What are the important events that happened on September 17? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.

September 17: Facts & Myths About This Day

September 17 is the 261^st 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.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 4, 2024 – a Tuesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 479,592 hours has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.

Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘dihectahexacontahenagon’ day.

Virgo is the zodiac 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.

The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,288 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

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September 17 Historical Events

• 1462 –
  The Battle of Świecino (also known as the Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years’ War.
• 1894 –
  The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
• 1920 –
  The American Professional Football Association (later renamed National Football League) is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
• 1944 –
  World War II: Allied Airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the “Market” half of Operation Market Garden.
• 1948 –
  The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
• 1949 –
  The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.
• 1980 –
  After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.
• 1991 –
  Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
• 2001 –
  The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 Attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.
• 2007 –
  AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York, New York.

Who were born on September 17?

• 1874 –
  Sir Walter Murdoch, Australian academic and essayist (d. 1970)
• 1915 –
  M. F. Husain, Indian painter (d. 2011)
• 1926 –
  Hovie Lister, American gospel pianist (d. 2001)
• 1939 –
  Shelby Flint, American singer
• 1961 –
  Nives Meroi, Italian mountaineer
• 1968 –
  Jonn Penney lead singer of Ned’s Atomic Dustbin
• 1974 –
  Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player
• 1978 –
  Shawn Horcoff, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1979 –
  Billy Miller, American actor
• 1984 –
  De La Ghetto, Puerto Rican reggaeton singer

Who died on September 17?

• 1179 –
  Hildegard of Bingen, German abbess and composer (b. 1098)
• 1665 –
  Philip IV of Spain (b. 1605)
• 1679 –
  John of Austria the Younger, Spanish general (b. 1629)
• 1803 –
  Franz Xaver Süssmayr, Austrian composer (b. 1766)
• 1873 –
  Alexander Berry, Scottish adventurer (b. 1781)
• 1879 –
  Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (b. 1814)
• 1933 –
  Joseph De Piro, Maltese missionary (b. 1877)
• 1971 –
  Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader (b. 1937)
• 1988 –
  Hilde Gueden, Austrian soprano (b. 1917)
• 1997 –
  Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)

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