Today in History

Sept 17th
1787
The U.S. Constitution is signed by delegates in Philadelphia
1964
ABC comedy'Bewitched''64-'72 debuted, about a young witch'Samantha' who tries to abandon her witch powers to please her mortal husband,Darrin Stephens.They married in the 1st episode but nothing was the same after that.The show starred Elizabeth Montgomery'Samantha',Dick York who played 'Darrin' left the show in'69 for health problems.He was replaced by Dick Sargent
1972
CBS long running show'M*A*S*H" '72-'83 debuted All the cast characters were members of 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital stationed behind the lines during the Korean War in the 50's The show starred Alan Alda'Hawkeye',Mike Ferrell'BJ'{He replaced Wayne Rogers'Trapper John' who left the show in'75},Jamie Farr'Klinger',Loretta Swit'Margaret",Gary Burghoff'Radar'.He played the same role in the movie version,he left the show in'79.These are the cast members still with us
1978
Pres. Jimmy Carter,Anwar Sadat,Mencham Begin sign the Camp David Accords,the framework for peace in the Middle East between Egypt&Israel
 

moviequeen1 said:
Sept 17th
1787
The U.S. Constitution is signed by delegates in Philadelphia
1964
ABC comedy'Bewitched''64-'72 debuted, about a young witch'Samantha' who tries to abandon her witch powers to please her mortal husband,Darrin Stephens.They married in the 1st episode but nothing was the same after that.The show starred Elizabeth Montgomery'Samantha',Dick York who played 'Darrin' left the show in'69 for health problems.He was replaced by Dick Sargent
1972
CBS long running show'M*A*S*H" '72-'83 debuted All the cast characters were members of 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital stationed behind the lines during the Korean War in the 50's The show starred Alan Alda'Hawkeye',Mike Ferrell'BJ'{He replaced Wayne Rogers'Trapper John' who left the show in'75},Jamie Farr'Klinger',Loretta Swit'Margaret",Gary Burghoff'Radar'.He played the same role in the movie version,he left the show in'79.These are the cast members still with us
1978
Pres. Jimmy Carter,Anwar Sadat,Mencham Begin sign the Camp David Accords,the framework for peace in the Middle East between Egypt&Israel
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MASH, was a big favorite among those of us who lived in the Camp Kue Army BOQ on Okinawa in the early 1970's. It was a big building and home to those of who were in the Navy, almost all of the Army Medical Personnel who worked in the nearby hospital, several Army Special Forces, and a whole lot of other "cats and dogs" from around the island. Every week, a bunch of us would all gather in one of the nurses rooms, sit on the floor, put on real combat helmets, drink whatever was available, eat peanuts and watch MASH. It was one of my favorite times of the week and it seems downright silly now, but it was fun and I will admit that I am easily entertained. After watching MASH our rowdy group walked over to the club where we ate dinner and sampled more "refreshments" and did something that was supposed to be dancing. Army Nurses are fun to hang out with!
 
17th September

1877 William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographic pioneer, died. He made the earliest known surviving photographic negative in the late summer of 1835, with a photograph of the oriel window at his home at Lacock Abbey.

2013 A wedding service at Holy Cross Church in Sherston, Wiltshire, was delayed for an hour when an owl that was bearing the wedding rings fell asleep in the church roof.

2014 A businessman gambled £900,000, the biggest amount of money ever staked on a political event, on Scotland staying in the United Kingdom. He called it an ‘investment’ rather than a gamble, with a profit of £193,333.33 in the event of a 'No' vote, and it was!
 
