{"id":40111,"date":"2018-09-17T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T13:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=40111"},"modified":"2018-09-16T18:26:38","modified_gmt":"2018-09-16T23:26:38","slug":"this-day-in-history-bloodiest-day-in-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=40111","title":{"rendered":"This Day In History &#8211; Bloodiest Day in US history"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>September 17<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>1787<br \/>\nThe Constitution was completed and signed by a majority of the delegates attending the constitutional convention in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n<p>1862<br \/>\nThe bloodiest day in U.S. military history occurred at the Battle of Antietam when more than 23,000 were killed or wounded.<\/p>\n<p>1908<br \/>\nLt. Thomas Selfridge, a passenger in a plane piloted by Orville Wright, became the first airplane fatality when the craft crashed.<\/p>\n<p>1920<br \/>\nThe American Professional Football Association\u2014a precursor of the NFL\u2014was formed in Canton, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>1980<br \/>\nAnastasio Somoza Debayle, former president of Nicaragua, was assassinated in Paraguay.<\/p>\n<p>1994<br \/>\nHeather Whitestone of Alabama became the first deaf Miss America.<\/p>\n<p>2004<br \/>\nBarry Bonds became the third baseball player to hit 700 career home runs, joining Hank Aaron and Babe Ruth.<\/p>\n<h4>Birthdays<\/h4>\n<p>David H. Souter<br \/>\n1939\u2014, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1990\u20142009), born in Melrose, Mass.<br \/>\nA graduate of the Harvard Law School, he served as New Hampshire&#8217;s attorney general (1976\u201378), and on the state&#8217;s superior court (1978\u201383) before being named to the New Hampshire Supreme Court (1983\u201390). After serving only a short time as a judge on the federal First Circuit Court of Appeals (1990), he was named by President George H. W. Bush in July, 1990, to the U.S. Supreme Court, replacing William Brennan. Although regarded initially as a conservative, Souter emerged by the mid-1990s as key to a moderate bloc that resisted pressures from the political right to undo Court precedents of the 1960s and 70s.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Louis Lange<br \/>\npacifist (1869)<\/p>\n<p>William Carlos Williams<br \/>\npoet and physician (1883)<\/p>\n<p>Warren Earl Burger<br \/>\nfifteenth Chief Justice of the United States (1907)<\/p>\n<p>Hank Williams<br \/>\ncountry singer (1923)<\/p>\n<p>Anne Bancroft<br \/>\nactress (1931)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September 17 1787 The Constitution was completed and signed by a majority of the delegates attending the constitutional convention in Philadelphia. 1862 The bloodiest day&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":40114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11733],"tags":[69,106,103,1495,6131],"class_list":["post-40111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dayinhistory","tag-fhsu","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-tiger-media-network","tag-tigermedianet","tag-today-in-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tigermedianet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/battle-74011_1920.jpg?fit=1920%2C1415&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40111"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40111\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40112,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40111\/revisions\/40112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}