September, 17th

September 17 is the 260th (two hundred and sixtieth) day of the year—the 261st (two hundred and sixty-first) in leap years—in the Gregorian calendar. There are 105 days left to end the year.

Events

• 1007: 25 km south-west of Baghdad (Irak), an earthquake killed 16 000.
• 1111: Alfonso Raimúndez became king of Galicia, later King Alfonso VII.
• 1176: The Byzantine army and the Silent Turkish army fought the battle of Miriocephalo.
• 1303: In Shanxi, China, at 0:20 (local time) a violent earthquake of magnitude 8.0 occurred on the seismological scale of Richter, leaving a balance of between 200 000 and 500 000 dead.
• 1497: Pedro de Estopiñán took Melilla in the name of the Dukes of Medina Sidonia for the Crown of Castile.
• 1631: Gustavo Adolfo II of Sweden and his army defeat the imperial forces in command of Tilly's count by putting the 30-year war in favor of Protestant forces.
• 1787: In the United States, Congressmen ratify the constitution.
• 1788: In Karansebes (now Romania) the battle of Karansebes occurs, where the Austrian soldiers attack fellows of their own troops by mistake.
• 1809: The Finnish War officially ends.
• 1831: in Chile Rengo is given the title of city.
• 1843: The University of Chile, the successor of the Royal University of San Felipe, was founded in Santiago de Chile.
• 1861: In the framework of the Argentine Civil War, the forces of the province of Buenos Aires, in charge of Mitre, beat the national forces of Urquiza in the battle of Pavón.
• 1869: In Argentina, during the presidency of Domingo Sarmiento, the first national census is completed.
• 1894: In the framework of the first but Japanese war, the Japanese defeat the Chinese in the naval battle of the Yalu River.
• 1913: Cantonization of Miracle (Ecuador).
• 1914: Andrew Fisher takes office as Australia's prime minister for the third and last time.
• 1923: the foundation of Luis Ángel Firpo, the Salvadoran football club of Usulután.
• 1939: the Soviets invade East Poland.
• 1943: the Russian city of Briansk is liberated from the Nazis by the Soviet armies.
• 1944: As part of World War II, airborne troops from the Allies invade the Netherlands as part of Operation Market Garden.
• 1958: in the U3h Area of the Nevada Test Site (about 100 km northwest of the city of Las Vegas), at 11:30 (local time), the United States detonates its atomic bomb to 150 m underground Bernalillo, of 0.015 kt.
• 1964: Mexico inaugurated the National Museum of Anthropology.
• 1968: 468 m underground, in the U2cms Area of the Nevada atomic testing site, at 6:00 (local time), the United States detonates its 31 kt Stoddard atomic bomb. It's the bomb number 577 of 1129 that the United States detonated between 1945 and 1992.
• 1978: In the United States, Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menahem Begin signed the Camp David agreements.
• 1980: in Asunción (Paraguay), a command composed of Argentine fighters assaults former Nicaraguan addict Anastasio Somoza Debayle (54), who had found asylum under the Government of Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner.
• 1988: the Olympic Games of Seoul (South Korea) are opened, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad.
• 1991: The United Nations General Assembly supports North Korea, South Korea, Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as members of the United Nations.
• 1991: In the United States, the hard rock band Guns N' Roses publishes the twin or double albums, Use Your Illusion I and II; in them appear songs as Don't Cry, November Rain and Estranged.
• 1991: The first version (0.01) of the Linux kernel is published on the Internet.
• 2007: the European Union wins the demand for monopoly against Microsoft.
• 2008: The closing ceremony of the 13th Paralympic Games is held in Beijing, China.
• 2008: The International Astronomical Union (IAU) is in favour of the proposal of the United States research team and in honor of a Hawaiian deity announces the name of Haumea for the fifth dwarf planet of the Solar System.
• 2008: Google launches the Spanish version of Knol.
• 2011: The Occupy Wall Street movement begins at Zuccotti Park in New York City.
• 2012: Esperanza Aguirre resigns in Madrid from the Assembly he presides and from his seat in it.
• 2012: the Teatro Empire of Valparaíso, a heritage building of the early twentieth century located in the Chilean port, burns down and completely loses its infrastructure to the surface of its facade.
• 2013: Rockstar Games launches the Grand Theft Auto V video game for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360.

