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unusual facts about September 17



1677

September 17Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)


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1923 in organized crime

September 17 - George Meegan, a Chicago bootlegger allied with the Southside O'Donnell's, and Southside O'Donnell member George Bucher are killed by Frank McErlane.

1988 Alabama Crimson Tide football team

Alabama's road game against Texas A&M, originally scheduled for September 17, was postponed to December 1 when Coach Curry declined to make the trip, worried about oncoming Hurricane Gilbert.

1988 in fine arts of the Soviet Union

September 17 — In Voronezh on Prospekt of Revolution was unveiled a monument to Mitrofan Pyatnitsky (1864—1927), Russian Soviet musician, actor and collector of Russian folk songs, the founder and a first artistic director of the Pyatnitsky Choir.

ADA Amendments Act of 2008

Passed on September 17, 2008, and signed into law by President George W. Bush on September 25, 2008, the ADAAA was a response to a number of decisions by the Supreme Court that had interpreted the original text of the ADA.

Allan Gilliland

Dreaming of the Masters III, a three-movement jazz suite for trumpet and orchestra written for Jens Lindemann and commissioned by the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra with funding from the Alberta Foundation for the Arts received its world premiere on September 17, 2010.

Andy Douglas

After his TNA release, Dougles along with Naturals partner Chase Stevens, were supposed to wrestle a dark match on the September 17, Raw.

Augustus G. Weissert

Weissert mustered out September 17, 1865 with the regiment and returned to Milwaukee, Wisconsin where he continued to study law under Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice William P. Lyon.

Cambridge Gulf

On September 17, 1819 Philip Parker King on the survey cutter HMS Mermaid, who was mapping the entire north Australian coastline, had landed at Lacrosse Island, from where he noticed a "deep opening" to the south.

Dan Giordano

Daniel James Giordano (born September 17, 1989) is an American football defensive end for the Arizona Cardinals of the National Football League (NFL).

De Bort

Pierre Edmond Teisserenc de Bort (born September 17, 1814 at Châteauroux; died July 29, 1892 in Paris), French writer and politician

Dred

Dred Scott (ca. 1795 – September 17, 1858), an American slave who sued unsuccessfully for his freedom in 1856

Edgar Wayburn

Edgar Wayburn (September 17, 1906 – March 5, 2010) was an environmentalist who was elected president of the Sierra Club five times in the 1960s.

Eusebius A. Stephanou

On September 17, 1950 Stephanou was ordained a Deacon at St. Constantine & Helen Greek Orthodox Church in Detroit.

Frank Aloysius Tierney

Frank Aloysius Tierney (April 13, 1879 - September 17, 1923) was a tenor singer, the secretary to Governor Martin Henry Glynn, and later the Deputy Commissioner for Workmen's Compensation in Albany, New York.

Frank Ingram

Francis Hamilton Ingram (September 17, 1905 in Craven, Saskatchewan – April 1, 1985 in Edmond, Oklahoma) was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played three seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) for the Chicago Black Hawks.

Giacomo Rimini

Falstaff in Verdi's Falstaff with Lorenzo Molajoli and La Scala, originally recorded in 1932, Naxos label, current edition released on September 17, 2002, ASIN: B00006B1K9,

Gottfried Bermann

Gottfried Bermann, later Gottfried Bermann Fischer (July 31, 1897, Gleiwitz, Silesia – September 17, 1995, Camaiore), was a German publisher.

Hurricane Jeanne

By September 17, heavy rains totaling about 13 inches (330 mm) in the northern mountains of Haiti caused severe flooding and mudslides in the Artibonite region of the country, causing particular damage in the coastal city of Gonaïves, where it affected about 80,000 of the city's 100,000 residents.

Jocelyne Villeton

Jocelyne Villeton (born September 17, 1954 in Vals-les-Bains, Ardèche) is a retired long-distance runner from France, who won the bronze medal in the marathon at the 1987 World Championships in Rome, Italy.

José Luis Benítez

On September 17, 2000 Benítez lost to three-time world champion, Antonio Margarito in El Gran Mercado, Phoenix, Arizona.

Juan Cailles

In the Battle of Mabitac, in Laguna Province, on September 17, 1900, Cailles’ troops outmaneuvered and routed a strong American contingent led by Colonel Cheetham.

Kuno Lorenz

Kuno Lorenz (born September 17, 1932 in Vachdorf, Thüringen) is a German philosopher.

Lamborghini Urraco

A green Urraco P250S featured on the English TV show Wheeler Dealers, first broadcast in the UK on September 17, 2013.

Massillon Tigers

On September 17, 1920 at Ralph Hay's Hupmobile dealership in Canton, the charter members of the future NFL formally established the new league.

