Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 17
This is a list of selected September 17 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
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Emperor Norton
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 1716 – French soldier Jean Thurel enlisted in the Régiment de Touraine at the age of 18, beginning a career of military service that would span 75 years. | French WP states the birth date may be a fraud |
| 1787 – The text of the United States Constitution was finalized at the Philadelphia Convention. | refimprove section, clean up section |
| 1809 – The Treaty of Fredrikshamn concluded the Finnish War between Russia and Sweden, with present-day Finland becoming an autonomous Grand Duchy under Tsar Alexander I. | needs more footnotes |
| 1894 – The Imperial Japanese Navy defeated the Beiyang Fleet of Qing China in the Battle of the Yalu River at the mouth of the Yalu River in Korea Bay, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War. | refimprove |
| 1916 – World War I: "The Red Baron", a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France. | Featured on April 21 |
| 1930 – The Turkish government suppressed the Ararat rebellion, an uprising amongst the Kurdish inhabitants of the province of Ağrı. | refimprove section |
| 1944 – Second World War: The Allies began Operation Market Garden, the largest airborne operation up to that time. | refimprove sections |
| 1948 – Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte was assassinated by the militant Zionist group Lehi. | unreferenced section |
| 1978 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Accords after twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. | refimprove section |
| 2006 – Mass protests across Hungary erupted after Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány's private speech was leaked to the public, in which he admitted that the Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election. | refimprove |
| 2011 – Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, organized a protest against corporate influence on democracy at Zuccotti Park in New York City that became known as Occupy Wall Street. | too detailed |
| Hook Nose (d. 1868) | lead too long |
| Hildegard of Bingen (d. 1179) | too much unreferenced |
Eligible
- 1176 – Byzantine–Seljuq wars: The Seljuq Turks prevented the Byzantines from taking the interior of Anatolia at the Battle of Myriokephalon in Phrygia.
- 1630 – Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony founded the city of Boston.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army under Richard Montgomery began the Siege of Fort St. Jean in the British province of Quebec.
- 1849 – American slave Harriet Tubman escaped; she later orchestrated the rescues of more than 70 other slaves via the "Underground Railroad".
- 1859 – Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the United States, Joshua Norton distributed letters to various newspapers in San Francisco, proclaiming himself Emperor Norton.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Almost 23,000 total casualties were suffered at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where Confederate and Union troops fought to a tactical stalemate.
- 1914 – World War I: The Franco-British and German armies began the "Race to the Sea", reciprocal attempts to envelop the northern flanks of each other through northern France and Belgium.
- 1939 – Second World War: The Royal Navy lost its first warship in the war when German submarine U-29 torpedoed and sank HMS Courageous.
- 1980 – Solidarity, a Polish trade union, was founded as the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country.
- Born/died: Stephen Hales (b. 1677) · Jonathan Alder (b. 1773) · Periyar E. V. Ramasamy (b. 1879) · Henri Julien (d. 1908) · David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley (b. 1929) · Thomas P. Stafford (b. 1930) · Narendra Modi (b. 1950)
Notes
- Gdańsk Agreement/1982 demonstrations in Poland are featured on August 31, so Solidarity should not appear in the same year
- Operation Berlin (Arnhem)/Battle of Arnhem are featured on September 25, so Operation Market Garden should not appear in the same year.
September 17: Constitution Day in the United States
Smoke rises above Amman during Black September
- 1658 – Portuguese Restoration War: Having crossed the Minho and entered Portuguese territory, a Spanish army was victorious in the Battle of Vilanova.
- 1793 – War of the Pyrenees: Forces from the French Army of the Eastern Pyrenees defeated two divisions of the Army of Catalonia, marking the high point of the Spanish invasion of Roussillon.
- 1914 – Andrew Fisher, whose previous term as prime minister of Australia oversaw a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s, became prime minister for the third time.
- 1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germany's attack on the country from the west.
- 1970 – The Jordanian Army commenced operations to oust Palestinian fedayeen from Jordan, in what became known as Black September (smoke rising above Amman pictured).
Elizabeth Canning (b. 1734) · Frederick Corbett (b. 1853) · Mandawuy Yunupingu (b. 1956)
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