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 260^th day of the year 2025 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 105 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Wednesday.

Under the Julian calendar, this day is September 4, 2025 – a Wednesday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?

When this day started, 29,301,120 minutes 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 ‘dihectahexacontagon’ 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 153 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 4,653 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.

September 17 Historical Events

• 1814 –
  Francis Scott Key finishes his poem “Defence of Fort McHenry”, later to be the lyrics of “The Star-Spangled Banner”.
• 1920 –
  The American Professional Football Association (later renamed National Football League) is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.
• 1928 –
  The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
• 1939 –
  Taisto Mäki becomes the first man to run the 10,000 metres in under 30 minutes, in a time of 29:52.6
• 1941 –
  World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense, restoring Vsevobuch in the face of the Great Patriotic War, is issued
• 1948 –
  The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.
• 1980 –
  Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
• 1983 –
  Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
• 1991 –
  Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
• 1992 –
  An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.

Who were born on September 17?

• 1773 –
  Jonathan Alder, American settler (d. 1849)
• 1881 –
  Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter, English soldier (d. 1955)
• 1903 –
  Minanogawa Tōzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 34th Yokozuna (d. 1971)
• 1917 –
  Isang Yun, Korean composer who spent most of his creative career in Germany
• 1933 –
  Chuck Grassley, American politician
• 1945 –
  Bhakti Caru Swami, Indian spiritual leader
• 1968 –
  Anastacia, American singer
• 1969 –
  Steady B, American rapper and emcee
• 1982 –
  Hope Larson, American illustrator and cartoonist
• 1984 –
  Eugenia Volodina, Russian model

Who died on September 17?

• 456 –
  Remistus, Roman general of Visigothic origin
• 1422 –
  Constantine II of Bulgaria
• 1630 –
  Thomas Lake, English statesman (b. 1567)
• 1676 –
  Sabbatai Zevi, Montenegrin rabbi, kabbalist, and founder of the Jewish Sabbatean movement (b. 1626)
• 1762 –
  Francesco Geminiani, Italian violinist (b. 1687)
• 1908 –
  Thomas Selfridge, First Lieutenant in the U.S. Army (b. 1882)
• 1909 –
  Sir Thomas Bent, Premier of Victoria (b. 1838)
• 1982 –
  Manos Loïzos, Greek composer (b. 1937)
• 1991 –
  Zino Francescatti, French violinist (b. 1902)
• 2005 –
  Jacques Lacarrière, French writer (b. 1925)