of the Constitution
1787 The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It contained the following provision 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.' On September 17, 1787, members of the Constitutional Convention signed the final draft of the Constitution. Two days earlier, when a final vote was called, Edmund Randolph called for another convention to carefully review the Constitution as it stood. This motion, supported by George Mason and Elbridge Gerry, was voted down and the Constitution adopted.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution
1809 Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Fredrikshamn
1814 Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Scott_Key
1843 Wilhelm Sihler (1801–1885) sailed from Germany in order to succeed F. C. D. Wyneken as pastor of Saint Paul Lutheran Church (Fort Wayne, Indiana). A proponent for Christian education, Wilhelm Sihler founded Concordia Theological Seminary, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Sihler
1849 American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harriet_Tubman
1859 Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Emperor Norton I" of the United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_A._Norton
1862 American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American history.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Antietam
The 40th street side of the site of the former Allegheny Arsenal. The powder magazine can be see on the right.
1862 American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegheny_Arsenal#Explosion
"Battle of the Yellow Sea" by Korechika
1894 The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yalu_River_(1894)
1900 Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabitac#History
1908 The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Selfridge
1916 World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_von_Richthofen
1920 The American Professional Football Association (later renamed National Football League) is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Professional_Football_Association
1924 The Border Defence Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Defence_Corps
1928 The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okeechobee_Hurricane
1939 World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_Defensive_War_of_1939
1939 World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Courageous_(50)
1940 World War II: Following the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Sea_Lion
1941 World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vsevobuch
1943 World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryansk#History
1944 World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden
1948 The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehi_(group)
1949 The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Noronic
1957 Malaysia joins the United Nations.
1961 The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh.
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1974 Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
1976 The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Enterprise
1978 The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_David_Accords
1980 After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdañsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidarity_(Polish_trade_union)
1983 Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanessa_L._Williams
1991 Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
Linux kernel 3.0.0 booting
1991 The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel
1992 An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
1993 Last Russian troops leave Poland.
2001 The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 Attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
2006 Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourpeaked_Mountain
2007 AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL
2011 Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zucotti Park, New York City.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Births~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
1550 Pope Paul V (d 1621)
1639 Hans Herr, Mennonite bishop (d 1725)
1721 Samuel Hopkins was born on a farm near Waterbury, Connecticut. He graduated from Yale in 1741 and two years later was ordained a Congregational minister. A follower of Jonathan Edwards, his stern presentation of New England theology and his outspoken opposition to slavery made him a leader in his denomination. He wrote in favor of emancipation of African-Americans as early as 1776 and a systematic theology titled System of Doctrines Contained in Divine Revelation, Explained and Defended.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hopkins_(1721%E2%80%931803)
1730 Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, (d 1794) Prussian army officer, served as inspector general and Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is credited with being one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drills, tactics, and disciplines. He wrote the Revolutionary War Drill Manual, the book that served as the standard United States drill manual until the War of 1812. He served as General George Washington's chief of staff in the final years of the war.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Wilhelm_von_Steuben
1739 John Rutledge, (d 1800) 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rutledge
1773 Jonathan Alder, American settler (d 1849)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Alder
1839 Ira Davenport, American magician (d 1911)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davenport_Brothers
1854 David Dunbar Buick, American automobile pioneer (d 1929)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Dunbar_Buick
1868 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.
Despite the African heat, Walter Gowans shivered. He was miserable; malaria had laid him low. Seeing the desperate need of the Sudan for the gospel he had left his home in Canada, but here, barely a year later, in 1894, the mission pioneer was dying, separated from his co-workers.
Two other men had come out with him. The first, Rowland Bingham, had become so ill he had remained on the coast to procure supplies and act as a go-between. Thomas Kent, of Buffalo, New York, had traveled inland with Walter, but gone back to the coast to bring up the needed supplies. Meanwhile, an Emir who was raiding for slaves captured Walter, who was starving. When released, Walter tried to get back to the coast. He died alone in a town called Girku.
Walter was only twenty-six years old. Born on this day, September 17, 1868, he had developed a passion for the peoples of the Sudan. At that time, the name "Sudan" referred to all of Africa from Senegal to Ethiopia.
Rowland and Thomas were in the Sudan because of Walter. Walter's mother was sold on her son's vision to carry the gospel to the sixty million people of north central Africa. She invited preacher Rowland Bingham to her home. In her parlor, she laid Walter's dream before him. He was deeply moved. When Rowland left the Gowan residence that day, he was determined to join Walter. Hearing of their decision, the third man, Thomas Kent of Buffalo, New York, teamed up with them.