Miss Earth México 2011

Miss Earth México 2011, the 10th annual national beauty pageant of Miss Earth México, was held on September 17, 2011 in Quintana Roo, Municipality of Othon P. Blanco.

Nadina Abarth-Zerjav

Nadina Abarth-Žerjav (née Žerjav) (March 5, 1912, Görz (Gorizia) – September 17, 2000, Ljubljana) was the daughter of the Slovene politician and lawyer minister Gregor Žerjav and his wife, Milena née Lavrenčič.

Paul Cummings

While fishing together on September 17, 2001, their canoe capsized under high winds at Strawberry Reservoir, Utah.

Paul Haas

He led the club until September 17, 1903, when he was succeeded by Arthur Witty.

Perfectly Dirty

The song "Violent Lips" was used in a commercial for the EP which appeared on MTV Japan starting September 17, 2013.

Porsche PFM 3200

In a letter dated September 17, 2007, Porsche informed the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) that it was surrendering the type certificate for the PFM 3200 engine and that it would no longer support the engine.

Radwan coat of arms

(First) marriage with Johanne Amalie Herold, born November 10, 1717 in Reinsdorf, died September 17, 1770 in Bibra, married July 19, 1740)

Ronald Pimentel

Ronald Alexander Pimentel (born September 17, 1985 in Sonsonate) is a professional football player, who currently plays for Once Municipal in the Salvadoran Premier League .

Ronald Reagan Freedom Award

On September 17, 2008, the award was presented to former Soviet dissident Natan Sharansky by former first lady Nancy Reagan.

Sam Houston Clinton

(September 17, 1923 – October 5, 2004) was a Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Judge, who as a lawyer represented both atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair and Jack Ruby, the man who shot and killed presidential assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald.

She's a Queen: A Collection of Hits

She's a Queen: A Collection of Hits is the first greatest hits album (fifth overall) by American rapper Queen Latifah, released on September 17, 2002 (see 2002 in music) in the United States.

Something Is Not Right with Me

The video was directed by Sophie Muller and was uploaded on the band's YouTube page on September 17, 2008.

Steve Kerrigan

Stephen "Steve" Kerrigan (born September 17, 1971) is an American politician and candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts in the 2014 election.

The Lunchbox

However, the selection committee of the Film Federation of India deliberated on September 17, 2013 and decided to send the Gujarati film The Good Road instead.

The Shondes

In April 2013 they announced the departure of founding drummer, Temim Fruchter, and the entrance of Allison Miller for the band's fourth record, The Garden, to be released September 17, 2013 on Exotic Fever Records, and again produced by Tony Maimone at Brooklyn, NY's Studio G.

Think About the Way

Released on initially on EMI Music Sweden and Extravaganza Records on September 17, 2012, it featured Jamaican dancehall singer Sean Paul and was co-written by Roberto Zanetti, Alex Arash Labaf and Sean Henriques (Sean Paul).

Turkish Air Force Academy

On September 17, 1954, the Air Force Academy was moved to İzmir due to the inadequacies in Eskişehir.

Twahir Muhiddin

On September 17, 2010, Harambee Stars coach Twahir Muhiddin quit as coach of the Kenya national football team following Kenya's 1-0 loss to Guinea-Bissau in the 2012 AFCON qualifiers.

Vladimir Kolupaev

Vladimir Kolupaev ( born on September 17, 1964, Mesherskoye, Chekhovsky District, Russia) is a historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences, a graduate of the Moscow State University of Culture and Arts and Catholic priest.

World Doctors Orchestra

Further concerts in 2013 will be on September 17 in the Beethovenhalle, Bonn, Germany, on invitation of the Beethovenfest Bonn and on September 18 in the Philharmonie Berlin, Germany, with countertenor Jochen Kowalski and jazz singer Donna Brown.

Xóchitl Escobedo

Xóchitl Escobedo (born September 17, 1968) is a retired female tennis player from Mexico, who represented her native country at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea.

Yamaya Tanin

Transferred to the converted passenger liner Saikyo-maru, Yamaya served as chief navigator during the First Sino-Japanese War and was present during the Battle of the Yalu on September 17, 1894, along with the belligerent Navy General Staff Admiral Kabayama Sukenori.

Yehoshua Zettler

On September 17, 1948, Bernadotte came to Jerusalem in a car with General Åge Lundström on his way to meet Israeli official Dov Yosef, who was then the military governor of the Israeli-controlled portion of Jerusalem's New City.

Zeke Mowatt

During a September 17, 1990, locker room interview, then-Boston Herald sportswriter Lisa Olson was allegedly approached and sexually harassed by five semi-naked members of the New England Patriots football team, which included Mowatt, Michael Timpson and Robert Perryman.