On this day... SEP17

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