Today is Tuesday, September 17, the 261st day of 2024. There are 105 days left in the year.
Today in History:
On September 17, 1787, the United States Constitution was completed and signed by a majority of the delegates present at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
Also this date:
In 1862, more than 3,600 men were killed in the Civil War battle of Antietam in Maryland.
In 1908, Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the US Army Signal Corps became the first person to die in 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 in the Netherlands.
In 1978, after 12 days of meetings at the US President’s Camp David retreat, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Accords, a framework for a peace agreement.
In 1980, Nicaragua’s former president Anastasio Somoza was assassinated in Paraguay.
In 2001, six days after 9/11, stock prices fell but stopped short of collapsing in an emotional, flag-waving reopening of Wall Street.
In 2011, a demonstration called Occupy Wall Street began in New York, leading to similar protests around the United States and the world.
In 2021, a jury in Los Angeles convicted New York real estate heir Robert Durst of killing his best friend 20 years earlier. (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 is 85. Mountaineer 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-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. Author Cheryl Strayed is 56. Actor Matthew Settle is 55. Designer-TV personality Nate Berkus is 53. NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson is 49. NHL forward Alexander Ovechkin is 39. Actor Danielle Brooks is 35. NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes is 29 .