About September 17
September 17, 2024 is the 261st day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 105 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Tuesday.
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Virgo is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Sapphire is the modern birthstone for this month. Agate is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 134 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 17
- 1176 –The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
- 1630 –The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
- 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).
- 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.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
- 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, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
- 1920 –The American Professional Football Association (later renamed National Football League) is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
- 1924 –The Border Defence Corps is 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 United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
- 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
- 1944 –World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the “Market” half of Operation Market Garden.
- 1948 –The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN 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.
- 1957 –Malaysia joins the United Nations.
- 1974 –Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
- 1992 –An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
- 2011 –Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park, New York City.
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