September 17

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

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Table of contents

1 Events
2 Births
3 Deaths
4 Holidays

Events

1394 - King Charles VI of France orders all Jews expelled from France
1462 - Battle of Swiecin, called also Battle of Zarnowiec, during Thirteen Years' War
1630 - City of Boston, Massachusetts founded
1776 - Presidio of San Francisco founded
1787 - United States Constitution completed
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 - Battle of Antietam
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
1920 - National Football League organized in Canton, Ohio
1939 - Soviet Union attacks Poland
1944 - British troops parachute into Arnhem, as a part of Operation Market Garden
1947 - James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the 1st 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
1951 - Robert A. Lovett was sworn in as the 4th Secretary of Defense of United States
1976 - Space shuttle unveiled
1978 - Camp David peace agreement between Israel and Egypt
1983 - Vanessa Williams becomes first African-American Miss America
1984 - Brian Mulroney sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada
1988 - Opening ceremony of the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul, South Korea
1991 - North Korea and South Korea joined 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.

Births

879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929)
1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland (d. 1305)
1550 - Pope Paul V (d. 1621)
1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist (d. 1794)
1819 - Thomas Hendricks, former Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, rocket scientist, inventor (d. 1935)
1874 - Ben Turpin, actor, comedian (d. 1940)
1879 - Rube Foster, Negro League baseball star (some sources say 1878) (d. 1930)
1883 - William Carlos Williams, physician and writer (d. 1963)
1890 - Gabriel Heatter, journalist (d. 1972)
1900 - John Willard Marriott, hotelier (d. 1985)
1907 - Warren Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
1922 - Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician (d. 1979)
1923 - Hank Williams, musician (d. 1953)
1927 - George Blanda, National Football League and American Football League star
1928 - Roddy McDowall, actor (d. 1998)
1929 - Sir Stirling Moss, Formula One racer
1930 - Edgar Mitchell, astronaut
1931 - Anne Bancroft, actress
1934 - Maureen Connolly, tennis star (d. 1969)
1935 - Ken Kesey, author (d. 2001)
1937 - Orlando Cepeda, Baseball Hall of Famer
1947 - Tessa Jowell, British politician
1947 - Jeff MacNelly, Pulitzer Prize winning political cartoonist
1948 - John Ritter, actor (d. 2003)
1950 - Narendra Modi, chief minister of Gujarat
1951 - Cassandra Peterson (Elvira), actress
1956 - Rita Rudner, comedienne
1962 - Baz Luhrmann, film director and producer
1969 - Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
1973 - Anastacia, singer
1974 - Rasheed Wallace, NBA basketball player
1983 - Jennifer Peña, Mexican-American (Tejano) singer

Deaths

1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (b. 1721)
1863 - Alfred de Vigny, author
1873 - Alexander Berry, Scotish adventurer, founder of Berry, Australia.
1908 - Lt. Thomas Selfridge, first to die in an airplane crash. Orville Wright was the pilot.
1972 - Akim Tamiroff, actor
1973 - Hugo Winterhalter, band leader
1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle, former president of Nicaragua
1984 - Richard Basehart, actor
1993 - Christian Nyby, film and television director
1996 - Spiro Agnew, former Vice President of the United States
1997 - Red Skelton, actor, comedian

Holidays

Feast of Hildegard of Bingen
The fourth day of the Eleusinian mysteries in ancient Greek mythology, when the initiates sacrificed a pig.

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