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What happened in history on this day: September 17?
On September 17 in ...
- 530 - Boniface II is elected Pope.
- 879 - Birth of Charles III [The Simple], king of France (893-923).
- 1179 - Death of Hildegard von Bingen near Bingen; born in Bermersheim (Germany) near the Rhine; founded her own Benedictine convents near Bingen, and near Rüdesheim, she was a natural scientist, healer, artist, poet and musician.
- 1271 - Birth of Wenceslas II king of Bohemia and Poland (1278-1305).
- 1394 - Jews are expelled from France by order of King Charles VI.
- 1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
- 1730 - Birth of Baron Frederick von Steuben Germany, made Continental Army winners.
- 1745 - Charles Edward Stuart AKA Bonnie Prince Charlie returns to Scotland.
- 1774 - Birth of Joseph Caspar Mezzofanti Cardinal/linguist (understood 70 languages).
- 1776 - Presidio of San Francisco forms as a Spanish fort.
- 1778 - At Fort Pitt, the USA signs a treaty with the Lenape tribe, allowing American troops to pass through the lands inhabited by the Lenape to attack British troops at a Detroit fort.
- 1787 - The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1789 - William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn.
- 1809 - Sweden is forced to make peace with Russia, ceding all of Finland, the Åland islands, and a north-eastern strip of Sweden. In total, Sweden loses one-third of its territory.
- 1819 - Birth of Thomas Andrews Hendricks; 21st US Vice President (Democrat).
- 1844 - Birth of Tivadar Puská in Hungary; inventor of telephone-newspaper.
- 1850 - Birth of Abílio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro; Portuguese poet (The Simple Ones).
- 1857 - Birth of Konstantin Tsiolkovsky; pioneer in rocket and space research.
- 1862 - Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam) - bloodiest day of the war between the USA and CSA, 22,000 killed and wounded on both sides.
- 1863 - Pope Pius IX encyclical On persecution in New Grenada.
- 1869 - Birth of Christian Lange in Norway; pacifist/internationalist (Nobel Prize 1921).
- 1884 - Birth of Charles Tomlinson Griffes in Elmira, New York, USA; composer (White Peacock).
- 1886 - Death of Asher Brown Durand in South Orange, New Jersey, USA; engraver of first US postage stamps (1847 5-cent and 10-cent), landscape painter, president of National Academy of Design.
- 1904 - Birth of Frederick Ashton; choreographer (Cinderella).
- 1907 - Birth of Warren E Burger in Minnesota, USA; Supreme Court chief justice (1969-86).
- 1908 - Thomas Selfridge becomes first fatality of powered flight.
- 1911 - First US transcontinental airplane flight, New York to Pasadena in 82 hours 4 min.
- 1917 - Birth of Lawrence Jacob in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA; artist (Sanitarium).
- 1917 - Birth of Peter Bennett in London, England; actor (Leonides - Adventures of Sir Lancelot).
- 1920 - The American Pro Football Association is organized in Canton, Ohio, USA.
- 1921 - Birth of Virgilio Barco Vargas; president of Colombia (1986-90).
- 1922 - Birth of Ursula Howells in London, England; actress (Girly, Murder is Announced).
- 1922 - Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 kilowatts - most powerful station).
- 1923 - Birth of Hank Williams; country singer ("Cold, Cold Heart", "Hey Good Lookin'").
- 1927 - Birth of George Blanda in Pennsylvania, USA; NFL hall of famer (Chicago Bears, Houston Oilers, Oakland Raiders).
- 1928 - Birth of Roddy McDowall; actor (Planet of the Apes, Lord Love a Duck).
- 1928 - Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee, Florida, USA drowning 1,800-2500.
- 1928 - Pitcher Ray Boggs hits three batters in one inning.
- 1930 - Birth of David Huddleston in Vinton, Virginia, USA; actor (How the West Was Won).
- 1930 - Birth of Edgar Dean Mitchell in Hereford, Texas, USA; Captain US Navy/astronaut (Apollo 14).
- 1930 - Birth of Thomas P Stafford in Weatherford, Oklahoma, USA; US Air Force/astronaut (Gemini 6, Gemini 9, Apollo 10, Apollo 18).
- 1931 - Birth of Anne Bancroft in the Bronx, New York, USA; American actress (The Graduate) (dies 2005).
