Monday, September 17, 2018

Today is Monday, September 17, the 260th day of 2018. There are 105 days left in the year.

1787 — U.S. constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention

1789 — William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn

1861 — First 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

1920 — National Football League organized in Canton Ohio

1922 — Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)

1927 — Charles Lindbergh visits San Francisco