Births

• 879: Charles III of France, French king (f. 929).
• 1192: Minamoto no Sanetomo, shōgun of the Kamakura Shogunate (f. 1219).
• 1552: Paulo V, Italian potato between 1605 and 1621 (f. 1621).
• 1584: Francisco Correa de Arauxo, Spanish composer (f. 1654).
• 1711: Ignaz Holzbauer, Austrian composer (f. 1783).
• 1730: Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, an American military born in Prussia (f. 1794).
• 1743: Nicolas de Condorcet, philosopher, mathematician, and French polythologist (f. 1794).
• 1763: Francisco das Chagas Santos, Brazilian military and political, destroyer of Jesuit missions (f. 1840).
• 1803: Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger, German ornithologist (f. 1863).
• 1820: Tomás Mejía, Mexican military (f. 1867).
• 1826: Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (f. 1866).
• 1838: Valeriano Weyler, a Spanish military and politician (f. 1930).
• 1850: Abilio Manuel Guerra Junqueiro, Portuguese poet (f. 1923).
• 1857: Konstantin Tsiolkovski, Russian physicist (f. 1935).
• 1869: Christian Lange, Norwegian historian and pacifist, the Nobel Peace Prize in 1921 (f. 1938).
• 1884: Charles Tomlinson Griffes, American composer (f. 1920).
• 1892: Hendrik Franciscus Willen, organist, pianist and Dutch composer (f. 1981).
• 1895: Daughter of Denmark, Danish aristocrat (f. 1992)
• 1903: George Koltanowsky, Belgian chess player (f. 2000).
• 1904: Edgar G. Ulmer, American filmmaker (f. 1972).
• 1904: Frederick Ashton, Ecuadorian dancer and choreographer (f. 1988).
• 1913: Look Lobe, Austrian writer (f. 1995).
• 1915: Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez, a Mexican philosopher and writer (f. 2011).
• 1915: Antonio Gutiérrez Mata, Spanish doctor (f. 1983).
• 1918: Chaim Herzog, Israeli President (f. 1997).
• 1919: Vincenzo Torriani, Italian sports director (f. 1996).
• 1921: Virgilio Barco Vargas, Colombian president between 1986 and 1990 (f. 1997).
• 1922: Agostinho Neto, Angolan politician, president of Angola between 1975 and 1979 (f. 1979).
• 1923: Hank Williams, American country singer (f. 1953).
• 1926: Héctor Gros Espiell, Uruguayan politician (f. 2009).
• 1927: Hélène Langevin-Joliot, French nuclear physics.
• 1928: Roddy McDowall, British actor (f. 1998).
• 1928: Alberto González, Cuban humorist (f. 2012).
• 1929: Stirling Moss, British motor racing pilot (f. 2020).
• 1929: Eliseo Prado, Argentine footballer (f. 2016).
• 1930: David Huddleston, American actor (f. 2016).
• 1930: Enrique Alejandro Mancini, Argentine journalist (f. 2008).
• 1930: Thomas P. Stafford, American astronaut of the Apollo program.
• 1931: Anne Bancroft, American actress (f. 2005).
• 1933: Arsenio Corsellas, a Spanish actor (f. 2019).
• 1934: Maureen Connolly, American tennis player (f. 1969).
• 1934: Francisco López Contreras, footballer and Guatemalan coach.

Serge Klarsfeld.

