Major Events
- 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
- 1940 Adolf Hitler indefinitely postpones Operation Sealion, the planned German invasion of Great Britain
- 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
Sep 17 in Film & TV
- 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
Sep 17 in Music
- 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”https://www.onthisday.com/”Hey, Hey, Hey, Hey” to their standard setlist, much to the delight of the crowd
Sep 17 in Sport
- 1941 Stan Musial makes his major league debut for the St. Louis Cardinals, going 2-for-4
Did You Know?
NASA publicly unveils the Space Shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California, named after the Star Trek Enterprise, with the cast attending
Fun Fact About September 17
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
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