Sunday, July 26, 2009

Boston, San Francisco, Mickey Mantle, Siamese twins, and more!

Replied to all the comments which Mandy left me to my past entries in time to go out when Nathan calls - YAY!

Here is a list of all events which occurred on your birthday, September 17th.

1630 - Boston founded.
1776 - Presidio of San Francisco founded as a Spanish fort.
1787 - US Constitution is adopted and formally signed.
1789 - William Herschel discovers Mimas satellite of Saturn.
1819 - First whaling ship arrives in Hawaii.
1862 - Battle of Antietam, Maryland; Confederate forces retreat.
1908 - Thomas Selfridge becomes the first fatality of powered flight.
1911 - 1st transcontinental airplane flight NY-Pasadena in 82 hours and 4 minutes.
1920 - National Football League formed in Canton, Ohio.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh in San Francisco.
1953 - First successful separation of Siamese twins.
1956 - Yanks clinch pennant #22 on Mantle's 50th homer of the year.
1963 - The Fugitive premieres.
1964 - Mickey Mantle gets hits #1999, 2000, and 2001.
1964 - Bewitched premieres.
1967 - Mission Impossible premieres.
1968 - Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon.
1972 - BART begins passenger service.
1977 - Dave Kingman hits his first Yankee homer, Reggie hits two more.
1978 - Red Sox finally beat Yanks in September 1978, 7-3.
1978 - Begin Sadat and Carter sign the Camp David accord.
1985 - Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station.

Meh, Wikipedia has more stuff for that date...

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