TODAY’S HISTORY

1787: Delegations from 12 states voted to approve the proposed Constitution at Philadelphia’s Constitutional Convention. 1862: More than 23,000 people died or were wounded in the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, resulting in the bloodiest single day in U.S. military history. 1978: Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin reached a historic accord at Camp David. 2001: The New

York Stock Exchange reopened, having been closed since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS:

Rube Foster (1879-1930), baseball player/ manager; William Carlos Williams (1883-1963), physician/ poet; Hank Williams Sr. (1923-1953), singer-songwriter; George Blanda (1927-2010), football player; Anne Bancroft (1931-2005), actress; Ken Kesey (1935-2001), author; Phil Jackson (1945-), basketball player/coach; Baz Luhrmann (1962-), filmmaker; Kyle Chandler (1965-), actor; Jimmie Johnson (1975-), race car driver; Flo Rida (1979-), rapper; Alex Ovechkin (1985-), hockey player; Patrick Mahomes (1995-), football player.

TODAY’S FACT: NASA unveiled its first space shuttle, Enterprise, at a ceremony in Palmdale, California, on this day in 1976.

TODAY’S SPORTS: In 2004, Barry Bonds became just the third baseball player in history (after Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth) to hit 700 career home runs.

TODAY’S QUOTE: “I’d take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.” — Ken Kesey, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”