17 September

The **17t o September** is the 260t day o the year (261t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 105 days bidin.

## Events

* 1577 - The Treaty o Bergerac is signed atween Henry III o Fraunce an the Huguenots.
* 1630 - Boston, Massachusetts is foondit.
* 1787 - The Unitit States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
* 1789 - William Herschel discovers Mimas, a Muin o Saturn.
* 1928 - The Okeechobee Hurricane in Florida kills o'er 2,500 fowk.
* 1939 - Warld War II: The Soviet Union invades Eastren Poland.
* 1957 - Malaysie jyns the Unitit Naitions.
* 1974 - Bangladesh, Grenada an Guinea-Bissau jyn the Unitit Naitions.
* 1978 - The Camp David Accord is signed bi Menachem Begin an Anwar Sadat, hosted bi US Preses Jimmy Carter.
* 1988 - The 1988 Simmer Olympics in Seoul, Sooth Korea, begin.
* 1991 - Estonie, Latvie, Lithuanie, North Korea, Sooth Korea, the Marshall Islands an the Federatit States o Micronesie jyn the Unitit Naitions.
* 2001 - Tradin re-stairts efter the September 11 attacks.
* 2004 - The Simmer Paralympic Gemmes in Athens begin. 
* 2006 - Fredrik Reinfeldt is electit Prime meenister o Swaden. 
* 2011 - The Occupy Wall Street muivement stairts in New York Ceety.
* 2019 - Twa bomb attacks in Afghanistan kill a total o 50 fowk.
* 2019 - Israel haulds its seicont Knesset election in less nor sax month, wi an inconclusive result.

## Births

* 879 - Charles the Simple, King o Wast Francie (d. 929)
* 1552 - Pape Paul V (d. 1621)
* 1743 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathemateecian (d. 1794)
* 1755 - William Cathcart, 1st Yerl Cathcart, Scots sodger an diplomat (d. 1843)
* 1826 - Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann, German mathemateecian (d. 1866)
* 1854 - David Dunbar Buick, Scots-American inventor (d. 1929)
* 1857 - Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, Roushie rocket scientist (d. 1935)
* 1895 - Princess Margrethe o Denmark (d. 1992)
* 1922 - Agostinho Neto, 1st Preses o Angolae (d. 1979)
* 1923 - Hank Williams, American sangster (d. 1953)
* 1929 - Stirling Moss, Inglis racin driver
* 1931 - Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005)
* 1935 - Ken Kesey, American writer (d. 2001)
* 1944 - Reinhold Messner, Italian muntaneer
* 1950 - Narendra Modi, Prime meenister o Indie
* 1956 - Almazbek Atambayev, umwhile Preses o Kyrgyzstan
* 1958 - Janez Jansa, Slovenian politeecian
* 1960 - Damon Hill, Inglis racin driver
* 1962 - Baz Luhrmann, Australie actor an film director
* 1968 - Anastacia, American sangster
* 1968 - Tito Vilanova, Spainyie fitbawer an manager (d. 2014)
* 1977 - Simone Perrotta, Italian fitbawer
* 1985 - Tomas Berdych, Czech tennis player
* 1993 - Sophie Howard, German-Scots fitbawer

## Daiths
* 1179 - Hildegard von Bingen, German abbess an componer (b. 1098)
* 1665 - Philip IV o Spain (b. 1605)
* 1771 - Tobias Smollett, Scots poet an author (b. 1721)
* 1869 - John Elder, Scots marine ingineer an shipbigger (b. 1824)
* 1948 - Folke Bernadotte, Swadish diplomat (b. 1895)
* 1994 - Karl Popper, Austrick philosopher (b. 1902)
* 1996 - Spiro Agnew, Vice Preses o the Unitit States (b. 1918)
* 2002 - James Macdonald, Scots-Australie ornithologist (b. 1908)

## Halidays
* Constitution Day (Unitit States)
* Heroes' Day (Angolae)