Today is Tuesday, September 17, the 261st day of the 12 months 2024. There are 105 days left within the 12 months.
Today in history:
On September 17, 2011, an indication called “Occupy Wall Street” began in New York, sparking similar protests across the United States and all over the world.
Also on this date:
In 1787, the United States Constitution was accomplished and signed by nearly all of delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
In 1908, Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Army Signal Corps became the primary person to die within the crash of a powered airplane, the Wright Flyer, at Fort Myer, Virginia, just outside Washington, DC.
In 1944, during World War II, Allied paratroopers launched Operation Market Garden and landed behind German lines within the Netherlands.
In 1978, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (men-AH'-kem BAY'-gihn) signed the Camp David Accords, the framework for a peace treaty, after twelve days of meetings on the US presidential headquarters at Camp David.
In 1980, former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza was assassinated in Paraguay.
In 2001, six days after September 11, stock prices plunged sharply but didn’t completely crash through the emotional, flag-waving reopening of Wall Street.
In 2021, a Los Angeles jury convicted New York real estate heir Robert Durst of murdering his best friend 20 years ago. (Durst, who was sentenced to life in prison, died in 2022.)
Today's birthdays:
- Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is 91.
- Retired Supreme Court Justice David H. Souter (SOO'-tur) is 85.
- Mountaineer and explorer Reinhold Messner is 80.
- Basketball Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson is 79.
- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is 74.
- Actress Cassandra Peterson (“Elvira, Mistress of the Dark”) is 73.
- Director and actor Paul Feig is 62.
- Film director Baz Luhrmann is 62.
- Singer BeBe Winans is 62.
- Actor Kyle Chandler is 59.
- Rapper Doug E. Fresh is 58.
- The creator Cheryl Strayed is 56.
- Actor Matthew Settle is 55.
- Designer and tv star Nate Berkus is 53.
- NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson is 49.
- NHL striker Alexander Ovechkin (oh-VECH'-kin) is 39.
- Actress Danielle Brooks is 35.
- NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes is 29.
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