17th of September: Ultimately all days become history and most of the times forgotten. Here are some events that took place on 17th of September. There is an incident which has not yet been updated on Wikipedia. I hope they will do it one day. 456 – Remistus, Roman general (magister militum), is besieged by a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace in Classis, outside the city. 1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought between the Byzantine Empire and the Seljuk Turks. 1577 – The Peace of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots. 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. 1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia. 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. 1859 – Joshua A. Norton declares himself Norton I, Emperor of the United States. 1862 – American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lees Confederate army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history. 1862 – American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war. 1894 – Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War. 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. 1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germanys invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939. 1939 – World War II: A German U-boat U 29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous. 1940 – World War II: Following the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion indefinitely. 1941 – World War II: Soviet forces enter Teheran marking the end of the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran. 1943 – World War II: The Russian city of Bryansk is liberated from Germans. 1948 – The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union. 1957 – Malaysia joins the United Nations. 1976 – The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA. 1978 – The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt. 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. 1983 – Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America. 1987 – Pope John Paul II embraces an AIDS-infected boy while visiting San Francisco. 1991 – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. 2006 – Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years. 2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City. 2012-............................................................................
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