Sept 18th
1837
Charles Lewis Tiffany& John B.Young co founded a stationary&fancy goods store in NYC,in 1853 was renamed'Tiffany&Co"
1851
The NYTimes published its 1st issue,cost 2 cents.It now costs $3 M-Sat,Sun is $6
1971
Momofukee Ando markets the 1st "Cup Noodle".Its packaged in a waterproof polystyrene container
1990
Atlanta,Georgia is chosen to host the Centennial Summer Olympic Games in 1996
 
18th September

1709 Dr Samuel Johnson, English writer and compiler of the first English dictionary was born.

1911 Britain's first twin-engined aeroplane, the Short S.39, was test flown.

1939 William Joyce, whose upper-class accent earned him the nickname Lord Haw-Haw, made his first Nazi propaganda broadcast from Germany to the UK.

1944 World War II: The British submarine HMS Tradewind torpedoed Junyō Maru, a Japanese cargo ship used to transport prisoners. It was the world's greatest sea disaster at the time with 5,620 dead. 723 survivors were rescued, only to be put to work in conditions similar to those of the Burma Railway where death was commonplace.
 
Sept 19th
1778
TheContinential Congress passes the 1st U.S. budget
1893
New Zealand becomes the 1st country to grant all women the right to vote
1986
U.S Federal health officials announce AZT will be available for AIDS patients
1994
NBC long running medical drama'ER' '94-'09 debuts.The 4 lead actors were not well known as they are today:,Anthony Edwards'Dr Mark Green'{left show in'02},George Clooney"Dr Doug Ross{left show in'99},Juliana Marguiles'Nurse Carol Hathaway"{left show in '00} Noah Wylie'Dr.John Carter"{left show in '06} The show was based on creator/co exec producer,Michael Crichton's experience as medical student at Massachusetts General Hospital
 
1839 Birth of George Cadbury, the chocolate manufacturer. A Quaker, he believed in taking care of the welfare of his workforce, and he created a model village for his employees at Bournville, Birmingham.

1945 The Nazi propaganda broadcaster William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw) was sentenced to hang for treason.

1946 The Council of Europe was founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich. It promotes co-operation between all countries of Europe in the areas of legal standards, human rights, democratic development, the rule of law and cultural co-operation.
 
Sept 20th
1859
George Simpson patents the electric range
1973
Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in ABC special'Battle of the Sexes' tennis match in the Houston Astrodome.She won in straight sets 6-4,6-3,6-3.A record 90 million people tuned in
1999
NBC's police/detective series'Law&Order:SVU{Special Victims Unit} debuts starring Mariska Hargitay'Det Olivia Benson',Chris Meloni' Det Eliot Stabler-he left in 2011.This is a spinoff of the original L&O which ended in '12.SVU is now the longest running police drama on TV
 
20th September

1258 - The consecration of Salisbury Cathedral.The cathedral has the tallest church spire in the United Kingdom at 123m/404 ft. It also has the largest cloister and the largest cathedral close in Britain, the world's oldest working clock (from AD 1386) and the best surviving of the four original copies of Magna Carta.

1860 - The Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) visited the United States. It was the first tour of North America by an heir to the British throne. The four-month tour throughout Canada and the United States considerably boosted Edward's self-esteem, and had many diplomatic benefits for Great Britain.

2014 - Dr. Michael Ramscar and a team of scientists suggested that the brains of older people only appear to slow down because they have so much information to compute, much like a full-up hard drive. “The brains of older people do not get weak. On the contrary, they simply know more.”
 
Sept 21st
1677
John&Nicholass van der Hayden patent the fire extinguisher
1957
CBS classic legal drama'Perry Mason" '57-'66 debuts,character was created by author/lawyer,Erle Stanley Garner.The show's cast members were Raymond Burr as'Mason, Barbara Hale as his devoted secretary'Della Street',William Hopper as'Paul Drake' his personal investigator, William Tallman as 'DA Hamilton Burger'
1970
Monday Night Football debuts on ABC,with play by play announcers,Keith Jackson,Don Meredith,along with Howard Cosell.The game was between NYJets vs Cleveland Browns.The Browns won 31-21
 
1776 Part of New York City was burned shortly after being occupied by British forces.

1915 Stonehenge was sold at auction to Mr C H Chubb for £6,600 as a present for his wife. Mr Chubb presented it to the nation three years later as his wife didn't think it suited her.

