17th September anniversaries

• Birth
  • 1928
  • Great Britain
  • "Birth of Roddy McDowall, British actor ."
  • 1934
  • "Birth of Maureen (Little Mo) Connolly, American tennis player, the first woman to win the Grand Slam"
  • 1883
  • "Birth of William Carlos Williams, American doctor and Pulitzer Prize winning writer, poet and playwright."
• event
  • 1928
  • "The Okeechobee hurricane hit south-eastern Florida, killing over 2,500 people."
  • 1931
  • "RCA-Victor demonstrated the first long-playing record, known as a Program Transcription (PT)"
  • 1939
  • The Soviet Union invaded Poland
  • 1944
  • Operation Market Garden - Allied invasion of Holland
  • 1983
  • Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America .
  • 1996
  • United States
  • "The civil trial of O J Simpson opened in Santa Monica, USA. He had been found not guilty of murdering his wife and her friend in a criminal trial the previous year"
  • 1533
  • Great Britain
  • Anne Boleyn gives birth to a daughter Elizabeth. more
  • 1809
  • "The Finnish War ended when Sweden and Russia signed the Treaty of Fredrikshamn, which ceded Finland to Russia"
  • 1908
  • United States
  • "The first aircraft fatality occurred at Fort Myer, Virginia when a propeller came loose on a plane piloted by Orville Wright. Lt Thomas Selfridge, a passenger, died of a fractured skull." more
• Death
  • 1948
  • "Death of Count Folke Bernadotte, Swedish diplomat, assassinated ."
  • 1997
  • "Death of Red Skelton (Richard Bernard Skelton), American comedian"
  • 454
  • Egypt
  • "Death of Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria, 25th Pope of the Coptic Church." more
  • 1179
  • Germany
  • "Death of St. Hildegard of Bingen, German composer." more
  • 1574
  • Spain
  • "Death of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, Spanish explorer who founded the city of St Augustine, Florida." more
  • 1771
  • Great Britain
  • "Death of Tobias Smollett, Scottish writer." more