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On Sept. 17, 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
In 1862 Union forces repelled Confederate troops in Maryland, in the Battle of Antietam.
In 1923 country music pioneer Hank Williams Sr. was born in Georgiana, Ala.
In 1939 the Soviet Union invaded Poland two weeks after Nazi Germany invaded.
In 1944 Allied paratroopers launched Operation Market Garden, landing behind German lines in the Netherlands.
In 1972 “M*A*S*H” premiered on CBS.
In 1991 the UN welcomed new members Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, North and South Korea, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia.
