Enterprise (NASA's first space shuttle) is unveiled at Rockwell's plant in Palmdale, CA with most of the original cast of Star Trek in attendance (1976) - Sep. 17
Large fish kill discovered in the Gulf of Mexico dead zone is attributed to lack of oxygen due to the oil spill making waterways look like gravel roads (2010) - 9/17
Laura Ashley dies at age 60, ten days after she suffers an accidental fall down the stairs in her daughter's home in the Cotswolds (1985) - Sep. 17
Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida killing over 2,500 people making it the third deadliest natural disaster in US History (1928) - Sep. 17
Patricia Kennedy Lawford (sister to President JFK and wife to actor Peter Lawford) dies in her Manhattan home at age 82 from complications of pneumonia (2006) - Sep. 17
Philip IV of Spain (under which the Spanish empire reached its historical zenith spanning almost 3 billion acres) dies at age 60 in Madrid Spain (1665) - Sep. 17
Red Skelton (American comic TV and radio star) dies at age 84 from pneumonia (1997) - Sep. 17
Spiro Agnew (39th Vice-President of the USA) dies suddenly with an advanced, but previously undetected, form of leukemia at age 77 (1996) - Sep. 17
SS Noronic catches fire in the Toronto Harbor resulting in over 118 deaths (1949) - 9/17
Thomas Selfridge becomes the first person to die in a crash of a powered airplane (1908) - Sep. 17
The Primetime Emmy Awards (National Television Arts and Sciences) Awards on CBS-TV 8PM EDT (2017) - Sep. 17
God Bless America Day - 9/17
National Women's Friendship Day (3rd Sunday in September) occurs (2017) - Sep. 17
September 18, 2017
U.S. Air Force becomes a separate military service with the implementation of the National Security Act (1947) - Sep. 18
Blackpool Illuminations (an annual lights festival held each autumn that runs for 66 days) is first switched on (1879) - Sep. 18
CBS begins its first broadcasts under the name of Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System with William S. Paley as its founder (1927) - Sep. 18
Moscow is burned under Count Rastopchin's orders after the Battle of Borodino. The fire destroyed an est. 3/4 of Moscow before it ends (1812) - 9/18
Hurricane Fifi (a deadly hurricane that causes over 8,000 deaths in Honduras through flash flooding) washes away 14 bridges (1974) - Sep. 18
Jimi Hendrix dies in London under circumstances that have never been fully explained (1970) - 9/18
New-York Daily Times (name changed to The New York Times 6 years later) is founded by Henry Raymond and George Jones (1851) - Sep. 18
Oscar II of Sweden and Norway succeeds to the throne after his brother Charles XV dies (1872) - Sep. 18
Panic of 1873 was a severe nationwide economic depression in the US that lasted until 1877 (1873) - Sep. 18
Patty Hearst is arrested by the FBI for bank robbery (1975) - Sep. 18
Philip Augustus (Philip II of France) is crowned King (1180) - Sep. 18
Pyotr Stolypin (Prime Minister of Russia) is assassinated at the Kiev Opera House in front of Tsar Nicholas II (1911) - Sep. 18
Charles Tiffany and Teddy Young found "Tiffany and Young" (later to become Tiffany & Co.) as a stationery and fancy goods emporium (1837) - Sep. 18
Voyager I (NASA space probe) takes the first picture of the earth and moon together (1977) - Sep. 18
William S. Paley forms Columbia Phonographic Broadcasting System (1927) - Sep. 18
September 19, 2017
Bacon's Rebellion (an uprising in the Virginia Colony led by Nathaniel Bacon) results in Jamestown, VA (1676) - Sep. 19
Butterscotch Pudding Day - Sep. 19
Charlie chaplin (Academy Award winning comic actor) is denied entry into the US after leaving for the UK (1952) - Sep. 19
Giles Corey is pressed to death for being a witch during the Salem Witch Trials (1692) - Sep. 19
Otzi the iceman (well-preserved mummy from circa 3300BC) is discovered in the Schnalstal glacer by two German tourists (1991) - 9/19
Wheel of Fortune (US TV game show) premieres in primetime (1983) - Sep. 19
September 20, 2017
Arthur, Prince of Wales (first son of King Henry VII and older brother to Henry VIII) is born (1486) - Sep. 20
US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon is bombed killing 20 (1984) - Sep. 20
Kolka-Karmadon rock ice slide occurs (following a partial collapse of the Kolka Glacier in Russia) results in an avalanche and mudflow killing 125 people (2002) - 9/20
Chester A. Arthur is sworn into office as the 21st President of the United States after Garfield's death (1881) - Sep. 20
RMS QE2 is christened by Queen Elizabeth II and launched from Southampton, England (1967) - Sep. 20
STS-47 (Space Shuttle Endeavor) NASA's 50th mission into space, lands at Kennedy Space Center, FL (1992) - Sep.20
Muharram - Islamic New Year (2017) - 9/20
Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year) observed on the first day of Tishrei (2017) - 9/20 (sunset)
Navratri (nine nights) symbolises the triumph of good over evil and marks the start of autumn (2017) - Sep. 20
September 21, 2017
Armenia gains independence from the Soviet Union (1991) - Sep. 21
Belize gains independence from the UK (1981) - Sep. 21
Benedict Arnold hands over the plans of West Point to the British (Major Andre was captured on Sep. 23 and the plan failed-1780) - Sep. 21
