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- 1176 The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
- 1394 King Charles VI of France orders all Jews expelled from France.
- 1462 The Battle of Swiecino (or Battle of Zarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
- 1462 The Battle of wiecino (or Battle of arnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War.
- 1577 Peace of Bergerac signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
- 1630 City of Boston forms
- 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.
- 1776 Presidio of SF forms as a Spanish fort
- 1776 The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
- 1778 Treaty of Fort Pitt signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware).
- 1787 The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- 1787 US constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention
- 1809 Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
- 1814 Francis Scott Key finishes his The Star-Spangled Banner poem.
- 1819 First whaling ship arrives in Hawaii
- 1859 Joshua A. Norton declares himself Emperor Norton I of the United States.
- 1862 Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam)-bloodiest day of the Civil War
- 1873 19 students attend opening class at Ohio State University
- 1894 Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
- 1908 The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
- 1908 Thomas Selfridge becomes first fatality of powered flight
- 1916 World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkrfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
- 1920 National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
- 1922 Radio Moscow begins transmitting (12 KWs-most powerful station)
- 1924 The Border Defence Corps was established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
- 1928 Hurricane hits Lake Okeechobee Florida drowning 1,800-2500
- 1928 The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in US history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
- 1934 First 33 1/3 rpm recording released (Beethoven's 5th)
- 1939 HMS COURAGEOUS sunk south west of Ireland by 2 torpedoes from German U.29. 514 men lost from crew of 1,260
- 1939 Invasion of Poland by the Red Army.
- 1939 The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
- 1941 A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, was issued
- 1943 Load of "ammunition in transit" explodes at Norfolk Naval Air Station
- 1943 Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis.
- 1944 Allied Airborne troops parachute into Holland as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.
- 1947 James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.
- 1948 Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arabs and Jews.
- 1949 Steamer "Noronic" burns at pier killing 128 (Toronto Canada)
- 1949 The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
- 1953 First successful separation of Siamese twins
- 1955 Visitor posting - Stewart Colin William gibbs born this day - United Kingdom
- 1956 Visitor posting - Robin's birthday
- 1956 Television was first broadcast in Australia.
- 1957 Scott Crossfield takes X-15 up for first powered flight
- 1957 The North East Humanists group was founded in Newcastle upon Tyne.
- 1959 Typhoon kills 2,000 in Japan and Korea
- 1963 "The Fugitive" premiers on ABC TV
- 1963 Train struck makeshift bus full of migrant workers, killing 32
- 1964 "Bewitched" premiers on ABC TV
- 1967 "Mission Impossible" premieres on CBS-TV
- 1967 Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show.
- 1967 Mount Washington cog railway train derails, kills 8 (NH)
- 1968 Zond 5 completes circumnavigation of the Moon
- 1970 Fighting breaks out along the Syria-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen.
- 1970 Visitor posting - Scott Robinson born - USA
- 1970 Visitor posting - TINA SPENCE born - USA No
- 1970 Visitor posting - Ruben Ortega is Born..... - USA
- 1972 "M*A*S*H," premiers on TV
- 1972 BART begins passenger service in SF
- 1972 The first episode of M*A*S*H premieres on CBS.
- 1974 Courageous (US) beats Southern Cross (Aust) in 23rd America's Cup
- 1974 USS Enterprise sailed from San Francisco with VF-1 and VF-2 aboard. This event marked the initial deployment of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, the Navy's newest fighter
- 1975 Rollout of first space shuttle orbiter Enterprise (OV-101)
- 1976 The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA.
- 1978 The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.
- 1978 the Camp David accord is signed by Begin, Sadat and Carter
- 1980 Solidarity labor union in Poland forms
- 1980 Visitor posting - Micah Boersma is born in Portland, OR. Ironic twist is that his parents lived in Vancouver, WA and drove across the state lines to have him. - USA
- 1983 Vanessa Williams of NY became first black Miss America
- 1984 Baseball: Reggie Jackson becomes the 13th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California.
- 1984 Brian Mulroney sworn in as Canada's 18th PM succeeding John Turner
- 1985 Soyuz T-14 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
- 1986 Visitor posting - September 17, 1986 Bridgette's birthday
- 1987 Phila celebrates 200th anniversary of the Constitution
- 1988 Opening ceremony of the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul, South Korea.
- 1989 Hurricane Hugo begins 4 day sweep through Caribbean, killing 62
- 1989 NYC court of appeals overturns lower court decision and returns America's Cup back to the US (from New Zealand)
- 1990 Newspaper Guild votes 242-35 to keep NY Post publishing
- 1990 Visitor Posting - Shelby Trynn Pritchard was born
- 1990 Visitor posting - Jordan J was born. - USA
- 1990 Soviet Union and Saudi Arabia restore diplomatic ties
- 1991 North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
- 1991 North and South Korea joins the UNsep18
- 1991 Visitor posting - September 17 1991 Parker Heath was born
- 1993 Last Russian troops leave Poland.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Chris C. Was born
- 1993 Visitor posting - Mikki's birthday
- 1994 Visitor posting - brionna's birthday - USA
- 1995 Visitor posting - Carolina aka Caro took her first little breath!!! :D - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - Sydney Analise Strother was born at MCG hospital in Georgia. - USA
- 2004 Barry Bonds becomes only the third player in Major League Baseball history to reach 700 career home runs.
- 2004 Tamil is declared first classical language in India.
- 2006 The WB Television Network went off-the-air after eleven and a half years. The CW Television Network launched the following day.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Kurt's Birthday (double nickels)
- 2008 The SEC bans some aggressive short selling of securities
- 2009 Visitor posting - September 17 2009 Ganesh Shankar Shedge - Birthday
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