• 1935: Serge Klarsfeld, writer, historian and French lawyer.
• 1935: Ken Kesey, American writer (f. 2001).
• 1935: Melcochita, actor, comedian and Peruvian singer.
• 1936: Rolv Wesenlund, Norwegian actor (f. 2013).
• 1939: David Souter, American judge.
• 1942: Lupe Ontiveros, American actress (f. 2012).
• 1944: Reinhold Messner, Italian alpineist.
• 1944: Michel Cullin, French diplomat (f. 2020).
• 1945: Phil Jackson, American basketball coach.
• 1945: Bruce Spence, New Zealand actor.
• 1946: Billy Bonds, footballer and English coach.
• 1947: Antônio Cançado, Brazilian lawyer and jurist (f. 2022).
• 1948: Didith Reyes, Filipino singer (f. 2008).
• 1948: John Ritter, American actor (f. 2003).
• 1949: Chela Arias, Colombian actress.
• 1949: Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, director of orchestra and Spanish composer.
• 1949: Karl-Heinz Werner, German yoke.
• 1950: Soledad Alvear, Chilean politics.
• 1950: Narendra Modi, Indian Prime Minister.
• 1950: Hassan Nayebagha, Iranian footballer.
• 1951: Mariano Cívico singer and Puerto Rican musician (f. 2013).
• 1951: Cassandra Peterson, American actress.
• 1952: El Niño de la Capea (Pedro Gutiérrez Moya), Spanish bullfighter.
• 1955: Charles Martinet, American voice actor.
• 1955: Mahboub Juma'a, Kuwaiti footballer.
• 1956: Almazbek Atambayev, Kyrgyz president.
• 1958: Nancho Novo, Spanish actor.
• 1959: Gerson Victalino, Brazilian basketball player (f. 2020).
• 1960: Alan B. Krueger, American economist (f. 2019).
• 1960: Damon Hill, British Formula 1 pilot.
• 1961: Ty Tabor, American musician, of the band King's X.
• 1961: Kevin Crow, American footballer.
• 1962: Baz Luhrmann, Australian filmmaker.
• 1962: Paul Feig, American filmmaker
• 1963: Rami Saari, Israeli poet.
• 1963: Yuji Keigoshi, Japanese footballer.
• 1963: Benito Sánchez, Spanish footballer.
• 1963: Olga Burova, Russian athlete.
• 1963: Ana Luisa Cid Fernández, Mexican ufologist.
• 1963: Lola Robles, Spanish writer.
• 1963: Benito Cabrera, Spanish musician.
• 1963: Jeff Ballard, American drummer.
• 1964: Ursula Karven, German model and actress.
• 1965: Bryan Singer, American filmmaker.
• 1965: Yūji Naka, programmer of the original game Sonic the Hedgehog.
• 1965: Painting, soccer player and Brazilian coach.
• 1966: Doug E. Fresh, rapper, producer and American beatboxer.
• 1966: Stéphane Rousseau, actor and Canadian comedian.

Anastacia

• 1966: Marisol Membrillo, Spanish actress.
• 1967: María Fernanda García, Mexican actress.
• 1967: Koen Wauters, Belgian singer.
• 1967: Juan Pablo Colmenarejo, Spanish journalist (f. 2022).
• 1968: Anastacia, American singer and composer.
• 1968: Marie Chantal of Greece, Danish princess.
• 1968: Paul Tracy, a Canadian motor racing pilot.
• 1968: Karsten Just, German athlete.

Claudio Ubeda

• 1968: Predrag Stanković, Serbian footballer.
• 1968: Tito Vilanova, retired football player and Spanish coach (f. 2014).
• 1969: Claudio Úbeda, retired footballer and Argentine coach.
• 1969: Keith Flint, British vocalist, of the band The Prodigy (f. 2019).
• 1970: Jaume García, Spanish footballer.
• 1971: Adriana Karembeu, Slovak model.
• 1971: Jens Voigt, German cyclist.
• 1971: Sergej Barbarez, Bosnian footballer.
• 1971: Annika Duckmark, Swedish television presenter and model.
• 1971: Adrian de la Garza Santos, Mexican politician.
• 1971: Bobby Lee, American actor and comedian.
• 1972: Llewellyn Riley, a barbarist.
• 1973: Demis Nikolaidis, Greek footballer.
• 1973: Petter Rudi, Norwegian footballer.
• 1973: Diego Albanese, Argentinian rugby player.
• 1973: Bernardo Duque, locutor, double actor, television presenter and Colombian arranger (f. 2013).
• 1974: Darío Rodríguez, Uruguayan footballer
• 1974: Austin St. John, American actor.
• 1974: Rasheed Wallace, American basketball player.

