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September 17 is the 260th day of the year (261st in
leap years ). There are 105 days remaining.
Contents
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 .
1778 - Treaty of Fort Pitt signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware ).
1787 - The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania .
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 single-day Battle of Antietam , the bloodiest day in American history.
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 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright , with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
1914 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1916 - World War I : Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron "), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte , won his first aerial combat near Cambrai , France .
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.
1928 - The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida , killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in US history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake .
1939 - The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany 's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939 .
1941 - A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War , was issued
1943 - Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis .
1944 - Allied Airborne troops parachute into Holland as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden .
1947 - James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States .
1948 - Lehi (also known 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.
1956 - Television was first broadcast in Australia .
1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show .
1970 - Fighting breaks out along the Syria -Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen .
1972 - The first episode of M*A*S*H premieres on CBS .
1976 - The first Space Shuttle , Enterprise , was unveiled by NASA . In keeping with its namesake, the cast of Star Trek came to see Enterprise 's unveiling.
1978 - The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt .
1983 - Vanessa Williams becomes the first black 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 .
1993 - Last Russian troops leave Poland .
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 - Barry Bonds becomes only the third player in Major League Baseball history to reach 700 career home runs .
2004 - Tamil is declared first classical language in India .
2006 - The WB Television Network went off-the-air after eleven and a half years. The CW Television Network launched the following day.
Births 64 - Julia Flavia , daughter of Roman Emperor Titus ; lover of Domitian .
879 - King Charles III of France (d. 929 )
1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo , Japanese shogun (d. 1219 )
1271 - 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 , Mennonite bishop (d. 1725 )
1657 - Sophia Alekseyevna , regent of Russia (d. 1704 )
1677 - Stephen Hales , English physiologist, chemist, and inventor (d. 1761 )
1687 - Durastante Natalucci , Italian historian (d. 1772 )
1688 - Maria Luisa of Savoy , first queen of Philip V of Spain (d. 1714 )
1730 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben , Prussian army officer (d. 1794 )
1739 - John Rutledge , 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1800 )
1743 - Marquis de Condorcet , French mathematician (d. 1794 )
1820 - Émile Augier , French dramatist (d. 1889 )
1826 - Bernhard Riemann , German mathematician (d. 1866 )
1854 - David Dunbar Buick , American automobile pioneer (d.1929 )
1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky , Russian rocket scientist (d. 1935 )
1860 - Billy the Kid (d. 1881 )
1869 - Christian Lous Lange , Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize recipient (d. 1938 )
1879 - Rube Foster , American baseball player, manager and executive (d. 1930 )
1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter , English soldier (d. 1955 )
1883 - William Carlos Williams , American writer (d. 1963 )
1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes , American composer (d. 1920 )
1890 - Gabriel Heatter , American radio commentator (d. 1972 )
1897 - Earl Webb , baseball player (d. 1965 )
1900 - John Willard Marriott , American hotelier (d. 1985 )
1900 - Hughie Critz , baseball player (d. 1980 )
1901 - Francis Chichester , English adventurer (d. 1972 )
1903 - Karel Miljon , Dutch boxer (d. 1984 )
1903 - Frank O'Connor , Irish-American short-story writer (d. 1966 )
1906 - Edgar Wayburn , American environmentalist
1907 - Warren Burger , 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995 )
1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska , Polish actress and comedian
1918 - Chaim Herzog , President of Israel (d. 1997 )
1922 - Agostinho Neto , Angolan politician (d. 1979 )
