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 261st 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, 1,726,531,200 seconds 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
- 1631 –Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years War.
- 1776 –The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
- 1809 –Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
- 1849 –American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
- 1862 –American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.
- 1894 –The Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
- 1939 –World War II: The Soviet Union joins Nazi Germany’s invasion of Poland during the Polish Defensive War of 1939.
- 1961 –The world’s first retractable-dome stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh.
- 1976 –The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA.
- 1992 –An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
Who were born on September 17?
- 1901 –Francis Chichester, English adventurer (d. 1972)
- 1942 –Des Lynam, English television presenter
- 1951 –Cassandra Peterson, American actress
- 1954 –Joël-François Durand, French composer
- 1960 –Damon Hill, English race car driver and 1996 F1 world champion
- 1963 –Steven Dye, English musician (Scarlet Party), (The Alan Parsons Project)
- 1963 –William Shockley (actor), American actor
- 1969 –Ken Doherty, Irish snooker player
- 1981 –Francis Manioru, Solomon Islander sprinter
- 1982 –Wade Robson, Australian choreographer
Who died on September 17?
- 1422 –Constantine II of Bulgaria
- 1808 –Benjamin Bourne, American politician (b. 1755)
- 1899 –Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist (b. 1842)
- 1951 –Jimmy Yancey, American pianist (b. 1898)
- 1971 –Carlos Lamarca, Brazilian military turned guerrilla leader (b. 1937)
- 1985 –Laura Ashley, Welsh designer (b. 1925)
- 1997 –Red Skelton, American actor and comedian (b. 1913)
- 1998 –Geoffrey Dutton, Australian author and historian (b. 1922)
- 1998 –Gustav Nezval, Czech actor (b. 1907)
- 2009 –Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian Islamist terrorist (b. 1968)
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