Alvaro Fuentes

• 1974: Andre Luiz de Souza Silva, Brazilian footballer.
• 1974: Stacy Kamano, American actress.
• 1975: Alvaro Fuentes, Spanish musician of the band La Oreja de Van Gogh.
• 1975: Jimmie Johnson, American stock car pilot.
• 1975: Vicente Fernández Pujante, Spanish footballer.
• 1975: Alexa von Schwichow, German york.
• 1976: Raúl López González, Spanish footballer.
• 1977: Juan Antonio Flecha, Spanish cyclist.
• 1977: Denis Kang, French mixed martial arts wrestler.
• 1977: Francisco Pancho Maciel, Argentine soccer player.
• 1977: Simone Perrotta, Italian footballer.
• 1978: Cristina Alcázar, Spanish actress.
• 1978: Pablo Casar, Spanish footballer.
• 1978: Arne Slot, Dutch footballer.
• 1979: Chuck Comeau, Canadian band musician Simple Plan.
• 1979: Neill Blomkamp, South African-Canadian filmmaker
• 1979: Ingrid Martz, Mexican actress and model.
• 1979: Robby Navarro, Filipino singer.
• 1979: Carlinhos Bala, Brazilian footballer.
• 1981: Julio Alcorsé, Argentine footballer.
• 1981: Bakari Koné, Ivorian footballer.
• 1982: Neto Baiano, Brazilian footballer.
• 1982: Regina Deutinger, German model.
• 1983: Knox Cameron, American footballer.
• 1983: Jennifer Peña, American singer.
• 1983: Sanaya Irani, Indian actress and model.
• 1983: Christian Yeladian, Uruguayan footballer.
• 1984: De la Ghetto, Puerto Rican singer.
• 1984: Michel Fabrizio, Italian bike rider.
• 1985: Tupouto'a 'Ulukala, aristocrat of Tonga.
• 1985: Jon Walker, American bassist of the Panic band! at the Disco.
• 1985: Garidmagnai Bayasgalan, Mongolian footballer.
• 1985: Tomáš Hayčan, Slovak footballer.
• 1985: Masahiko Ichikawa, Japanese footballer.
• 1985: Rodolfo Massi, Italian cyclist.
• 1986: Paolo De Ceglie, Italian footballer.
• 1986: Fiona O'Sullivan, Irish-American footballer.
• 1986: Filip Lončarić, Croatian footballer.
• 1986: Kristina Sundov, Croatian footballer.
• 1986: Antón Alijánov, Russian politician, sixth Governor of the Kaliningrad Council
• 1986: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, voice actor and Japanese singer.
• 1987: Felicia Provost, American model.
• 1987: Lionel Brown, American footballer.
• 1987: Paul Huntington, English footballer.
• 1987: Henk Norel, Dutch basketball player.
• 1987: Christina Jones, American swimmer.
• 1988: Stephen Sunday, Nigerian footballer.
• 1988: Pavel Mamayev, Russian footballer.
• 1988: Thiago Heleno, Brazilian footballer.
• 1988: Rafael Vaz, Brazilian footballer.
• 1988: Michael Fitzgerald, Japanese-Dutch footballer.
• 1989: Dijon Talton, American actor, singer and dancer.
• 1990: Harmony Ikande, Nigerian footballer.
• 1990: Renae Ayris, Australian model.
• 1990: Tim Myers, New Zealand footballer.
• 1990: Kamil Gradek, Polish cyclist.
• 1990: Theo Reinhardt, German cyclist.
• 1990: Carles Salvador Vidal, Spanish footballer.
• 1991: Mena Massoud, Canadian actor.
• 1991: Uche Nwofor, Nigerian footballer.
• 1991: Lieke Wevers, a Dutch art gymnast.
• 1991: Minako Kotobuki, seiyū and Japanese singer.
• 1992: Kemar Lawrence, Jamaican footballer.
• 1992: Philip Doyle, Irish plumber.
• 1993: Joe Bryan, English footballer.
• 1993: Amr Warda, Egyptian footballer.
• 1993: Carlos García, Spanish footballer.
• 1993: Sofiane Boufal, Franco-Marroquí footballer.
• 1994: Denyse Tontz, American actress and singer.
• 1995: Patrick Mahomes II, American football player.
• 1995: Marija Banušić, Swedish footballer.
• 1995: YooA, South Korean singer and member of the group Oh My Girl.
• 1995: Aruna Dzhangueldina, yudoca kazaja.
• 1996: Duje Ćaleta-Car, Croatian footballer.
• 1996: Masato Kojima, Japanese footballer.
• 1996: Esteban Ocon, a French motorist pilot.
• 1997: Chavany Willis, Jamaican footballer.
• 1997: Derrick Alston Jr., American basketball player.
• 1998: Julio Villalba, Paraguayan footballer.
• 1999: Daiju Sasaki, Japanese footballer.
• 1999: Julia van Bergen, a Dutch singer.
• 1999: Gleofilo Vlijter, Surinamese footballer.
• 1999: Giorgos Nikas, Greek footballer.
• 1999: Damian Żurek, Polish speed skater.
• 1999: Khalimatus Sadiyah, Indonesian bádminton player.
• 2000: Brayan Palmezano, Venezuelan footballer.
• 2000: Victor Eriksson, Swedish footballer.
• 2002: Zena, Belarusian singer.
• 2006: She Jay Basco, American actress.

