17 September 1549: Pope Paul III suspended the Council of Trent after Charles V forbade the Spanish and German prelates to go to Bologna.
17 September 1787: The Constitution was completed and signed by a majority of the delegates attending the constitutional convention in Philadelphia.
17 September 1862: The bloodiest day in U.S. military history occurred at the Battle of Antietam when more than 23,000 were killed or wounded.
17 September 1939: During World War II the Soviet army invaded Poland from the east, and the Polish government fled to Romania.
17 September 1991: North Korea and South Korea were admitted to the United Nations.
17 September 1994: Heather Whitestone of Alabama became the first deaf Miss America.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
- Mark Twain
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
- Arnold Toynbee
