September 17

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September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). There are 105 days remaining.

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1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays and observances
5 External links

Events

1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
1394 - King Charles VI of France orders all Jews expelled from France.
1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War
1577 - Peace of Bergerac signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
1787 - The United States Constitution is adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
1809 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
1859 - Joshua A. Norton declares himself Emperor Norton I of the United States.
1862 - American Civil War: George McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the Battle of Antietam.
1894 - Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
1908 - Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge crashes a Wright Brothers airplane and becomes the first airplane fatality.
1914 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1920 - National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
1924 - The Border Defence Corps was established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
1939 - The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defence War of 1939.
1943 - Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis.
1944 - Airborne troops from Canada, Great Britain, and the United States parachute into Arnhem, as a part of Operation Market Garden.
1947 - James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.
1948 - Lehi (also know as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arabs and Jews.
1949 - The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
1951 - Robert A. Lovett was sworn in as the 4th Secretary of Defense of United States.
1961 - The Minnesota Vikings play their first NFL game, defeating the Chicago Bears 37-13, with Fran Tarkenton throwing 4 touchdowns and running for 1 touchdown.
1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show. Morrison sang the lyrics, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" from the song, Light My Fire when asked not to.
1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA
1978 - The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.
1983 - Vanessa Williams becomes first African American Miss America.
1984 - Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.
1984 - Baseball: Reggie Jackson becomes the 13th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California.
1988 - Opening ceremony of the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul, South Korea.
1991 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
2001 - The Late Show with David Letterman is the first TV talk show to return to the airwaves six days after terrorists attack the United States in New York City and Washington D.C.
2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average opens for the first time after the September 11 attacks. The stocks plummet throughout the trading session and posts its biggest point drop in its history closing down 684.81 points to 8920.70.
2004 - Tamil is declared first classical language in India.
2004 - Barry Bonds becomes only the third Major League Baseball player to hit 700 or more home runs.
2005 - The B.C. Lions make CFL history by winning 11 straight games, become the first team ever to do so in the CFL.

Births

879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo Japanese shogun (d. 1219)
1271 - King Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1580 - Francisco de Quevedo, Spanish writer (d. 1645)
1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma (d. 1694)
1639 - Hans Herr, Swiss-born Mennonite bishop (d. 1725)
1657 - Sophia Alekseyevna, regent of Russian (d. 1704)
1677 - Stephen Hales, English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761)
1687 - Durastante Natalucci, Italian historian (d. 1772)
1730 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, Prussian army officer (d. 1794)
1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (d. 1794)
1819 - Thomas Hendricks, Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
1820 - Émile Augier, French dramatist (d. 1889)
1826 - Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Russian rocket scientist and inventor (d. 1935)
1869 - Christian Lous Lange, Norwegian pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1938)
1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
1883 - William Carlos Williams, American physician and writer (d. 1963)
1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (d. 1920)
1897 - Earl Webb, baseball player (d. 1965)
1900 - John Willard Marriott, American hotelier (d. 1985)
1907 - Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
1918 - Chaim Herzog, President of Israel (d. 1997)
1922 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
1923 - Hank Williams, American musician (d. 1953)
1927 - George Blanda, American football player
1928 - Roddy McDowall, English actor (d. 1998)
1929 - Sir Stirling Moss, English race car driver
1930 - Edgar Mitchell, astronaut
1931 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
1933 - Dorothy Loudon, American actress (d. 2003)
1934 - Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (d. 1969)
1935 - Ken Kesey, American author (d. 2001)
1937 - Orlando Cepeda, Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1939 - David Souter, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice
1941 - Bob Matsui, U.S. Congressman from California (d. 2005)
1942 - Des Lynam, English television presenter
1944 - Reinhold Messner, Austrian mountain climber
1947 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
1947 - Jeff MacNelly, American political cartoonist
1948 - John Ritter, American actor (d. 2003)
1950 - Narendra Modi, Indian politician
1951 - Cassandra Peterson, American actress
1956 - Rita Rudner, American comedienne
1957 - Omar Q. Beckins, American medical researcher (d. 1989)
1960 - Damon Hill, English race car driver
1962 - Baz Luhrmann, Australian-born film director and producer
1965 - Bryan Singer, American director
1965 - Gore Verbinski, American director
1969 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
1973 - Anastacia, American singer
1974 - Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
1975 - Jimmie Johnson, American race car driver
1975 - Constantine Maroulis, American singer
1983 - Jennifer Peña, American singer

Deaths

1179 - Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess, mystic writer, and composer (b. 1098)
1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249)
1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, English soldier
1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, first Spanish Governor of Florida (b. 1519)
1575 - Heinrich Bullinger, Swiss religious reformer (b. 1504)
1621 - Robert Bellarmine, Italian saint (b. 1542)
1630 - Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
1665 - King Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
1679 - John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
1727 - Glückel of Hameln, German businesswoman and diarist (b. 1647)
1762 - Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist and composer (b. 1687)
1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
1808 - Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, French botanist (b. 1748)
1863 - Alfred de Vigny, French author (b. 1797)
1873 - Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer and settler in Australia (b. 1781)
1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
1933 - Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
1936 - Ettie Rout, New Zealand STI awareness campaigner (b. 1877)
1938 - Bruno Jasieński, Polish poet (b. 1901)
1966 - Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (b. 1930)
1972 - Akim Tamiroff, Georgian actor (b. 1899)
1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, American bandleader (b. 1909)
1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, President of Nicaragua (b. 1925)
1984 - Richard Basehart, American actor (b. 1914)
1991 - Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
1993 - Christian Nyby, American film and television director (b. 1913)
1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice President of the United States (b. 1918)
1997 - Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
2003 - Erich Hallhuber, German actor (b. 1951)
2003 - Sheb Wooley, American actor and singer (b. 1921)
2005 - Alfred Reed, American composer (b. 1921)

Holidays and observances

The fourth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greek mythology, when the initiates sacrificed a pig.
RC Saints - Feasts of Saint Lambert (martyr), Hildegard of Bingen

Also see September 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Angola - National Heroes' Day
Netherlands - Operation Market Garden is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day.
United States - Constitution Day (observed on the previous Friday if it falls in a weekend), Citizenship Day, Von Steuben Day