TODAY IN HISTORY
On Sept. 17, 1862, more than 3,600 men were killed in the Civil War Battle of Antietam in Maryland.
In 1920, the American Professional Football Association — a precursor of the
National Football League — was formed in Canton, Ohio.
In 1939, the Soviet Union invaded Poland during World War II, more than two weeks after Nazi Germany had launched its assault.
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 1980, former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza was assassinated in Paraguay.
a demonstration calling itself Occupy Wall Street began in New York, prompting similar protests around the U.S. and the world.