Chichi earthquake in Taiwan (aka 921 earthquake-7.3 magnitude) causes over 2,000 deaths, 11,000 wounded and destroys 44,000 houses (1999) - Sep. 21
Empress Dowager Cixi resumes the role of regent for China and in a coup d'etat she takes control of the country once again (1898) - 9/21
Great Hurricane (known as "The Long Island Express" - Eastern Seaboard: Long Island, NY; CT and RI) 700 deaths, 4,500 homes destroyed (1938) - Sep. 21
Hindu Milk Miracle (Around the world when believers offered a spoon of milk to their God's idol, the liquid was consumed-1995) - 9/21
Hurricane Hugo (destructive category 5 hurricane) kills 82 people and leaves 56,000 homeless (1989) - Sep. 21
Malta gains independence from the UK (1961) - Sep. 21
Muroto Typhoon (Honshu Japan) is responsible for over 3,000 deaths, with 15,000 injured and 92,000 houses lost (1934) - 9/21
New York Sun newspaper prints the editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" in answer to an 8 year-old's query (1897) - 9/21
Sandra Day O'Connor is approved as the first female supreme court justice (1981) - Sep. 21
The Hobbit (J.R.R. Tokien's award-winning children's book and fantasy novel) is first published (1937) - 9/21
Russian Constitutional Crisis (Russian President Boris Yeltsin dissolves the Congress of People's Deputies and its Supreme Soviet-1993) - Sep. 21
XB-70 Valkyrie (a six-engined North American nuclear-armed bomber able to fly Mach 3 at high altitudes) has its maiden flight (1964) - Sep. 21
International Day of Peace - Sep. 21
Neighborhood Day - Sep. 21
September 22, 2017
Anna of Austria (Consort to Louis XIII of France) is born (1601) - Sep. 22
American Business Woman's Day (American holicay) - 9/22
Ben Jonson is arrested for manslaughter and placed in Newgate for killing actor Gabriel Spenser in a duel (1598) - Sep. 22
George III and his Queen Charlotte are crowned King and Queen in Westminster Abbey (1761) - Sep. 22
Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library (1991) - 9/22
Duke of York's Picture House (an art house cinema in Brighton England) is opened by the Mayor of Brighton (1910) - Sep. 22
George C. Scott (Academy award-winning actor) dies from a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm (1999) - 9/22
Gresford Disaster (one of Britain's worst coal mining disasters and mining accidents) 266 men die in a gas explosion (1934) - Sep. 22
Nathan Hale is hanged by the British for being a spy at age 21 (1776) - Sep. 22
Rosamunde Pilcher (British author of romance novels and mainstream women's fiction) is born (1924) - Sep. 22
Ice Cream Cone Day - 9/22
Sara Jane Moore attempts to assassinate President Gerald Ford (1975) - Sep. 22
Autumnal Equinox (2017) - Sep. 22
Native American Day - 4th Friday in September (2017) - Sep. 22
September 23, 2017
Teresa Lewis (American felon convicted of arranging for the murders of her husband and stepson) becomes the 1st woman executed by lethal injection in VA (2010) - Sep. 23
Bob Fosse (American choreographer married to Gwen Verdon) dies from a heart attack at age 60 (1987) - Sep. 23
Devils Tower (a monolithic volcanic neck in the Black Hills of Wyoming) is declared as the first US National Monument by Teddy Roosevelt (1906) - Sep. 23
Hurricane Jeanne strikes Haiti causing over 3,000 deaths (2004) - Sep. 23
Major John Andre (British Army Officer) is captured by the Americans (1780) - 9/23
Neptune (8th planet in our solar system) becomes the first planet discovered by mathematical prediction rather than visual observation (1846) - Sep. 23
Quantas Flight 1 (Quantas's London to Sydney flight) crashes as it overruns the runway while landing in heavy rain at Bangkok airport (1999) - Sep. 23
Sigmund Freud (Austrian psychiatrist) suffering from oral cancer, dies from an overdose of morphine administered by his friend and doctor (1939) - Sep. 23
William "Wilkie" Collins (English novelist and playwright best known for "The Woman in White) dies at age 65 (1889) - Sep. 23
Autumnal Equinox (Japan) - 9/23
September 24, 2017
Anthony Newley (English actor, singer and songwriter and collaborator with Leslie Bricusse) is born (1931) - Sep. 24
Sir Arthur Guinness (an Irish brewer and founder of the Guinness Brewery business) is born (1725) - Sep. 24
Black Friday (aka the Fitz-Gould scandal) was a financial panic caused by two speculators out to corner the gold market on the NY Exchange (1869) - 9/24
Catherine of Saxe-Lauenburg (first consort of Gustav of Sweden and Queen from 1531 until her death in 1535) is born (1513) - Sep. 24
Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin (Russian general-field marshall and favorite of Catherine II the Great) is born (1739) - Sep. 24
Hurricane Rita (made landfall in Texas and Louisiana as a category 3) completely destroyed some coastal communities (2005) - Sep. 24
Gold Star Mother's Day (held the last Sunday in September) honors those mothers who have lost sons or daughters in a war (2017) - Sep. 24
Pepin the Short (King of the Franks and father of Charlemagne) died (768) - Sep. 24
Saturn's Great White Spot (formed by periodic storms large enough to be visible by telescop from Earth) is observed (1990) - 9/24
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