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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Space Shuttle Enterprise -
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Paratroopers landing in Holland as part of Operation Market Garden
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| 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. | Tagged with {{No footnotes}} |
| 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. | too many pictures |
| 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 |
| 1944 – Second World War: The Allies began Operation Market Garden, the largest airborne operation up to that time. | refimprove |
| 1948 – Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte was assassinated by the militant Zionist group Lehi. | unreferenced section |
Eligible
- 1176 – Byzantine–Seljuk wars: The Seljuk 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.
- 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.
- 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 – Second World War: The Royal Navy lost its first warship in the war when German submarine U-29 torpedoed and sank HMS Courageous.
- 1980 – The Polish trade union Solidarity was founded as the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country.
- 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.
Notes
- Operation Berlin (Arnhem)/Battle of Arnhem are featured on September 25, so Operation Market Garden should not appear in the same year.
- Gdańsk Agreement/1982 demonstrations in Poland are featured on August 31, so Solidarity should not appear in the same year
September 17: Constitution Day in the United States
- 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.
- 1849 – American slave Harriet Tubman (pictured) escaped; she later orchestrated the rescues of more than 70 other slaves via the "Underground Railroad".
- 1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germany's attack on that country from the west.
- 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.
- 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.