About September 17
September 17, 2023 is the 260th day of the year 2023 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 105 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Sunday.
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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 146 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”.
- 1577 –The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
- 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.
- 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”.
- 1894 –The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
- 1914 –Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- 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.
- 1939 –World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
- 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
- 1948 –The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
- 1974 –Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
- 1976 –The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
- 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.
- 1991 –The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
- 2011 –Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park, New York City.
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