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On This Day In History for September 17, 2025
This is the 260th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 105 days remaining in 2025.
* It was on this date in 1543, that The first Finnish-language book, the Abckiria by Mikael Agricola, was published in Stockholm.
* Antonie van Leeuwenhoek wrote a letter to the Royal Society describing “animalcules”, later known as protozoa on this date in 1683.
* Also on September 17, 1908, The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashed, killing Selfridge, who became the first airplane fatality.
* It was 64 years ago today that the world’s first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opened in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
* The Space Shuttle Enterprise was unveiled by NASA on this date in 1976.
Happy birthday goes out on this date to:
* Italian astronomer, Celio Calcagnini, born on this date in 1479.
* German geologist and paleontologist, Herman Adolfovich Trautscohold was born 208 years ago today.
* Bernhard Riemann, the German-Italian mathematician and academic was born 199 years ago today.
* Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick Motor Company, David Dunbar Buick, born on this date in 1854.
* Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian scientist and engineer was born on that same date in 1857.
* Russian chemist, Vera Yevstafievna Popova, born on this date in 1867.
* Eivind Astrup, Norwegian explorer was born on that same date in 1871.
* Gerald Guralnik, the American physicist and academic was born 89 years ago today.
Listener Birthdays
* 18 – Jeff Schultz (Gorbash)
* 20 – Joel Harper (Rincewind) / Milwaukee WI
* 20 – Joel Rickenbach [deceased] (host of the You’ve Got Geek Podcast)
* 21 – Dean Jensen (Beaker1)
* 22 – Bilbo Baggins
* 22 – Frodo Baggins
And that’s the way it was, on this day in history for September 17, 2025
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