On this day in History - Sep 17
- 0309 - Papa Eusébio dies.
- 0879 - King Charles III of France was born (d. 0929).
- 1176 - The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.
- 1179 - Hildegard of Bingen dies (b. 1098). German mystic and poet.
- 1192 - Minamoto no Sanetomo was born (d. 1219). Japanese shogun.
- 1271 - Wenceslas II of Bohemia and Poland was born (d. 1305).
- 1462 - The Battle of Świecino (or Battle of Żarnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War
- 1550 - Pope Paul V was born (d. 1621).
- 1563 - Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland dies. English soldier
- 1574 - Pedro Menéndez de Avilés dies (b. 1519). First Spanish Governor of Florida
- 1577 - Peace of Bergerac signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.
- 1580 - Francisco de Quevedo was born (d. 1645). Spanish writer.
- 1621 - Robert Bellarmine dies (b. 1542). Italian saint.
- 1630 - Thomas Lake dies (b. 1567). English statesman.
- 1630 - Ranuccio II Farnese, Duke of Parma was born (d. 1694)
- 1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.
- 1639 - Hans Herr was born (d. 1725). Swiss-born Mennonite bishop.
- 1657 - Sophia Alekseyevna was born (d. 1704). Regent of Russian.
- 1665 - King Philip IV of Spain, III of Portugal dies (b. 1605).
- 1677 - Stephen Hales was born (d. Jan 1781). English botanist, physiologist, who pioneered the quantitative experimental approach in plant and animal physiology. He was a clergyman whose work in plant physiology, Vegetable Staticks (1787), included early demonstrations of the importance of air and light in plant growth, and of the role of transpiration in causing upward sap flow.
- 1679 - John of Austria the Younger dies (b. 1629). Spanish general.
- 1683 - Leeuwenhoek's observation of bacteria - In 1683, the Dutch scientist Antony van Leeuwenhoek wrote to the Royal Society reporting his discovery of microscopic living animalcules (live bacteria).
- 1687 - Durastante Natalucci was born (d. 1772). Italian historian.
- 1710 - Manuel Bernardes morre. Padre e escritor português.
- 1727 - Glückel of Hameln dies (b. 1647). German businesswoman and diarist.
- 1730 - Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben was born (d. 1794). Prussian army officer.
- 1739 - John Rutledge was born (d. 1800). 2nd (appointed) Chief Justice of the United States
- 1743 - Marquis de Condorcet was born (d. 1794). French mathematician, philosopher, and political scientist.
- 1762 - Francesco Geminiani dies (b. 1687). Italian violinist and composer.
- 1764 - John Goodricke was born (d. 20 Apr 1786). English astronomer who was the first to notice that some variable stars were periodic
- 1768 - Morre Manuel da Maia, reconstrutor de Lisboa após o terramoto de 1755.
- 1771 - Tobias Smollett dies (b. 1721). Scottish novelist.
- 1775 - François-Marius Granet was born (d. 21 Nov 1849). French painter.
- 1776 - The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.
- 1777 - Francisco Manuel Trigoso was born (d. 11 Dez 1838). Portuguese politician.
- 1778 - Treaty of Fort Pitt signed, the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware).
- 1806 - Guillaume-Benjamin-Amand Duchenne was born (d. 1875). French neurologist, born in Boulogne, who studied at Douai and Paris. He was first to describe several nervous and muscular disorders and, in developing medical treatment for them, created electrodiagnosis and electrotherapy.
- 1808 - Benjamin Bourne dies (b. 1755). American politician.
- 1809 - Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War. The territory to become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.
- 1819 - Thomas Hendricks was born (d. 1885). Vice President of the United States
- 1820 - Émile Augier was born (d. 1889). French dramatist.
- 1823 - Abraham-Louis Bréguet died (b. 10 Jan 1747). Swiss-French horologist, whose artistic flair, scientific rigour and technical innovation made him the leading French of his time.
- 1826 - Bernhard Riemann was born (d. 20 Jul 1866). German mathematician whose work widely influenced geometry and analysis.
- 1836 - Antoine Laurent de Jussieu dies (b. 12 Apr 1748). French botanist who developed the principles that served as the foundation of a natural system of plant classification.
- 1839 - Jerónimo Gutiérrez de Mendoza dies. Colombian politician.
