About September 17
September 17, 2021 is the 260th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 105 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Friday.
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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 137 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On September 17
- 1176 –The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
- 1462 –The Battle of Świecino (also known as the Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years’ War.
- 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.
- 1849 –American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
- 1859 –Joshua A. Norton declares himself “Emperor Norton I” of the United States.
- 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 history.
- 1914 –Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- 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.
- 1939 –World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
- 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.
- 1957 –Malaysia joins the United Nations.
- 1974 –Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
- 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.
- 1993 –Last Russian troops leave Poland.
- 2001 –The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 Attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
- 2011 –Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park, New York City.
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