Posted by Hare: Hoosier Daddy
Venue: Big Joe’s
Hash Cash: $8
Time: 7pm, On-out 7:30pm
On September 17th, the following events took place in American history:
1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1775 – During the American Revolutionary War, the Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
1778 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).
1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry”, later to be the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
1849 – American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
1862 – During the American Civil War, George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee’s Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history.
2015 – Hoosier Daddy lays another spectacularly shitty trail.