- 1846 - Seth Carlo Chandler Jr. was born (d. 31 Dec 1913). American astronomer best known for his discovery (1884-85) of the Chandler Wobble, a complex movement in the Earth's axis of rotation (now refered to as polar motion) that causes latitude to vary with a period of 14 months.
- 1850 - Guerra Junqueiro was born in Freixo de Espada à Cinta (d. 1923). Portuguese journalist, politician, writer and poet. A revolutionary, he wrote violent satiric poems attacking conservatism, romanticism, and the Church. Typical are A morte de Dom Jõao (1874) and A velhice do Padre Eterno (1885).He later turned to writing simple, touching lyrics of rural life, as in Os simples (1892). His work also included A Musa em Férias (1879), Finis Patriae (1890), Os Simples (1892), Pátria (1896), Oração ao Pão (1903), Oração à Luz (1904), Poesias Dispersas (1920) and with Guilhermo de Azevedo: Viagem à Roda da Parvónia.
- 1851 - John Kidd died (born 10 Sep 1775) English chemist and physician who obtained naphthalene (1819), which name he coined.
- 1854 - David Dunbar Buick was born (d. 6 Mar 1929. Scottish-born American inventor and pioneer automobile manufacturer. He invented the more powerful valve-in-head engine and the windshield.
- 1857 - Konstantin Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky was born (d. 19 Sep 1935). Russian rocket scientist and inventor.
- 1858 - Robert William Vonnoh was born (d. 28 Dec 1933). American Impressionist painter.
- 1859 - Joshua A. Norton declares himself Emperor Norton I of the United States.
- 1862 - American Civil War: George McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the Battle of Antietam.
- 1863 - Alfred de Vigny dies (b. 1797). French author.
- 1869 - Christian Lous Lange was born (d. 11 Dec 1938). Norwegian pacifist who shared (with Karl Branting [23 Nov 1860 - 24 Feb 1925] the 1921 Nobel Prize for Peace.
- 1873 - Alexander Berry dies (b. 1781). Scottish adventurer and settler in Australia.
- 1877 - Manuel Laranjeira was born (d. 1912). Portuguese physician, dramatist and poet (Comigo).
- 1877 - William Fox Talbot died (b. 11 Feb 1800). English mathematician, physicist, chemist who invented the negative-positive photographic process
- 1879 - Eugène Viollet-le-Duc dies (b. 1814). French architect.
- 1879 - Rube Foster was born (d. 1930). American baseball player, manager and executive.
- 1881 - Alfred Francis Blakeney Carpenter was born (d. 1955). English soldier.
- 1883 - William Carlos Williams was born (d. 1963). American poet, playwright, essayist and writer who won a Pulitzer prize for Pictures from Brueghel and Other Poems.
- 1883 - Pedro Carbo becomes President of Ecuador.
- 1884 - Charles Tomlinson Griffes was born (d. 1920). American composer.
- 1890 - Gabriel Heatter was born. American radio commentator
- 1894 - Battle of Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.
- 1897 - Earl Webb was born (d. 1965). Baseball player.
- 1897 - Morre Manuel José Gonçalves Couto (n. 1819). Missionário pedâneo, autor da Missão Abreviada.
- 1900 - John Willard Marriott was born (d. 1985). American hotelier.
- 1900 - Hughie Critz was born (d. 1980). Baseball player.
- 1900 - Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham at Mabitac.
- 1901 - José Régio (José Maria dos Reis Pereira) was born in Vila do Conde (d. 22 Dec 1969). Portuguese writer.
- 1903 - Karel Miljon was born (d. 1984). Dutch boxer.
- 1905 - Merrill W. Chase was born (d. 5 Jan 2004). American immunologist who helped redefine the fundamental nature of the immune system.
- 1906 - Edgar Wayburn was born. American Environmentalist.
- 1907 - Warren Burger was born (d. 1995). 15th Chief Justice of the United States
- 1908 - Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge crashes a Wright Brothers airplane and becomes the first airplane fatality.
- 1908 - The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge (b. 1882) as passenger, crashes; killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.
- 1912 - Irena Kwiatkowska was born. Polish actress, comiedienne.
- 1914 - Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- 1916 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
- 1916 - Oswald Garrison "Mike" Villard Jr was born (d. 7 Jan 2004). American electronics engineer who developed over-the-horizon radar.
- 1918 - Chaim Herzog was born (d. 1997). President of Israel.
- 1921 - Virgilio Barco Vargas was born. President of Colombia (1986-90)
- 1922 - Agostinho Neto was born (d. 1979). Angolan politician.
