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Historical Events on September 17

456
Remistus, Roman general (magister militum), is besieged by a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace in Classis, outside the city.
1111
Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".
1176
The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empire to recover Anatolia from the Seljuk Turks.
1382
Louis the Great's daughter, Mary, is crowned "king" of Hungary.
1462
A Polish army under Piotr Dunin decisively defeats the Teutonic Order at the Battle of Świecino.
1577
The Treaty of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
1620
The Ottoman Empire defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Battle of Cecora.
1630
The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1631
Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.
1658
The Battle of Vilanova is fought between Portugal and Spain during the Portuguese Restoration War.
1683
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.
1775
American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.
1776
The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
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.
1793
France's Army of the Eastern Pyrenees defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.
1794
France completes its conquest of the Austrian Netherlands at the Battle of Sprimont.
1809
Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War; the territory that will become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
1849
American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
1859
Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."
1861
Argentine Civil Wars: The State of Buenos Aires defeats the Argentine Confederation at the Battle of Pavón.
1862
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.
1862
American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
1894
Battle of the 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 Jr. at Mabitac.
1901
Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.
1901
Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.
1908
The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.
1914
Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
1914
World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.
1916
World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1924
The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
1925
Frida Kahlo suffers near-fatal injuries in a bus accident in Mexico, causing her to abandon her medical studies and take up art
1928
The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.
1930
The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.
1932
A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.
1939
World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
1939
World War II: German submarine U-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
1940
World War II: Following Nazi Germany's defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely.
1941
World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued.
1941
World War II: Soviet forces enter Tehran marking the end of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.
1944
World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
1944
World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro independence Estonian units.
1944
World War II: German forces are attacked by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino.
1948
The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.
1948
The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
1949
The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
1954
The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.
1961
The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1961
The Minnesota Vikings play and win their first regular season National Football League game.
1965
The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.
1974
Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
1976
The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
1978
The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
1980
After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
1980
Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
1983
Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
1991
Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, 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.
1992
An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
2001
The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
2006
Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.
2006
An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.
2011
Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
2016
Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan, New York. 31 people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.

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