1923 - Hank Williams , American musician (d. 1953 )
1926 - Bill Black , American musician (d. 1965 )
1927 - George Blanda , American football player
1928 - Roddy McDowall , English actor (d. 1998 )
1929 - Sir Stirling Moss , English race car driver
1929 - Pat Crowley , American actress
1930 - Edgar Mitchell , American astronaut
1930 - Thomas Stafford , American astronaut
1931 - Anne Bancroft , American actress (d. 2005 )
1933 - Dorothy Loudon , American actress (d. 2003 )
1933 - Claude Provost , National Hockey League player (d. 1984 )
1934 - Maureen Connolly , American tennis player (d. 1969 )
1935 - Ken Kesey , American author (d. 2001 )
1937 - Orlando Cepeda , Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player
1938 - Bobby Wine , American Major League Baseball player
1939 - Shelby Flint , American singer
1939 - David Souter , U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1941 - Bob Matsui , U.S. Congressman (d. 2005 )
1942 - Des Lynam , English television presenter
1944 - Reinhold Messner , Austrian mountain climber
1945 - David Emerson , Canadian politician
1945 - Phil Jackson , NBA coach
1945 - Bruce Spence , New Zealand actor
1946 - Billy Bonds , English footballer
1947 - Tessa Jowell , British politician
1948 - Jeff MacNelly , American political cartoonist (d. 2000 )
1948 - John Ritter , American actor (d. 2003 )
1949 - Cassandra Peterson , American actress
1950 - Narendra Modi , Indian politician
1953 - Altaf Hussain , Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
1954 - Joël-François Durand , French composer
1955 - Charles Martinet , American actor
1956 - Rita Rudner , American comedian
1959 - Charles Lawson , Northern Irish actor
1960 - Damon Hill , English race car driver
1960 - John Franco , American baseball player
1961 - Ty Tabor , American guitarist and singer (King's X )
1962 - Baz Luhrmann , Australian film director
1963 - Masahiro Chono , Japanese professional wrestler
1963 - Michael Adler , American businessman
1963 - Rami Saari , Israeli poet and translator
1965 - Bryan Singer , American director
1965 - Yuji Naka , Japanese video game programmer
1966 - Doug E. Fresh , American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
1967 - Malik Yoba , American actor
1968 - Anastacia , American singer
1969 - Ken Doherty , Irish snooker player
1971 - Adriana Sklenaříková , Slovak supermodel
1973 - Demis Nikolaidis , Greek footballer
1974 - Rasheed Wallace , American basketball player
1974 - Mirah , American musician
1974 - Tormod Granheim , Norwegian adventurer
1975 - Jimmie Johnson , American race car driver
1975 - Austin St. John , American actor
1975 - Constantine Maroulis , American singer
1976 - Daniella Rush , Czech pornographic actress
1977 - Simone Perrotta , Italian football player
1978 - Shawn Horcoff , Canadian ice hockey player
1979 - Akin Ayodele , American football player
1979 - Chuck Comeau , Canadian musician (Simple Plan )
1980 - Danny Haren , baseball player
1981 - Bakari Koné , Ivory Coast footballer
1983 - Jennifer Peña , American singer
1984 - Eugenia Volodina , Russian supermodel
1985 - Alexander Ovechkin , Russian hockey player
1985 - Jon Walker , American musician (Panic! at the Disco )
1986 - Dimitrios Regas , Greek sprinter
1990 - Pixie Geldof , daughter of Bob Geldof
1991 - Jordan McCoy , American entertainer
1994 - Taylor Ware , American yodeler
Deaths 1179 - Hildegard of Bingen , German abbess and composer (b. 1098 )
1322 - Robert III of Flanders (b. 1249 )
1422 - Constantine II of Bulgaria
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 - Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605 )
1679 - John of Austria the Younger , Spanish general (b. 1629 )
1727 - Glückel of Hameln , German businesswoman (b. 1647 )
1762 - Francesco Geminiani , Italian violinist (b. 1687 )
1771 - Tobias Smollett , Scottish novelist (b. 1721 )
1803 - Franz Xaver Süssmayr , Austrian composer (b. 1766 )
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 (b. 1781 )
1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc , French architect (b. 1814 )
1894 - Deng Shichang , Chinese admiral (b. 1849 )
1907 - Ignaz Brüll , Austrian pianist (b. 1846 )
1933 - Joseph De Piro , Maltese missionary (b. 1877 )
1936 - Ettie Annie Rout , New Zealand activist (b. 1877 )
1938 - Bruno Jasieński , Polish poet (b. 1901 )
1951 - Jimmy Yancey , American pianist (b. 1898 )
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 )
1982 - Manos Loïzos , Greek composer (b. 1937 )
1984 - Richard Basehart , American actor (b. 1914 )
1987 - Harry Locke , British character actor (b. 1913 )
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 )
2000 - Nicole Reinhart , American cyclist (b. 1976 )
2000 - Paula Yates , English TV personality (b. 1960 )
2003 - Erich Hallhuber , German actor (b. 1951 )
2005 - Alfred Reed , American composer (b. 1921 )
2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford , American socialite (b. 1924 )
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