- 1933 - Birth of Charles Grassley; American politician (Senator-Republican-Iowa).
- 1933 - Birth of Dorothy Loudon in Boston, Massachusetts, USA; actress (Garbo Talks, Garry Moore Show).
- 1933 - Birth of Patricia Crowley in Olyphant, Pennsylvania, USA; actress (Please Don't Eat the Daisies).
- 1934 - First 33 1/3 rpm recording released (Beethoven's 5th Symphony).
- 1934 - Birth of Maureen "Little Mo" Connolly; tennis player, grand slam (1953).
- 1934 - Birth of Orlando Cepeda; New York Giants player (National League Most Valuable Player 1967).
- 1935 - Birth of Ken Kesey; author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest).
- 1937 - The head of Abraham Lincoln on Mount Rushmore is dedicated in Black Hills, South Dakota.
- 1937 - First NFL game in Washington, DC; Washington Redskins beat New York Giants 13-3.
- 1938 - British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain meets with the Cabinet. He states that Adolf Hitler appears to be "a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word".
- 1938 - Birth of Paul Benedict in Silver City, New Mexico, USA; actor (Harry - The Jeffersons).
- 1939 - Birth of David Souter in Weir, New Hampshire, USA; Supreme Court Justice (1990-).
- 1939 - (0400 hours) Russian armies cross the entire eastern frontier of Poland, claiming the Polish State no longer exists, and "to protect our own interests and to protect the White Russian and Ukranian minorities".
- 1939 - Polish President Ignaz Moscicki and a government party of 57 cross into Rumania.
- 1939 - The Germany Army captures the citadel of Brest-Litovsk, Poland, taking 600 prisoners.
- 1939 - German forces capture the Polish town of Kutno.
- 1939 - (about 2000 hours) German submarine U-29 torpedoes and sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous in the Bristol Channel, with the loss of 518 men.
- 1940 - Adolf Hitler gives orders to postpone indefinitely invasion plans of Great Britain. The invasion fleet and troops are ordered dispersed from the area.
- 1941 - Birth of William Grut in Sweden; penthathlete (Olympic-gold-1948).
- 1942 - Birth of Doris Brown; American 800m runner (Olympic-5th-1968).
- 1943 - Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station.
- 1944 - British Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery launches Operation Market Garden, with 14 divisions. Nearly 2000 American CG-4A and 700 British Horga and Hamilcar gliders are launched from southern England, carrying the British 2nd Army and the US 101st Airborne Division. They land along 60 miles of road in Holland, leading into Germany. The objective is to capture bridges at Grave, Nijmegen, and Arnhem over the Rhine river.
- 1945 - In Norway, a court sentences Vidkun Quisling to death for collaborating with Germans.
- 1947 - James Forrestal sworn in as first US secretary of defense.
- 1948 - Birth of John Ritter in Burbank, California, USA; actor (Jack - Three's Company, Hooperman).
- 1948 - In Jerusalem, Palestine, Count Folke Bernadotte, nephew of the Swedish King, is murdered by Jewish extremists while mediating peace between Palestinians and Jews.
- 1949 - Steamer Noronic burns at pier killing 128 (Toronto, Canada).
- 1950 - San Francisco 49ers (formerly AAFC) play first NFL game, lose 21-17.
- 1952 - In the USA, "I am an American Day" and "Constitution Day" renamed "Citizenship Day".
- 1953 - First successful separation of Siamese twins.
- 1954 - Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano knocks out Ezzard Charles in eight rounds.
- 1955 - Birth of Rita Rudner; comedienne (Funny People).
- 1956 - Television is first broadcast in Australia.
- 1956 - New York Yankees clinch pennant #22 on Mickey Mantle's 50th homer of the year.
- 1957 - Malasya joins the United Nations.
- 1957 - Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for first powered flight.
- 1958 - Birth of Daniel Nunez in Cuba; weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1980).
- 1958 - NBC airs the last Father Knows Best TV show.
- 1959 - Birth of Hank Ilesic in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada; Canadian Football League punter, place kicker (Edmonton Eskimos, Toronto Argonauts).
- 1959 - Transit 1A, first navigational satellite launched; failed to orbit.
- 1959 - Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea.
- 1960 - Cuba nationalizes American-owned banks.
