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”.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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, Pennsylvania.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1939 –Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6
- 1939 –World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.
- 1948 –The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
- 1976 –The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
- 1983 –Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
- 1991 –The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
- 1993 –Last Russian troops leave Poland.
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