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RE: September 17th

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The Stockert Radio Telescope was inaugurated on 17 September 1956
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockert_Radio_Telescope

Fourpeaked Mountain erupted on September 17, 2006
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourpeaked_Mountain

The Okeechobee hurricane made landfall near West Palm Beach, Florida on September 17, 1928
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1928_Okeechobee_hurricane

Operation Market Garden (1725 September 1944) was an unsuccessful Allied military operation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Market_Garden

British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous was sunk by the German U-boat U 29 on September 17, 1939
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Courageous_(50)

Das Boot (German: Das Boot meaning "The Boat") is a 1981 German epic war film
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Das_Boot

Bewitched is an American situation comedy originally broadcast for eight seasons on ABC from 1964 to 1972,
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t45033699/bewitched/

Battlestar Galactica is a 1978 American science fiction franchise created by Glen A. Larson.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t50824437/battlestar-galactica/

On September 17, 1976, the Space Shuttle Enterprise was unveiled
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t41244595/space-shuttle-enterprise/

Soyuz T-14 (Union T-14) was launched on the 17th September 1985
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_T-14

SumbandilaSat was launched in 2009
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t7860118/sumbandila-satellite/

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People

Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky (17 September 1857 - 19 September 1935) was a Soviet rocket scientist
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t45033651/konstantin-eduardovich-tsiolkovsky-1857-1935/

Thomas Patten Stafford (born September 17, 1930) is a former NASA astronaut
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Patten_Stafford

Edgar Dean Mitchell (September 17, 1930 - February 4, 2016) was an American naval officer and aviator
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell

Pamela Anne Melroy (born 17 September 1961) is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamela_Melroy

Dr. Mary-Helen Johnston (born September 17, 1943) served as the backup payload specialist to Lodewijk van den Berg on the Spacelab 3 mission flown in April and May 1985
https://books.google.co.uk/books

Samuel Thornton Durrance (Ph.D.) is an American scientist who flew aboard two NASA Space Shuttle missions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_T._Durrance

Thomas Etholen Selfridge (February 8, 1882 - September 17, 1908) was a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Selfridge#Death

On September 17, 1912, using the Clark Telescope, Vesto Slipher made a major discovery.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t46118114/vesto-melvin-slipher-1875-1969/

Seth Carlo Chandler, Jr. (September 16, 1846 - December 31, 1913) was an American astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seth_Carlo_Chandler

Robert Jay GaBany (September 17, 1954) is an American amateur astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Jay_GaBany

Petr Pravec (born September 17, 1967) is a Czech astronomer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petr_Pravec

John Goodricke FRS (17 September 1764 - 20 April 1786) was an amateur astronomer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Goodricke

Bernhard Riemann (September 17, 1826 - July 20, 1866) was an influential German mathematician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_Riemann

Celio Calcagnini (17 September 1479 - 24 April 1541) was an Italian scientist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celio_Calcagnini

John Creasey MBE (17 September 1908 - 9 June 1973) was an English crime and science fiction writer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Creasey

Victor Anestin (September 17, 1875 - November 5, 1918) was a Romanian journalist
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Anestin

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NGC Discovered

NGC 112 is a spiral galaxy discovered by Lewis A. Swift on the 17th September 1885.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58569330/ngc-112/

NGC 262 was discovered by American astronomer Lewis A. Swift on the 17th September 1885.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t62737673/ngc-262/

NGC 671 is a spiral galaxy discovered by Lewis A. Swift on the 17th September 1885.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58569320/ngc-671/

NGC 759 is an elliptical galaxy discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on the 17th September 1865.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58569303/ngc-759/

NGC 832 is possibly a double star discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on the 17th September 1865.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58569290/ngc-832/

NGC 1050 is a lenticular galaxy discovered by Heinrich Louis d'Arrest on the 17th September 1865.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58569276/ngc-1050/

NGC 6803 is a planetary nebula discovered by Edward Charles Pickering on the 17th September 1882.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58569268/ngc-6803/

NGC 6886 is a planetary nebula discovered byRalph Copeland on the 17th September 1884.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58569255/ngc-6886/

NGC 7025 is a spiral galaxy discovered by Albert Marth on the 17th September 1863.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58569216/ngc-7025/

NGC 7028 is a missing object discovered by Albert Marth on the 17th September 1863.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58569207/ngc-7028/

NGC 7033 is an elliptical galaxy discovered by Albert Marth on the 17th September 1863.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58569190/ngc-7033/

NGC 7034 is an elliptical galaxy discovered by Albert Marth on the 17th September 1863.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58569185/ngc-7034/

NGC 7056 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by Albert Marth on the 17th September 1863.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t58569178/ngc-7056/

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Neptune moon Thalassa was discovered sometime before mid-September 1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thalassa_(moon)

Neptune moon Naiad was discovered sometime before mid-September 1989
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naiad_(moon)

Mimas was discovered by the astronomer William Herschel on 17 September 1789.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimas_(moon)#Discovery

On September 17, 2002, Rho Indi was found to have a planet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rho_Indi

On September 17, 2002, the discovery of a giant planet around Tau1 Gruis was announced
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tau1_Gruis

Comet 14P/Wolf was discovered bt Max Wolf (Heidelberg, Germany) on September 17, 1884.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14P/Wolf

Sir William Lower's observations of Halley's Comet in 1607
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1891Obs....14..347L

Title: The Bolide of September 17, 1966
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t54979199/bolide-of-september-17-1966/

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Meteorites

The Tomatlan (H6) meteorite fell in Jalisco, Mexico, on the 17th September 1879.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t45033895/tomatlan-meteorite/

The Mabwe-Khoywa (L5) meteorite fell in Kayah State, Burma, on the 17th September 1937.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t45033907/mabwe-khoywa-meteorite/

The Soroti (Iron) meteorite fell in Eastern, Uganda, on the 17th September 1945.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t45033943/soroti-meteorite/

The Atoka (L6) meteorite fell in Oklahoma, USA, on the 17th September 1945.
http://astronomy.activeboard.com/t45033951/atoka-meteorite/