Unable to interest established mission agencies in their work, the three set out to tackle the work alone. They landed in Lagos, Nigeria. Their hope was to establish a work 500 miles inland in one of the most treacherous regions of the world. But the three immediately found themselves sick.
Thomas died, having brought the supplies up to where he had left Walter. Rowland was still desperately ill; and returned to Canada, where he took Walter's few belongings to Mrs. Gowan.
As Rowland remembered it, Mrs. Gowan met him with extended hand. "We stood there in silence. Then she said these words: 'Well, Mr. Bingham, I would rather have had Walter go out to the Sudan and die there, all alone, than have him home today, disobeying his Lord.' "
Walter's dream did not die with him. In 1900, Rowland Bingham made a second attempt to establish a mission work in Sudan. Again he failed. But the following year, he managed to send a team into the Sudan, and it established a base 500 miles from Lagos.
Walter's vision resulted in the formation of the Sudan Interior Mission. In the 1980s this mission merged with two others to become the Society for International Ministries. Today, thanks to such sacrifice, forty percent of Africans claim to be Christians.
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11630546/
1879 Rube Foster, American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930)
1881 Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
1883 William Carlos Williams, American writer (d. 1963)
1884 Charles Tomlinson Griffes, (d 1920) American composer for piano, chamber ensembles and for voice.
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1828 Andrew Gordon,(d 13 Aug 1887) Presbyterian missionary to India (West Pakistan), was born in Putnam, New York.
1890 Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (d. 1972)
1897 Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
1900 John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
1900 Hughie Critz, baseball player (d. 1980)
1903 Frank O'Connor, Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966)
1904 Jerry Colonna, American comedian and entertainer (d. 1986)
1904 Edgar G. Ulmer, Austrian-American film director (d. 1972)
1906 Edgar Wayburn, American environmentalist (d. 2010)
1907 Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
1918 Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
1923 Hank Williams, (d 1953) American singer-songwriter and musician
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1923 Ralph Sharon, American jazz pianist
1925 John List, American murderer (d. 2008)
1926 Bill Black, American musician (d. 1965)
1926 Curtis Harrington, American film director (d. 2007)
1926 Hovie Lister, American gospel pianist (d. 2001)
1926 Jean-Marie Lustiger, French Jewish Roman Catholic Cardinal (d. 2007)
1927 George Blanda, American football player (d. 2010)
1928 Roderick Andrew Anthony Jude "Roddy" McDowall (d 3 Oct 1998) British actor and photographer. His film roles included Cornelius and Caesar in the Planet of the Apes film series. He began his long acting career as a child in How Green Was My Valley, My Friend Flicka and Lassie Come Home, and as an adult appeared most frequently as a character actor on stage and television. He served in several positions on the Board of Governors for the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences as well as contributed to various charities related to the motion picture industry and film preservation.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roddy_McDowall
1929 Pat Crowley, American actress
1929 Sil Austin, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2001)
1930 David Huddleston, American actor
1930 Edgar Dean Mitchell, American astronaut
1930 Jim Rohn, American business philosopher (d. 2009)
1930 Thomas Stafford, American astronaut
1931 Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
1932 Robert B. Parker, American author (d. 2010)
1933 Chuck Grassley, American politician
1933 Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
1933 Claude Provost, National Hockey League player (d. 1984)
1933 Patricia "Pat" Crowley American film and television actress. Crowley was featured in the film Forever Female (1953), starring Ginger Rogers and William Holden. She starred alongside the comedy team of Martin and Lewis in the 3-D film Money from Home (1953), as well as in their final film together Hollywood or Bust (1956).
1934 Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
1935 Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
1936 Michael Hennagin, American composer and university professor
1937 Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1938 Bobby Wine, American Major League Baseball player
1938 Perry Robinson, American jazz clarinetist and composer
Paul Benedict and Zara Cully, The Jeffersons, 1975
1938 Paul Benedict (d 1 Dec 2008) American actor who made numerous appearances in television and movies beginning in 1965. He was known for his roles as The Number Painter on the popular PBS children's show Sesame Street, and as the quirky English neighbor Harry Bentley on the CBS sitcom The Jeffersons.