- 1923 - Hank Williams was born (d. 1953). American musician.
- 1924 - The Border Defence Corps was established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.
- 1926 - Bill Black was born (d. 1965). American musician.
- 1927 - George Blanda was born. American football player
- 1928 - The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in US history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
- 1928 - Roddy McDowall was born (d. 1998). English actor.
- 1929 - Sir Stirling Moss was born. English race car driver
- 1929 - Pat Crowley was born. American actress
- 1930 - Thomas Stafford was born. American astronaut
- 1930 - Edgar Mitchell was born. Astronaut
- 1931 - Anne Bancroft was born (d. 2005). American actress.
- 1933 - Dorothy Loudon was born (d. 2003). American actress.
- 1933 - Claude Provost was born (d. 1984). National Hockey League player.
- 1933 - Joseph De Piro dies (b. 1877). Maltese missionary.
- 1934 - Maureen Connolly was born (d. 1969). American tennis player .
- 1935 - Ken Kesey was born (d. 2001). American author.
- 1937 - Orlando Cepeda was born. Puerto Rican Major League Baseball player.
- 1938 - Bobby Wine was born. American Major League Baseball player
- 1938 - Bruno Jasieński dies (b. 1901). Polish poet.
- 1939 - David Souter was born. U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice.
- 1939 - The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defence War of 1939.
- 1939 - Taisto Mäki of Finland establishes a new world record on 10.000m. 29.52.6. First time under 30 min. In Helsinki Olympic Stadium in Finland.
- 1941 - Bob Matsui was born (d. 2005). U.S. Congressman from California.
- 1942 - Des Lynam was born. English television presenter
- 1944 - Reinhold Messner was born. Austrian mountain climber.
- 1945 - David Emerson was born. Canadian politician.
- 1946 - Billy Bonds was born. English footballer.
- 1947 - James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.
- 1947 - João Carlos Taveira was born. Brazilian poet.
- 1947 - Tessa Jowell was born. British politician
- 1947 - James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.
- 1948 - Jeff MacNelly was born (d. 2000). American political cartoonist.
- 1948 - John Ritter was born (d. 2003). American actor.
- 1948 - Lehi (also know as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arabs and Jews.
- 1949 - The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbor with the loss of over 118 lives.
- 1950 - Narendra Modi was born. Indian politician
- 1951 - Robert A. Lovett was sworn in as the 4th Secretary of Defense of United States.
- 1951 - Cassandra Peterson was born. American actress.
- 1952 - Pedro Luis Ferrer was born. Cuban musician.
- 1953 - Luís Filipe Marques Amado was born. Portuguese politician (Minister of Defense)
- 1953 - Altaf Hussain was born. Pakistani politician and founder of MQM
- 1954 - Sandra Pêra was born. Brazilian singer, actress and film director.
- 1954 - Rocky Marciano retained possession of the world heavyweight boxing title. He knocked out Ezzard Charles in the 8th round of their championship bout.
- 1954 - Joël-François Durand was born. French composer
- 1955 - Charles Martinet was born. American actor
- 1955 - Marina Lima was born. Brazilian singer
- 1956 - Rita Rudner was born. American comedienne
- 1957 - Omar Q. Beckins was born (d.1989). American medical researcher.
- 1957 - Malásia é admitida como Estado-Membro da ONU
- 1959 - O pintor catalão Modest Cuixart, recebe o Premio Internacional de pintura, da V Bienal de São Paulo (uma pintura de Cuixart : Nemesius Hals )
- 1959 - Charles Lawson was born. Northern Irish actor
- 1960 - John Franco was norn. American baseball player
- 1960 - Damon Hill was born. English race car driver
- 1960 - Avião em que transportava Dag Hammarskjöld (um DC-6B), cai no Congo.
- 1961 - 131 padres diocesanos e religiosos foram expulsos de Cuba
- 1961 - The Minnesota Vikings play their first NFL game, defeating the Chicago Bears 37-13, with Fran Tarkenton throwing 4 touchdowns and running for 1 touchdown.
- 1962 - Baz Luhrmann was born. Welsh-born film director and producer
- 1965 - Bryan Singer was born. American director
- 1965 - Gore Verbinski was born. American director.
- 1965 - Yuji Naka was born. Japanese video game programmer
- 1966 - Doug E. Fresh was born. American rapper, record producer, and beatboxer
- 1966 - Fritz Wunderlich dies (b. 1930). German tenor.