Deaths

• 1179: Hildegard of Bingen, Abbey, German composer and writer (n.1098).
• 1485: Pedro Arbués, a Spanish priest (n. 1441).
• 1665: Philip IV, King of Spain (n. 1605).
• 1679: Juan José de Austria, Spanish politician and military (n. 1629).
• 1791: Tomás de Iriarte, a Spanish poet (n. 1750).
• 1823: Abraham Louis Breguet, physicist, watchmaker and Swiss businessman (n. 1747).
• 1836: Antoine Laurent de Jussieu, a French physician and botanist (n. 1748).
• 1852: Francisco Javier Echeverría, Mexican politician (n. 1797).
• 1853: Laureano Pineda, a Nicaraguan politician, Supreme Director of the State of Nicaragua on two occasions (n. 1802).
• 1863: Alfred de Vigny, poet, playwright, and French novelist (n. 1797).
• 1863: Carlos de Chacón and Michelena, captain of Spanish ships and first governor of Fernando Poo (n. 1816).
• 1865: Luis de Usoz, hebraist and Spanish scholar (n. 1805).
• 1877: William Fox Talbot, inventor and British photographer (n. 1800).
• 1879: Eugène Viollet-le-Duc, French architect (n. 1814).
• 1892: Rudolf von Ihering, a German jurist and philosopher (n. 1818).
• 1894: José Manuel Estrada, speaker, journalist and Argentine historian (n. 1842).
• 1901: Juan Esteban Rodríguez Segura, Chilean politician (n. 1818).
• 1924: Luis Tejada Cano, was a Colombian journalist and chronicler (n. 1898).
• 1942: Alfonso Luis Herrera, Mexican biologist (n. 1868).
• 1942: Klavdia Necháieva, Soviet military aircraft (n. 1916)
• 1948: Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat (n. 1895).
• 1951: Jimmy Yancey, pianist and American blues composer (n. 1898).
• 1963: Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and psychologist (n. 1882).
• 1965: Alejandro Casona, Spanish playwright (n. 1903).
• 1966: Fritz Wunderlich, German tenor (n. 1930).
• 1968: Jaime Eyzaguirre, Chilean historian (n. 1908).
• 1972: Rafael Bernal, Mexican diplomat and writer (n. 1915).
• 1972: Akim Tamiroff, Soviet actor (n. 1899).
• 1973: Eugenio Garza Sada, Mexican businessman (n. 1892).
• 1979: Miloslav Kabeláč, Czech composer (n. 1908).
• 1980: Anastasio Somoza Debayle, a Nicaraguan military and dictator (n. 1925).
• 1984: Richard Basehart, American actor (n. 1914).
• 1986: Pat Phoenix, British actress (n. 1923).
• 1991: Rob Tyner, American singer and musician, of the MC5 band (n. 1944).
• 1994: Karl Popper, British philosopher (n. 1902).
• 1996: Spiro Agnew, U.S. Vice President (n. 1918).
• 1996: Teodoro "Lolo" Fernández, a Peruvian footballer (n. 1913).
• 1996: Felipe Herrera, Chilean economist and politician (n. 1922).
• 1997: Red Skelton, American actor and comic (n. 1913).
• 1998: Ralph Pappier, an Argentine filmmaker of Chinese origin (n. 1914).
• 2001: Rodrigo Uría González, Spanish lawyer, Prince of Asturias Award 1990 (n. 1906).
• 2005: Alfred Reed, American composer (n. 1921).
• 2007: Miguel Ramón Izquierdo, Spanish politician (n. 1919).
• 2009: Noordin Mohammad Top, Malaysian terrorist (n. 1968)
• 2010: Laura Daners, journalist, television presenter and Uruguayan swimmer (n. 1967).
• 2010: Patrick Aduma, Nigerian-Argentine actor (n. 1966).
• 2011: Ignacio Fernández de Castro, a Spanish sociologist and lawyer (n. 1919).
• 2011: Kurt Sanderling, director of German orchestra and musician (n. 1912).
• 2011: Moses Villanueva de la Luz, Mexican politician (n. 1964).