- 1961 - Adnan Menderes, Prime Minister of Turkey (1950-60), dies at age 62.
- 1961 - The ABC TV network airs the last Walt Disney Presents show.
- 1961 - Minnesota Vikings' first NFL game (beat Chicago Bears 37-13).
- 1962 - Birth of Dustin Nguyen; actor (Harry - 21 Jump Street).
- 1962 - CBS airs the last Father Knows Best TV show.
- 1962 - US space officials announce selection of nine new astronauts.
- 1963 - NBC airs the last The Dick Powell Theatre TV show.
- 1963 - ABC premieres The Fugitive drama TV show, starring Richard Janssen.
- 1964 - ABC premieres the Bewitched 30-minute comedy TV show.
- 1964 - Beatles are paid a record US$150,000 for a concert (Kansas).
- 1964 - Mickey Mantle gets hits number 1999, 2000 and 2001.
- 1965 - The CBS TV network airs the first The Smothers Brothers 30-minute comedy TV show in the USA.
- 1965 - The CBS TV network premieres The Wild, Wild West 60-minute western TV show in the USA.
- 1965 - The CBS TV network airs the first Hogan's Heroes 30-minute comedy TV show in the USA.
- 1966 - CBS premieres the Mission: Impossible 60-minute adventure TV show.
- 1966 - CBS resumes airing The Jackie Gleason Show 60-minute comedy variety series.
- 1967 - Mission Impossible TV show premieres on CBS-TV.
- 1967 - Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 (New Hampshire).
- 1967 - New Orleans Saints' first NFL game, they lose to Los Angeles Rams 27-13.
- 1968 - Birth of Suzy Cote in Santa Barbara, California, USA; actress (Samantha - Guiding Light).
- 1968 - Gaylord Perry (San Francisco Giants) no-hits Saint Louis Cardinals, 1-0.
- 1968 - Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon.
- 1969 - The ABC TV network airs the first Room 222 30-minute comedy-drama TV show in the USA.
- 1970 - The NBC TV network airs the first The Flip Wilson Show 60-minute comedy TV show in the USA.
- 1972 - CBS TV debuts the sitcom M*A*S*H TV show.
- 1973 - Death of Hugo Winterhalter of cancer at age 64; arranger (Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, RaymondScott, Claude Thornhill, Dinah Shore, Billy Eckstein, Perry Como, Eddie Fisher, Ames Brothers), musical director at MGM Records (1948-50), RCA Victor (1950-), orchestra leader ("Blue Tango", "Vanessa", "The Little Shoemaker", "Canadian Sunset").
- 1974 - Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Australia) in 23rd America's Cup.
- 1974 - Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
- 1975 - Rollout of first space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101).
- 1976 - NASA publicly unveils space shuttle Enterprise in Palmdale, California.
- 1977 - Dave Kingman hits his first New York Yankees' homer, Reggie Jackson hits two more.
- 1978 - Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and US President Jimmy Carter sign the Camp David accord.
- 1978 - ABC TV debuts TV sci-fi adventure Battlestar Galactica, starring Lorne Greene.
- 1978 - Death of Willy Messerschmitt in Munich, Germany (born 1898); aircraft designer at the Bayerische Flugzeugwerke in Augsburg, which ultimately became the Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm corporation.
- 1980 - Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is assassinated in Asunción, Paraguay (born 1925).
- 1980 - After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
- 1982 - New Jersey Devils' first exhibition game, beating the Washington Capitals 3-1 in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
- 1983 - Vanessa Lynn Williams is crowned Miss America, in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
- 1984 - On the seventeenth anniversary of his first major league home-run, Reggie Jackson hits his 500th career home run.
- 1984 - Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th Prime Minister succeeding John Turner.
- 1984 - New York Mets' Dwight Goodin becomes second to strikeout 32 over two consecutive games.
- 1985 - Birth of Alexander Ovechkin; Russian hockey player.
- 1985 - Soyuz T-14 carries three cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station.
- 1985 - Death of Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (born 1925).
- 1986 - Marina Stepanova of USSR sets the 400m hurdle woman's record (52.94).
- 1986 - US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice.
- 1987 - Birth of Ray Friesen; American cartoonist and founder of Don't Eat Any Bugs Productions.
- 1987 - At a small rally in Harlem, televangelist Marion Robertson announces his candidacy for the 1988 Republican presidential nomination.