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1939 Shelby Flint, American singer
1939 David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1941 Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman (d. 2005)
1942 Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (d. 2012)
1942 Doris Brown, first women to run a sub-5 minute mile indoors, clocking 4:52. At one point in her career she held every women’s national and world record from 440 yards up through one mile. Brown is perhaps best remembered for her five victories in the International Cross Country Championships (1967–1971), and she also represented the United States at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics games. In 1976, Brown won the Vancouver International Marathon and placed second in the New York City Marathon. She coached track and cross country at Seattle Pacific University for four decades.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doris_Brown
1945 Phil Jackson, American basketball player and NBA head coach
1948 Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist (d. 2000)
1948 John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
1950 Fee Waybill, American musician (The Tubes)
1951 Cassandra Peterson, American actress
1955 Charles Martinet, American actor
1955 Scott Simpson, American golfer
1956 Brian Andreas, American writer, sculptor, painter and publisher
1956 Thad Bosley. American major league baseball player
1956 Rita Rudner, American comedian
1960 Kevin Clash, American actor and puppeteer
1960 John Franco, American baseball player
1961 Jim Cornette, American professional wrestling manager
1961 Ty Tabor, American guitarist and singer (King's X)
1962 Dustin Nguyen, Vietnamese American actor
1962 BeBe Winans, gospel and R&B singer
1963 Wendy Northcutt, Author of the Darwin Awards
1963 Amy Roloff, American reality star
1963 William Shockley (actor), American actor
1965 Guy Picciotto, American musician (Rites of Spring, Fugazi)
1965 Bryan Singer, American director
1965 Kyle Chandler, American actor
1966 Doug E. Fresh, American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
1967 Malik Yoba, American actor
1968 Anastacia, American singer
1968 Lord Jamar American emcee and actor
1969 Matthew Settle, American actor
1969 Steady B, American rapper and emcee
1970 Mark Brunell, American football player
1970 Jim Conroy, American voice actor (Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman)
1971 Nate Berkus, American television host
1972 Brian Henry, American poet
1972 Bobby Lee, American comedian
1974 Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
1974 Mirah, American musician
1975 Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
1975 Austin St. John, American actor
1975 Constantine Maroulis, American singer
1979 Akin Ayodele, American football player
1979 Billy Miller, American actor
1980 Danny Haren, American baseball player
1981 Casey Janssen, American baseball player
1982 Hope Larson, American illustrator and cartoonist
1984 Mary Descenza, American swimmer
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Deaths~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
454 Dioscorus the Great, patriarch of Alexandria
1179 Hildegard of Bingen, (b 1098) German Benedictine abbess, composer, mystic, philosopher, visionary, polymath, author and preacher.
Contemporaries called her "Sybil of the Rhine." By any measure she was an extraordinary woman, one of the few who transcended the limitations on her sex during the Middle Ages to alter the events of her own time and imprint her personality on the future.
At five years of age, Hildegard of Bingen began to see visions; at eight, she joined her aunt Jutta, a recluse (one who led a solitary life for religious purposes). When fourteen she became a nun. Much of her life she was abbess of a Benedictine convent.
Somewhere along the way she acquired an education. But not until she was 42 did she begin to write the books which made her famous. Her output was prodigious and varied. She compiled an encyclopedia of natural science and clinical medicine. Her medical works included exorcisms along with much medieval lore. She wrote the first known morality play and a song cycle from which this quote is taken:
It is very hard to resist what tastes of the apple.
Set us upright Savior, Christ.... O most beautiful form!
O most sweet savor of desirable delight!
We ever sigh after you in fearful exile,
when will we see you and dwell with you?
Hildegard's hundreds of letters of advice and rebuke went out to kings and commoners alike. She wrote biographies of two saints. This output, coming from the pen of a woman, was extraordinary in an age when women seldom learned to read. She was considered a prophetess. St. Bernard of Clairvaux and popes endorsed her visions. All listened to her.
Her book of visions, Scivias, took her ten years to complete. She incorporated 26 drawings of things she had seen in her strange waking visions. Modern medicine suggests that these shimmering lines of light were actually the auras associated with migraines. Her own account suggests more. "...when I was forty-two years and seven months old, heaven was opened and a fiery light of exceeding brilliance came and permeated my whole brain, and inflamed my whole heart and my whole breast, not like a burning but a warming flame, as the sun warms anything its rays touch." Immediately she understood the meaning of the scriptures.
At the age of 60, Hildegard began to make preaching tours. The theme of her sermons was that the church was corrupt and needed cleansing. She scathed easygoing, fat clergymen and those who were "lukewarm and sluggish" in serving God's justice, or negligent in expounding the depths of scripture.
