TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1394 - In France, Charles VI published an ordinance that expelled all Jews from France.

1853 - Australia’s first paddlesteamer, the Lady Augusta, reaches Swan Hill on its maiden voyage from Goolwa.

1892 - The Coolgardie, WA, gold rush begins.

1908 - The first air fatality occurs when a plane being piloted by Orville Wright crashes, killing his passenger.

1939 - The Soviet Union invaded Poland. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.

1944 - Operation “Market Garden” was launched by Allied paratroopers during World War II. The landing point was behind German lines in the Netherlands.

1983 - Vanessa Williams, as Miss New York, became the first black woman to be crowned Miss America.

1988 - Lt. Gen. Prosper Avril declared himself president of Haiti after President Henri Hamphy was ousted.

1991 - The United Nations General Assembly opened its 46th session. The new members were Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North and South Korea, Micronesia and the Marshall Islands.

1995 - Hong Kong held its last legislative election before being taken over by China in 1997.

1997 - Northern Ireland’s main Protestant party joined in peace talks. It was the first time that all of the major players had come together.

2001 - Today is Australian Citizenship Day, inaugurated in the twenty-first century. Birthdays

Andrew Foster 1879

J. (John) Marriott 1900 Esther Ralston 1902 Dolores Costello 1904 Chaim Herzog (Israel) 1918 Hank Williams, Sr. (Hiram King “Hank” Williams) 1923 - Country music performer

Bill Black 1926 Brother Jack McDuff 1926 George Blanda 1927 Roddy McDowall 1928

Sil Austin 1929

Pat Crowley 1929

Anne Bancroft 1931 Dorothy Loudon 1933 Ken Kesey 1935 Orlando Cepeda 1937 Paul Benedict 1938