- 1967 - Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show. Morrison sang the lyrics, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher." From the Song, Light My Fire when asked not to.
- 1969 - Ken Doherty was born. Irish snooker player
- 1970 - Fighting breaks out along the Syrio-Jordanian border between Jordanian troops and the fedayeen.
- 1971 - Jens Voigt was born. German cyclist.
- 1971 - Adriana Sklenaříková was born. Slovakian model.
- 1972 - The first episode of M*A*S*H premieres on CBS.
- 1972 - Akim Tamiroff dies (b. 1899). Georgian actor.
- 1973 - Mexico: Es asesinado en Monterrey, Nuevo León, el prominente industrial regiomontano, don Eugenio Garza Sada.
- 1973 - Hugo Winterhalter dies (b. 1909). American bandleader.
- 1973 - Anastacia was born. American singer.
- 1974 - Rasheed Wallace was born. American basketball player.
- 1974 - Mirah was born. American musician
- 1975 - Jimmie Johnson was born. American race car driver
- 1975 - Austin St. John was born. American actor
- 1975 - Constantine Maroulis was born. American Idol Finalist
- 1976 - Daniella Rush was born. Czech pornographic actress
- 1977 - Simone Perrotta was born. Italian football player
- 1978 - Shawn Horcoff was born. Canadian Ice Hockey player
- 1978 - In the 30th Emmy Awards winners included All in the Family, Ed Asner & Sada Thompson.
- 1979 - Akin Ayodele was born. American football player
- 1979 - Chuck Comeau was born. Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
- 1980 - Anastasio Somoza Debayle dies assassaniates in Paraguay (b. 1925). President of Nicaragua
- 1980 - Jean Piaget died (b. 9 Aug 1896). Swiss child psychologist and zoologist
- 1980 - Solidarity labor union in Poland forms
- 1980 - Danny Haren was born. Baseball player.
- 1981 - Bakari Koné was born. Ivory Coast Footballer.
- 1983 - Vanessa Williams becomes first African American Miss America. The following July, she also became the first Miss America to resign in the wake of her Penthouse magazine scandal.
- 1983 - Jennifer Peña was born. American singer.
- 1984 - Brian Mulroney is sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada.
- 1984 - Baseball: Reggie Jackson becomes the 13th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California.
- 1984 - Richard Basehart dies (b. 1914). American actor.
- 1984 - Eugenia Volodina was born. Russian supermodel.
- 1985 - Alexander Ovechkin was born. Russian hockey player.
- 1985 - Laura Ashley dies (b. 7 Sep 1925). Welsh designer.
- 1989 - In the 41st Emmy Awards winners included LA Law, Cheers, Dana Delany & Candice Bergen.
- 1991 - North Korea, South Korea, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
- 1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
- 1991 - Zino Francescatti dies (b. 1902). French violinist
- 1993 - Christian Nyby dies (b. 1913). American film and television director
- 1994 - Karl Popper dies (b. 1902). Austrian-boorn British philosopher
- 1996 - Spiro Agnew dies (b. 1918). Vice President of the United States
- 1997 - Red Skelton dies (b. 1913) American actor and comedian .
- 2001 - The Late Show with David Letterman is the first TV talk show to return to the airwaves six days after terrorists attack the United States in New York City and Washington D.C.
- 2001 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average opens for the first time after the September 11 attacks. The stocks plummet throughout the trading session and posts its biggest point drop in its history closing down 684.81 points to 8920.70.
- 2002 - North Korea confesses abductions of Japanese. During talks in Pyongyang with Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, aimed at normalizing relations, North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il, desperate to get economic aid from Japan, confesses that North Korean secret services have abducted 11 Japanese in past years.
- 2002 - Furacão Isidore chega à Jamaica
- 2003 - Erich Hallhuber dies (b.1951). German actor.
- 2003 - Sheb Wooley dies (b. 1921). American actor and singer.
- 2004 - Tamil is declared first classical language in India.
- 2004 - Major League Baseball: Barry Bonds reaches an elite number of 700 homeruns.
- 2005 - Alfred Reed dies (b. 1921). American composer.
- 2006 - The WB Television Network will go off-the-air after eleven and a half years. The CW Television Network launches the following day.
- Feast of Hildegard of Bingen
- The fourth day of the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greek mythology, when the initiates sacrificed a pig.
- Feast of Saint Lambert (martyr)
- Angola's National Heroes' Day
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