1955 The Admiralty announced that Britain had formally claimed uninhabited Rockall, a rocky islet 300 miles west of Scotland, to stop the Soviets spying on missile tests.
 
Sept 22nd
1920
A Chicago grand jury convened to investigate charges that 8 White Sox baseball players tried to fix the 1919 World Series
1964
NBC's spy spoof'The Man From U.N.C.L.E {United Network Command for Law&Order}'64-'68 debuts starring Robert Vaughn as 'Napoleon Solo',David McCallum as'Iylaid Kuryakin' as 2 super agents trying to defeat an international crime syndicate,THRUSH. Leo J.Carroll played their boss,'Mr Waverly'
1999
NBC's political drama'The West Wing'99-'06 debuts starring Martin Sheen as "Pres.Jed Bartlett".Other cast members,Bradley Whitford,John Spencer,Allison Janney,Stockard Channing,Rob Loewe
2015
Pope Francis arrives in U.S. to start his 6 day tour around the country
 
1598 The English playwright Ben Jonson, a contemporary of William Shakespeare, killed an actor in a duel and was put on trial for manslaughter. Jonson pleaded guilty but was released by benefit of clergy, a legal ploy through which he gained leniency by reciting a brief bible verse, forfeiting his 'goods and chattels' and being branded on his left thumb.

1692 The last people were hanged for witchcraft in Britain's North American colonies.

1967 The liner Queen Mary began her 1000th and last Atlantic crossing. A New York docks strike meant that passengers had to carry their own luggage aboard.
 
Sept 23rd
1884
Herman Holleuth patented his mechanical tabulating machine which started data processing
1969
Northern Star&Illnois Univ newspaper started rumors that Paul McCartney had died
1986
Congress selects the rose as United States national flower
 
23rd September

1641 The Merchant Royal, a 17th century English merchant ship was lost at sea off Land's End. On board were at least 100,000 pounds of gold (nearly one billion pounds in today's money), 400 bars of Mexican silver and nearly 500,000 pieces of eight and other coins, making it one of the most valuable wrecks of all times. The wreck remains undiscovered.

1779 During the American Revolution, John Paul Jones on board the USS Bonhomme Richard beat British forces at the Battle of Flamborough Head (Yorkshire). It became one of the most celebrated naval actions of the American War of Independence.

1952 The star of the silent movies, Charlie Chaplin, returned to his native England after 21 years in the US.
 
Sept 24th
1789
US Congress establishes Post Office Dept
1948
Mildred Gillars"Axis Sally" an American Broadcaster who was hired by Third Reich in Nazi Germany to spread propaganda during WWII pleads not guilty to 8 charges of treason.She serves 12 yrs,is released in 1961
1958
'The Donna Reed Show '58-'66 debuts on ABC,starring Donna Reed,Carl Betz plays her husband"Alex' a pediatrician,Shelley Fabares,"Mary',Paul Petersen' Jeff' play their kids.They are the two remaining cast members still with us
1968
"60 MInutes' CBS long running news magazine debuts,still on the air Sun nights at 7pm
2015
Pope Francis is the 1st Pope to address U.S. Congress.He names Abraham Lincoln,Martin Luther King,Jr,Thomas Merton,Dorothy Day as his American heroes
 
1564 The birth, in Gillingham, of William Adams, the English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Englishman ever to reach the country. Adams was the inspiration for the character of John Blackthorne in James Clavell's best selling novel Shogun.

1842 The death of Branwell Bronte, English painter, writer and poet, brother of the famous literary Bronte sisters. It is likely that he died from tuberculosis aggravated by his heavy drinking and opium addiction.

1971 Over 100 Russian diplomats were expelled from Britain for spying, following revelations made by a Soviet defector.

2009 The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure was discovered buried in a field in Staffordshire. Terry Herbert, who found it on farmland using a metal detector, said that it was a metal detectorist's dream. Experts said that the collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces, which may date to the 7th Century, was unparalleled in size and worth "a seven-figure sum".
 
