TODAY IN HISTORY
TODAY IS SATURDAY, SEPT. 17, the 260th day of 2022. There are 105 days left in the year. TODAY’S HIGHLIGHT IN HISTORY: On this date in 1978, after meeting at Camp David, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat signed a framework for a peace treaty. In 1787, the Constitution of the United States was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia. In 1862, more than 3,600 men were killed in the Civil War Battle of Antietam in Maryland. In 1908, Lt. Thomas E. Selfridge of the U.S. Army Signal Corps became the first person to die in the crash of a powered aircraft, the Wright Flyer, at Fort Myer, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C. In 1937, the likeness of President Abraham Lincoln’s head was dedicated at Mount Rushmore. In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland during World War II, more than two weeks after Nazi Germany had launched its assault. In 1944, during World War II, Allied paratroopers launched Operation Market Garden, landing behind German lines in the Netherlands. (After initial success, the Allies were beaten back by the Germans.)
In 1947, James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first U.S. Secretary of Defense. In 1980, former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza was assassinated in Paraguay. In 1986, the Senate confirmed the nomination of William H. Rehnquist to become the 16th chief justice of the U.S. In 2001, six days after 9/11, stock prices nosedived, but stopped short of collapse in an emotional, flag-waving reopening of Wall Street; the Dow Jones industrial average ended the day down 684.81 at 8,920.70. TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS: Singer Fee Waybill is 74. Actor Cassandra Peterson (“Elvira, Mistress of the Dark”) is 71. Comedian Rita Rudner is 69. Director-actor Paul Feig, movie director Baz Luhrmann and singer BeBe Winans are 60. Rapper Doug E. Fresh is 56. Actor Malik Yoba is 55. Rock singer Anastacia is 54. Actor Matthew Settle is 53. Rapper Vin Rock (Naughty By Nature) is 52. Actor-comedian Bobby Lee and actor Felix Solis are 51. R&B singer Marcus Sanders (Hi-Five) is 49. Actor-singer Nona Gaye is 48. Singeractor Constantine Maroulis and NASCAR driver Jimmie Johnson are 47. Country singer-songwriter Stephen Cochran, rock musician Chuck Comeau (Simple Plan) and actor Billy Miller are 43. Actor-singer Denyse Tontz is 28. NHL center Auston Matthews is 25.