Sept 17
642 Arab forces under Amr ibn al-'As conquer Alexandria
1683 Dutch scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek is the first to report the existence of bacteria
1787 US Constitution is signed by delegates at the Philadelphia Convention
1859 Joshua Abraham Norton, an English-born resident of San Francisco, proclaims himself His Imperial Majesty Emperor Norton I, Emperor of the United States of America
1862 Battle of Antietam [Battle of Sharpsburg]: Bloodiest day in the American Civil War with 22,000 dead, wounded, or missing in the first major battle on Union soil
1916 World War I flying ace, the Red Baron of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France
1916 The Diary of a Dead Officer Mud and blood were features of the First World War trenches, and soldier Arthur Graeme West’s vivid descriptions of it all were captured in his diaries.
1940 Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain
1941 Stan Musial makes his major league debut for the St. Louis Cardinals, going 2-for-4
1964 The Beatles are paid a record $150,000 by baseball team owner Charles Finley for a concert at Municipal Stadium in Kansas City, Missouri, on a scheduled day off; the group adds the song "Kansas City"/"Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey" to their standard setlist, much to the delight of the crowd
1972 TV comedy series "M*A*S*H", adapted from the movie, starring Alan Alda, Loretta Swit, Wayne Rogers, and McLean Stevenson, debuts on CBS in the US and runs for 11 years, garnering 14 Emmy Awards and 1 Peabody
1976 NASA publicly unveils the Space Shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California, named after the starship Enterprise from the "Star Trek" TV series, with members of the cast attending
1978 Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, and Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David Accords, frameworks for peace in the Middle East and between Egypt and Israel
2025 Disney-ABC indefinitely suspends production of late night television talk show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" after complaints about his political jokes, and threat of broadcast license revocation by FCC chairman Brendan Carr [1]
For a full list of Historical Events on September 17
www.onthisday.com/events/september/17
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