China Zorrilla

• 2011: Rodolfo Gajardo, Chilean professor and ecologist (n. 1947).
• 2012: Sylvia Bermann, psychiatrist, professor and Argentinean midwife (n. 1922).
• 2014: China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress (n. 1922).
• 2015: Pablo Rieznik, politician and professor of Argentine university (n. 1949).
• 2016: Bahman Golbarnezhad, Iranian paracyclist (n. 1968).
• 2016: Charmian Carr, American actress (n. 1942).
• 2017: Carlos Íñigo, Mexican bent actor (n. 1960).
• 2017: René Drucker Colín, Mexican scientist (n. 1937).
• 2018: Celia Barquín, Spanish golfer (n. 1996).
• 2020: Carlos Villamizar, Venezuelan actor (n.1935)
• 2020: Luboš Perek, Czech astronomer (n. 1919).
• 2020: Ricardo Ciciliano, Colombian footballer (n. 1976).
• 2020: Winston Groom, American writer and historian (n. 1943).
• 2021: Abdelaziz Buteflika, Algerian military and political, president of Algeria from 1999 to 2019 (n. 1937).
• 2021: Alfonso Sastre, writer, playwright, essayist and Spanish film writer (n. 1926).
• 2021: Alfred Miodowicz, Polish politician and trade unionist (n. 1929).
• 2021: Carlos Gianelli, diplomat, politician and Uruguayan lawyer (n. 1948).
• 2021: King Vasquez, Colombian actor (n. 1938).

Celebrations

• World Patient Safety Day
• World Day of Psychopedagogue
• World Kleefstra Syndrome Day
• AngolaAngola:
  • Heroes Day
• Argentina:
  • Teacher's Day
  • Day of Psychopedagogue
• Australia:
  • Australian Citizenship Day
• ChileChile:
  • Huaso and Chilean Day
• United States:
  • Constitutional Day
• HondurasHonduras:
  • Master's Day

Catholic saints list

• San Roberto Belarminobishop and doctor of the Church (1621)
• San Sátiro de Milan (377)
• San Lamberto de MaastrichtBishop and martyr (705)
• San Rodingo de Argonaabad (s. VIII)
• Santa Columba de Córdoba, virgin and martyr (853)
• San Reinaldo de Mélinais (1104)
• Santa Hildegarda de Bingenvirgin (1179)
• Beato Querubín Testa, priest (1479)
• San Pedro Arbués, priest and martyr (1485)
• San Manuel Nguyen Van Trieu, priest and martyr (1798)
• San Francisco María de Camporosso (1866)
• Blessed Segismund Felix FelinskiBishop (1895)
• Blessed Juan Ventura Solsona and Timotheo Valero Pérez, priests and martyrs (1936)
• Blessed Segismundo Sajna, priest and martyr (1940)