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
- 1111 –Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as “King of Galicia”.
- 1462 –The Battle of Świecino (also known as the Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years’ War.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
- 1894 –The 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.
- 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.
- 1940 –World War II: Following the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely.
- 1943 –World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Nazis.
- 1944 –World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the “Market” half of Operation Market Garden.
- 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.
- 1976 –The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
- 1978 –The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
- 1980 –Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
- 1992 –An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
- 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.
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