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1564 The birth, in Gillingham, of William Adams, the English navigator who travelled to Japan and is believed to be the first Englishman ever to reach the country. Adams was the inspiration for the character of John Blackthorne in James Clavell's best selling novel Shogun.
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1564--What a great year for England! Shakespeare and Marlowe were also born that year!
 
25th September

1687 Sir Isaac Newton published his theories on gravitation.

1956 A Transatlantic telephone service was inaugurated. It consisted of 4,500 miles of cable, laid in waters up to 2.5 miles deep between Gallanach Bay, near Oban and Clarenville, Newfoundland and initially carried 36 telephone channels.

1997 The British Thrust SCC car, driven by RAF pilot Andy Green, set a new world record land speed record of 714.44 mph at Black Rock Desert in Nevada. On October 15th in the same year, Thrust SSC became the first land vehicle to exceed the speed of sound when it achieved 763 mph (Mach 1.020), also at Black Rock Desert, Nevada. Thrust SSC remains the world’s first and only supersonic car.
 
Sept 26
1914
Federal Trade Commission formed to regulate interstate commerce
1964
CBS comedy'Gilligan's Island' '64-'67 debuts.The story about a small chartered boat'The Minnow' caught in a storm stranded on a small deserted island in the S.Pacific
The cast Bob Denver"Gilligan',Alan Hale,Jr'Skipper,Jim Backus&Natalie Schafer as rich couple 'Thurston&Lovey Howell' Tina Louis as movie star'Ginger',Dawn Wells as naive country girl'MaryAnn',Russell Johnson as high school teacher'Prof..Dawn &Tina are the 2 cast members still with us
1988
Rockefeller Center in NYC declared a national landmark
2010
British period piece drama'Downton Abbey''10-'16 debuts in England,5 months later in U.S. on PBS. It becomes a worldwide hit.Oscar winning screen writer,Julian Fellowes{Gosford Park} wrote every episode for the show.The movie version came out last yr
 
26th September

1580 The Devonshire born seaman Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, in the Golden Hind, becoming the first British navigator to circumnavigate the earth. Drake plundered a few Spanish ships en-route to keep morale high!

1953 Sugar rationing in Britain came to an end.

1955 Frozen Birdseye fish fingers first went on sale in Britain.

2011 The wreck of SS Gairsoppa, a UK cargo ship sunk by a German U-boat in 1941, was found in the Atlantic, around 300 miles off the coast of Ireland by US exploration firm Odyssey Marine. The wreck contained 200 tonnes of silver worth about £150m making it the largest haul of precious metal ever discovered at sea.
 
Sept 27th
1779
John Adams was elected to negotiate with the British over the American Revoluntary War peace terms
1892
book matches patented by Diamond Match Company
1954
The debut of "The Tonight Show' on NBC,which was live.Steve Allen was the 1st host,he left the show in '57.The announcer was Gene Rayburn,music director was Skitch Henderson
1962
marine biologist,Rachel Carson's book 'Silent Spring' was published,book was about the impact of pesticide use on the environment in U.S.
 
27th September

1066 William the Conqueror and his army set sail from the mouth of the Somme River in Picardy, northern France, beginning the Norman Conquest of England.

1888 The first use of the name, 'Jack the Ripper' in an anonymous letter to the Central News Agency. He went on to kill five women, and it's believed he may have been responsible for the deaths of four more.

1938 The 83,000 ton liner 'Queen Elizabeth' was launched at John Brown's Yard on Clydebank in Scotland by the Queen Mother. With her sister ship Queen Mary, she provided luxury liner service between Southampton and New York via Cherbourg in France.

1968 The musical Hair, (which took advantage of the end of British stage censorship by including a scene cast in the nude), had its first London performance. It played 1,998 performances until its closure was forced by the roof collapsing in July 1973.
 


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