17 September
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The 17t o September is the 260t day o the year (261t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 105 days bidin.
Events
- 1577 - The Treaty o Bergerac is signed atween Henry III o Fraunce an the Huguenots.
- 1630 - Boston, Massachusetts is foondit.
- 1787 - The Unitit States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
- 1789 - William Herschel discovers Mimas, a Muin o Saturn.
- 1928 - The Okeechobee Hurricane in Florida kills o'er 2,500 fowk.
- 1939 - Warld War II: The Soviet Union invades Eastren Poland.
- 1957 - Malaysie jyns the Unitit Naitions.
- 1974 - Bangladesh, Grenada an Guinea-Bissau jyn the Unitit Naitions.
- 1978 - The Camp David Accord is signed bi Menachem Begin an Anwar Sadat, hosted bi US Preses Jimmy Carter.
- 1988 - The 1988 Simmer Olympics in Seoul, Sooth Korea, begin.
- 1991 - Estonie, Latvie, Lithuanie, North Korea, Sooth Korea, the Marshall Islands an the Federatit States o Micronesie jyn the Unitit Naitions.
- 2001 - Tradin re-stairts efter the September 11 attacks.
- 2004 - The Simmer Paralympic Gemmes in Athens begin.
- 2006 - Fredrik Reinfeldt is electit Prime meenister o Swaden.
- 2011 - The Occupy Wall Street muivement stairts in New York Ceety.
- 2019 - Twa bomb attacks in Afghanistan kill a total o 50 fowk.
- 2019 - Israel haulds its seicont Knesset election in less nor sax month, wi an inconclusive result.
Births
- 879 - Charles the Simple, King o Wast Francie (d. 929)
- 1552 - Pape Paul V (d. 1621)
- 1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathemateecian (d. 1794)
- 1755 - William Cathcart, 1st Yerl Cathcart, Scots sodger an diplomat (d. 1843)
- 1826 - Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, German mathemateecian (d. 1866)
- 1854 - David Dunbar Buick, Scots-American inventor (d. 1929)
- 1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Roushie rocket scientist (d. 1935)
- 1895 - Princess Margrethe o Denmark (d. 1992)
- 1922 - Agostinho Neto, 1st Preses o Angolae (d. 1979)
- 1923 - Hank Williams, American sangster (d. 1953)
- 1929 - Stirling Moss, Inglis racin driver
- 1931 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
- 1935 - Ken Kesey, American writer (d. 2001)
- 1944 - Reinhold Messner, Italian muntaneer
- 1950 - Narendra Modi, Prime meenister o Indie
- 1956 - Almazbek Atambayev, umwhile Preses o Kyrgyzstan
- 1958 - Janez Jansa, Slovenian politeecian
- 1960 - Damon Hill, Inglis racin driver
- 1962 - Baz Luhrmann, Australie actor an film director
- 1968 - Anastacia, American sangster
- 1968 - Tito Vilanova, Spainyie fitbawer an manager (d. 2014)
- 1977 - Simone Perrotta, Italian fitbawer
- 1985 - Tomas Berdych, Czech tennis player
- 1993 - Sophie Howard, German-Scots fitbawer
Daiths
- 1179 - Hildegard von Bingen, German abbess an componer (b. 1098)
- 1665 - Philip IV o Spain (b. 1605)
- 1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scots poet an author (b. 1721)
- 1869 - John Elder, Scots marine ingineer an shipbigger (b. 1824)
- 1948 - Folke Bernadotte, Swadish diplomat (b. 1895)
- 1994 - Karl Popper, Austrick philosopher (b. 1902)
- 1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1918)
- 2002 - James Macdonald, Scots-Australie ornithologist (b. 1908)
Halidays
- Constitution Day (Unitit States)
- Heroes' Day (Angolae)
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