- 1987 - CBS TV airs the last episode of TV crime drama T.J. Hooker.
- 1988 - Jeff Reardon becomes first to record 40 or more saves in both American League and National League.
- 1988 - (to October 2) The Games of the XXIV Olympiad are held in Seoul, Korea.
- 1989 - Hurricane Hugo begins four day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62.
- 1989 - Jay Stewart, announcer on TV's Let's Make a Deal, commits suicide.
- 1989 - Death of Hugh Quincy Alexander, American politician (born 1911).
- 1990 - The Toronto Blue Jays set a major league single-season attendance record of 49,902.
- 1990 - Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep New York Post publishing.
- 1990 - Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties.
- 1991 - 4,355 turn out to see the Montreal Expos play the New York Mets at Shea Stadium.
- 1991 - North and South Korea join the United Nations.
- 1991 - The ABC TV network debuts the Disney-produced TV show Home Improvement.
- 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 onto the Internet.
- 1992 - Two Kurdish opposition leaders are assassinated by the Iranian Kazem Darabi and the Lebanese Abbas Rhayel.
- 1996 - Death of Spiro Agnew, American Vice President (born 1918).
- 1998 - Death of Chet Hoff at the age of 107 in Daytona Beach, Florida. Hoff played for the New York Highlanders in 1911-13 and St. Louis Browns in 1915.
- 1999 - Death of Frankie Vaughan AKA Frank Abelson at age 71 of a heart ailment; pop singer ("Kewpie Doll", "Kisses Sweeter than Wine", "Seventeen", "The Green Door", "Come Softly to Me").
- 2001 - The New York Stock Exchange reopens following the terrorist attacks in New York.
- 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes for the day down 684.81 points (7.1 percent), the second largest one-day point drop.
- 2004 - Hurricane Jeanne leaves mudslides in Haiti, killing 3006.
- 2004 - The 2004 Summer Paralympics commences in Athens, Greece.
- 2004 - Mexico and Japan finish two-year-long negotiations and sign a Free Trade Agreement in Mexico City.
- 2004 - Barry Bonds hits his 700th career home run, third player in major league baseball to reach the milestone.
- 2004 - Tamil is declared the first classical language in India.
- 2005 - Helen Clark, leader of the Labour Party, is re-elected for a third term in the New Zealand general election.
- 2006 - Death of Patricia Kennedy Lawford, American socialite, sister of John F. Kennedy (born 1924).
- 2006 - Death of Dorothy C. Stratton, Director of the United States Coast Guard Women's Reserve (born 1899).
- 2006 - The Alliance for Sweden claims victory in the Swedish general election.
- 2007 - The European Court of First Instance rules that Microsoft must obey a 2004 order to share networking protocols and offer a version of Windows without a built-in copy of audio/video Windows Media Player, and pay a US$613 million fine.
- 2007 - The bank run on Scotland's Northern Rock ends when chancellor of the exchequer announces all Northern Rock deposits will be 100 percent guaranteed by the British government.
- 2008 - Somchai Wongsawat, brother-in-law of ousted Thai leader Thaksin Shinawatra, wins a majority parliamentary vote to become the country's new prime minister.
- 2008 - The International Astronomical Union classifies Haumea as the fifth dwarf planet in the Solar System.
- 2008 - Russia's Moscow stock markets are closed after stocks fell to the lowest level in almost three years. The country's Finance Minister plans to support the three largest banks with 60 billion rubles (US$2.3 billion) in loans.
- 2011 - Occupy Wall Street protests begin in the United States. This develops into the Occupy movement which spreads to 82 countries by October.
- 2017 - Death of Bobby Heenan, American professional wrestling manager (born 1944).
- 2020 - The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 passes 30 million worldwide.
- 2020 - France, Germany, and the United Kingdom issue a joint note verbale to the United Nations rejecting China's claims to the South China Sea, and supporting the ruling in Philippines v. China that said the historic rights per the nine-dash line ran counter to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. However the statement says that on "territorial sovereignty" they "take no position".
- 2021 - Death of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, 7th President of Algeria (born 1937).
- 2022 - The name of the capital city of Kazakhstan is changed from Nur-Sultan to Astana, the name it previously had from 1998 until 2019. The city is the Guinness World Record holder for having most name-changes.
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