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September 17
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September 17
Events
456
–
Remistus
, Roman general (
magister militum
), is
besiege
d 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 fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks.
1382
–
Louis the Great
's daughter,
Mary
, is crowned
"king" of Hungary
.
1462
– The
Battle of Swiecino
(also known as the Battle of Zarnowiec) is fought during
Thirteen Years' War
.
1577
– The
Treaty of Bergerac
is signed between
Henry III of France
and the
Huguenots
.
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
.
1683
–
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
writes a letter to the
Royal Society
describing "
animalcules
": the first known description of
protozoa
.
1716
–
Jean Thurel
enlists in the
Touraine Regiment
at the age of 18, the first day of a military career that would span for over 90 years.
1761
– The
Battle of Kosabroma
is fought.
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
– The
Battle of Peyrestortes
is fought.
1794
– The
Battle of Sprimont
is fought.
1809
– Peace between Sweden and Russia in the
Finnish War
. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the
Treaty of Fredrikshamn
.
1813
– The
Second Battle of Kulm
is fought.
1814
–
Francis Scott Key
finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "
The Star-Spangled Banner
".
1849
– American
abolitionist
Harriet Tubman
escapes from
slavery
.
1859
–
Joshua A. Norton
declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."
1861
–
Battle of Pavón
is fought.
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., son of
confederate
general
Benjamin F. Cheatham
in the
Battle of Mabitac
.
1901
– The
Battle of Blood River Poort
is fought.
1901 – The
Battle of Elands River
is fought.
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.
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.
1924 – The
Church of Central Africa Presbyterian
is formed.
1928
– The
Okeechobee hurricane
strikes southeastern
Florida
, killing more than 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the
Galveston hurricane of 1900
and the
1906 San Francisco earthquake
.
1930
– The
Ararat rebellion
is suppressed.
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: sinks the British aircraft carrier .
1939 –
Taisto Mäki
becomes the first man to run the
10,000 metres
in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6.
1940
– World War II: Following the
German
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
.
1943
– World War II: The Russian city of
Bryansk
is liberated from Germans.
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 burns in
Toronto Harbour
with the loss of over 118 lives.
1957
–
Malaysia
joins the
United Nations
.
1961
– The world's first retractable-dome stadium, the
Civic Arena
, opens in
Pittsburgh
,
Pennsylvania
.
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
Gdansk
, 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
.
1987
–
Pope John Paul II
embraces an AIDS-infected boy while visiting
San Francisco
.
1988
– The
1988 Summer Olympics
, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad, were opened in
Seoul
,
South Korea
.
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.
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