On this day in history ...

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

On this day in history, 17th September...

1558 – Death of Walter Devereux, 1st Viscount Hereford, at the Devereux seat at Chartley in Staffordshire. He was buried in Stowe church. 
1563 – Death of Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, courtier and soldier, during an outbreak of the plague. He was buried at Bottesford parish church in Leicestershire. 
1575 – Death of Heinrich (Henry) Bullinger, the Swiss reformer and theologian, in Zurich. 
1577 - The Edict of Poitiers ratified the Treaty of Bergerac, which had been signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenot princes.

A few more great historical events that happened today in history, September 17th!

1630	The town of Boston is founded by John Winthrop as an extension of the colony at Salem. It is named after the town of the same name in Lincolnshire, England.
1787	The U.S. Constitution was completed and signed by a majority of delegates attending the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
1796	President George Washington delivers his “Farewell Address” to Congress before concluding his second term in office. President George Washington
1862	The Battle of Antietam in Maryland, the bloodiest day in U.S. history, commences. Fighting in the corn field, Bloody Lane and Burnside’s Bridge rages all day as the Union and Confederate armies suffer a combined 26,293 casualties.
1868	The Battle of Beecher’s Island begins, in which Major George “Sandy” Forsyth and 50 volunteers hold off 500 Sioux and Cheyenne in eastern Colorado.
1902	U.S. troops are sent to Panama to keep train lines open over the isthmus as Panamanian nationals struggle for independence from Colombia.
1903	Turks destroy the town of Kastoria in Bulgaria, killing 10,000 civilians.
1907	Warren Burger, the 15th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, was born in St. Paul, Minn.
1916	Germany’s “Red Baron,” Manfred von Richthofen, wins his first aerial combat.
1917	The German Army recaptures the Russian Port of Riga from Russian forces.
1920	The American Professional Football Association – a precursor of the National Football League – was formed in Canton, Ohio.
1939	With the German army already attacking western Poland, the Soviet Union launches an invasion of eastern Poland.
1942	British Prime Minister Winston Churchill meets with Soviet Premier Josef Stalin in Moscow as the German Army rams into Stalingrad.
1944	British airborne troops parachute into Holland to capture the Arnhem bridge as part ofOperation Market-Garden. The plan called for the airborne troops to be relieved by British troops, but they were left stranded and eventually surrendered to the Germans.
1947	James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first U.S. secretary of defense.
1957	The Thai army seizes power in Bangkok.
1959	The X-15 rocket plane makes its first flight.
1962	The first federal suit to end public school segregation is filed by the U.S. Justice Department.
1972	The comedy series “M.A.S.H.” premiered on CBS.
1976	NASA unveiled the space shuttle Enterprise.
1978	Egypt and Israel sign the Camp David Accords.
1980	Former Nicaraguan president Anastasio Somoza was assassinated in Paraguay. Anastasio Somoza
1986	The Senate confirmed the nomination of William H. Rehnquist as the 16th chief justice of the United States.