History Events on September 17

The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.

#Linux

The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

#Civic_Arena_(Pittsburgh)

Philippine-American War: Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac.

#Philippine-American_War

The Nizam of Hyderabad surrenders his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union.

#Nizam_of_Hyderabad

The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.

#New_York_Stock_Exchange

Peace between Sweden and Russia in the Finnish War; the territory that will become Finland is ceded to Russia by the Treaty of Fredrikshamn.

#Finnish_War

The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.

#Boston

The Kurdish Ararat rebellion is suppressed by the Turks.

#Ararat_rebellion

The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe.

#Treaty_of_Fort_Pitt

Second Boer War: Boers capture a squadron of the 17th Lancers at the Battle of Elands River.

#Battle_of_Elands_River_(1901)

The Canadian steamship SS Noronic burns in Toronto Harbour with the loss of over 118 lives.

#SS_Noronic

Andrew Fisher becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

#Andrew_Fisher

The Niagara Gorge Railroad ceases operations after a rockslide.

#Niagara_Gorge_Railroad

Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.

#Estonia

The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.

#Presidio_of_San_Francisco

Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules".

#Antonie_van_Leeuwenhoek

Sweden wins a major victory at the Battle of Breitenfeld against the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years' War.

#Battle_of_Breitenfeld_(1631)

American Revolutionary War: The Invasion of Canada begins with the Siege of Fort St. Jean.

#American_Revolutionary_War

The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge, who becomes the first airplane fatality.

#Thomas_Selfridge

World War II: German submarine U-29 sinks the British aircraft carrier HMS Courageous.

#German_submarine_U-29_(1936)

World War II: The Soviet invasion of Poland begins.

#World_War_II

Polish-Ottoman War: The Ottoman Empire defeats the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Battle of Cecora.

#Polish-Ottoman_War_(1620-21)

Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.

#Vanessa_Williams

Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia".

#Pedro_Fróilaz_de_Traba

World War II: Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the "Market" half of Operation Market Garden.

#Operation_Market_Garden

American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.

#Harriet_Tubman

The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.

#Battle_of_Chawinda

World War I: The Race to the Sea begins.

#World_War_I

World War II: Due to setbacks in the Battle of Britain and approaching autumn weather, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion.

#Battle_of_Britain

Battle of the Yalu River, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.

#Battle_of_the_Yalu_River_(1894)

World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

#Manfred_von_Richthofen

American Civil War: The Allegheny Arsenal explosion results in the single largest civilian disaster during the war.

#Allegheny_Arsenal

World War II: Soviet forces enter Tehran during the Anglo-Soviet invasion of Iran.

#Anglo-Soviet_invasion_of_Iran

The Border Protection Corps is established in the Second Polish Republic for the defence of the eastern border against armed Soviet raids and local bandits.

#Border_Protection_Corps

Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.

#Anastasio_Somoza_Debayle

Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.

#Fourpeaked_Mountain

The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people.

#1928_Okeechobee_hurricane

American Civil War: George B. McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army in the single-day Battle of Antietam, the bloodiest day in American military history.

#American_Civil_War

Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.

#Bangladesh

Argentine Civil Wars: The State of Buenos Aires defeats the Argentine Confederation at the Battle of Pavón.

#Argentine_Civil_Wars

A speech by Laureano Gómez leads to the escalation of the Leticia Incident.

#Laureano_Gómez

An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country.

#?szöd_speech

World War II: German forces are attacked by the Allies in the Battle of San Marino.

#Battle_of_San_Marino

Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.

#2016_New_York_and_New_Jersey_bombings

The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.

#Space_Shuttle_Enterprise

An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin.

#Mykonos_restaurant_assassinations

Second Boer War: A Boer column defeats a British force at the Battle of Blood River Poort.

#Second_Boer_War

Frida Kahlo suffers near-fatal injuries in a bus accident in Mexico, causing her to abandon her medical studies and take up art.

#Frida_Kahlo

The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.

#Camp_David_Accords

War of the Pyrenees: France defeats a Spanish force at the Battle of Peyrestortes.

#War_of_the_Pyrenees

A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea.

Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.

Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.

After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gda?sk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established.

The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding is first published.

The Lehi (also known as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the United Nations to mediate between the Arab nations and Israel.

World War II: Soviet troops launch the Tallinn Offensive against Germany and pro-independence Estonian units.

World War II: A decree of the Soviet State Committee of Defense restores compulsory military training.

The National Football League is organized as the American Professional Football Association in Canton, Ohio.

Joshua A. Norton declares himself "Norton I, Emperor of the United States."

Flanders Campaign: France completes its conquest of the Austrian Netherlands at the Battle of Sprimont.

The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.

The Battle of Vilanova is fought between Portugal and Spain during the Portuguese Restoration War.

The Treaty of Bergerac is signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.

Thirteen Years' War: A Polish army under Piotr Dunin decisively defeats the Teutonic Order at the Battle of ?wiecino.

Louis the Great's daughter, Mary, is crowned "king" of Hungary.

The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empire to recover central Anatolia from the Seljuk Turks.

Remistus, Roman general (magister militum), is besieged by a Gothic force at Ravenna and later executed in the Palace in Classis, outside the city.