'''September_17''' is the 260th day of the year (261st in leap years). There are 105 days remaining.
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==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.
*1939- Taisto Mäki of Finland. New world record on 10.000m. 29.52.6. First time under 30 min. In Helsinki Olympic stadium in Finland. The stadium was build for the 1940 Olympic games after the games were moved there from Tokyo Japan. The games never took place.
*1943 - Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis.
*1944 - Airborne troops from the Allies 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.
*1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
*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==
* 64 - Julia_Flavia, daughter of Roman_Emperor Titus, lover of his brother Domitian.
*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)
*1903 - Karel_Miljon, Dutch boxer (d. 1984)
*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)
*1907 - Ignaz_Brüll, Austrian pianist (b. 1846)
*1933 - Joseph_De_Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
*1936 - Ettie Rout, New Zealand activist (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
== External links ==
* BBC: On This Day
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