17 Sept, 1976 First Space Shuttle the Enterprise
1976 : NASA publicly unveils its first space shuttle, the Enterprise.
17 Sept, 1928 Puerto Rico Famine Problem
1928 : After the devastation of the latest hurricane on Puerto Rico leaving over 1000 dead famine is now a major problem with over 300,000 suffering from severe hunger due to the destruction of local crops by the hurricane and because of low defenses due to malnutrition disease is spreading quickly. Over half of the Islands population are now thought to be homeless and martial law is in place to stop looting, and allow the government to requisition food and to ration.
17 Sept, 1933 U.S.A. Wages By Employment
1933 : New figures published for the New York area show the current average weekly wages for a number of employment types.
Physician $55.32 per week
Engineer $40.68 per week
Clerks $22.15 per week
Salesman $25.020 per week
Laborer $20.00 per week
Typists $15.09 per week
17 Sept, 1939 Soviet Union Invades Poland
1939 : Soviet Union invades eastern Poland while Germany has invaded Western Poland earlier in the month.
17 Sept, 1944 Holland Airborne Invasion By Allies
1944 : Thousands of allied troops parachute behind enemy lines in Holland at the beginning of the largest airborne invasion ever undertaken with over 1,000 aircraft involved and tens of thousands of paratroopers. The invasion by included the First Airborne Allied Army included British, US and Polish airborne troops.
17 Sept, 1956 Egypt Suez Crisis
1956 : Egypt has celebrated it's first day running the Suez Canal by Egyptian Technicians, meanwhile the rest of the world are deciding ways to deal with Egypt and the US is calling for a boycott of the Canal by other nations at the same time offering US aid for the additional cost of going round rather than through the canal.
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17 Sept, 1956 World Water Speed Record Broken
1956 : Norman Buckley has smashed the World Water Speed Record in his motorboat, Miss Windermere III at an average speed of over 79 mph on Lake Windermere.
17 Sept, 1961 UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold
1961 : The UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold (Swedish) has died in an air crash outside the Northern Rhodesian town of Ndola.
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17 Sept, 1966 U.S.A. Racial Attacks
1966 : FBI Agents today arrested 13 white men in Grenada, Mississippi on charges of savage attacks on young African-American school children using sticks, fists and a club earlier this week. The National Guard was also encamped in this city where racial tensions are running high on both sides.
17 Sept, 1975 United Kingdom 26% Inflation
September 17th, 1975 : Inflation was running at 26% in Great Britain (US inflation was 9.2%) and the only thing certain is that times will become harder as the number of people out of work increases and the government setting a ceiling on pay rises of an annual increase of 12 pound per year, with many increases on prices still to come life will become much harder for the British worker. British governments have allowed the spiral to go out of control so now the medicine to fix the problem is much harder to take especially when it comes from a Labour government which is funded by trade union donations, but unless inflation is fixed quickly British goods will become even more un-competitive than they are currently.
17 Sept, 1978 U.S.A. Camp David
1978 : Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign the Camp David Accords.
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17 Sept, 1982 Palestinian Refugees Massacred
September 17th, 1982 : Over 1,000 Palestinian Refugees have been massacred in refugee camps in West Beirut by Lebanese militia, many are blaming Israeli troops who are believed to have stood by and watched the massacre of men, women and children in the camps.
17 Sept, 1985 South Africa Invades Angola
1985 : South African troops have invaded the neighboring country of Angola to track down rebels fighting the Apartheid regime, they are also using rubber bullets,guns and tear gas on stone throwing student protesters as the number of protests increase across the country.
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