Hildegard died at age 82 on this day, September 17, 1179. Although largely forgotten for many generations, awareness of her life surged in the mid 1990s with television programs, books and music releases devoted to her. And not without cause, for she was one of the most talented and original women of any era.
www.christianity.com/ChurchHistory/11629806/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hildegard_of_Bingen
1575 Heinrich Bullinger, (b 1504) Swiss religious reformer, the successor of Huldrych Zwingli as head of the Zurich church and pastor at Grossmünster. A much less controversial figure than John Calvin or Martin Luther, his importance has long been underestimated; recent research shows that he was one of the most influential theologians of the Protestant Reformation in the 16th century.
1621 Robert Bellarmine, (b 1542) Italian Jesuit and a Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He was one of the most important figures in the Counter-Reformation. He was canonized in 1930 and named a Doctor of the Church.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bellarmine
1676 Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b 1626)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbatai_Zevi
1683 John Campanius, (b 15 Aug 1601, Stockholm). Lutheran missionary to American Indians.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Campanius
Silhouette of Benjamin Bourne
1808 Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Bourne
1858 Dred Scott, American slave who unsuccessfully sued for citizenship (b 1795)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dred_Scott
1899 Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b 1842)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Alfred_Pillsbury
1908 Thomas Selfridge, (b 1882) First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army, earlier aviator, dies in an air crash.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Selfridge
1925 Carl Eytel, German-American artist working in Palm Springs, California (b. 1862)
1946 Frank Burke, American baseball player (b. 1880)
1948 Ruth Benedict, American anthropologist (b. 1887)
1953 David Munson, American athlete (b 1884)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Munson
1953 Frank Carl Streufert, secretary of LCMS missions from 1932 to 1953, (b 30 Apr 1874, Chicago).
1951 Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
1968 Suzy Cote Santa Barbara Calif, actress (Samantha-Guiding Light)
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1973 Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Winterhalter
1984 Richard Basehart, American actor (b 1914)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Basehart
1989 Jay Stewart (born Jay Fix 6 Sep 1918) American television and radio announcer known primarily for his work on game shows. One of his longest-lasting roles was as the announcer on the game show Let's Make a Deal, which he announced throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Other shows for which he announced regularly include the Reg Grundy productions Scrabble and Sale of the Century, as well as the Jack Barry-Dan Enright productions The Joker's Wild, Tic-Tac-Dough and Bullseye. Stewart committed suicide in 1989.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Stewart
1992 Roger Wagner, American choral conductor (b. 1914)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Wagner
1993 Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
1994 Vitas Gerulaitis, American tennis player (b. 1954)
1996 Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
1997 Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b 1913)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Skelton
1998 Ted Binion, Las Vegas casino heir (b. 1943)
2005 Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)
2006 Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite (b 1924)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patricia_Kennedy_Lawford
Holidays and observances
Christian Feast Day:
Albert Avogadro
Ariadne of Phrygia
Hildegard of Bingen
Lambert
Robert Bellarmine
Satyrus of Milan
Socrates and Stephen
September 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Saints
Martyrs Sophia and her three daughters Faith (Vera the Martyr), Hope (Nadezhda), and Love (Lyubov) at Rome (137)
Martyr Agathocleia (230)
Martyr Theodota at Nicaea (230)
Martyrs Archbishop Peleus, Archbishop Nilus, Presbyter Zeno, noblemen Patermuthius and Elias, and 156 others of Palestine
Martyrs Lucy and her son Geminian of Rome (303)
Hieromartyr Heraclides and Hieromartyr Myron, bishops of Cyprus
Hieromartyr Lambert of Maastricht
1000 martyrs of Egypt
Martyrs Charalampus, Pantelon, and others
Saint Anastasius of Cyprus, monk
Saint Eusipius of Cyprus, monk
Other Commemorations
Repose of Blessed Agapitus, disciple of Saint Tikhon of Zadonsk (1825)
Repose of Blessed Matthew of Petersburg (1904)
Constitution Day (observed on the previous Friday if it falls Saturday, the following Monday if on a Sunday), Citizenship Day, Von Steuben Day. (United States)
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_17_(Eastern_Orthodox_liturgics)
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www.daysuntil.com/Election-Day/index.html
www.christianity.com/HistoryByDay/0917/
www.lutheranhistory.org/history/tih0917.htm