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[acroyear]

Facts about September 17th... (yeah, i'm listing more than the meme requested...) :

1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1787 - The United States Constitution is adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (gotcha beat, scaleslea !  :) )
1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show. Morrison sang the lyrics, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" from the song, Light My Fire when asked not to.
1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA
1978 - The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.
1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.

Births:
879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1928 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
1948 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
1951 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
1956 - Rita Rudner, American comedian

Deaths:
1665 - King Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605) [his grandfather, Phillip II was married to Bloody Mary I, our "Princess Mary" at MDRF; see comment below]
1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)

Comments

[fiona64.livejournal.com]

1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.

I still miss working there ...

[anjabeth.livejournal.com]

Cool!

But (minor annoying note) Mary I didn't actually have any children. I don't know why wikipedia would get that wrong, but, no, Philip IV wasn't Mary I's grandson, although she was married to his grandfather Philip II, as his second wife. Philip IV's grandmother was II's fourth wife, Anna. (And they say Henry had too many!) :)

And Cassandra Peterson is waaay awesome! I used to love watching her in L.A. as Mistress of the Dark!

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

it didn't get it wrong; i missinterpreted it not reading the fuller history of Phillip II.

my entry's been corrected.