Browse events, births, deaths and holidays on September 17 throughout history.
The Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement (SMDA) is a security and defence pact between the countries of Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Under this agreement both countries have committed…
Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement.
On 17 September 2018, the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted missile strikes against multiple targets in government-controlled western Syria. Syrian air defences responded to the I…
A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over…
On September 17–19, 2016, a series of three constructed bombs exploded, and several unexploded devices were discovered in the New York metropolitan area followed by a subsequent s…
Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.
Grand Theft Auto V is a 2013 action-adventure game developed by Rockstar North and published by Rockstar Games. It is the seventh main entry in the Grand Theft Auto series, follow…
Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.
Occupy Wall Street (O.W.S.) was a left-wing populist and progressive movement against economic inequality, capitalism, corporate greed, big finance, and the influence of money in …
Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
Fourpeaked Mountain, also known as Fourpeaked Volcano, is an active stratovolcano located in the U.S. state of Alaska within Katmai National Park and Preserve. The volcano is near…
Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.
The Őszöd speech was a speech Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány delivered to the 2006 Hungarian Socialist Party (MSZP) congress in Balatonőszöd. Though the May congress wa…
An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he…
The New York Stock Exchange is an American stock exchange headquartered at the New York Stock Exchange Building in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It i…
The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great…
George Walker Bush is an American former politician, businessman, and former United States Air Force officer who served as the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 200…
George W. Bush, president of the United States, delivers remarks at the Islamic Center of Washington praising Muslim…
In the Mykonos restaurant assassinations, Iranian-Kurdish opposition leaders Sadegh Sharafkandi, Fattah Abdoli, Homayoun Ardalan and their translator Nouri Dehkordi, were assassin…
An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin.
Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in the Baltic region of Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the w…
Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.
Linux is a family of free and open-source software Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, which was first released on 17 September 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Some mem…
The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American singer, actress, model, producer and dancer. She gained recognition as the first black woman to win the Miss America title when she was crowne…
Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.
The Gdańsk Shipyard is a large Polish shipyard, located in the city of Gdańsk, northern Poland. The yard gained international fame when Polish trade union Solidarity was founded t…
After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is…
Anastasio "Tachito" Somoza Debayle was a Nicaraguan politician, military officer, hydraulic engineer, and dictator who served as the 53rd President of Nicaragua from 1967 to 1972 …
Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.
The Camp David Accords were a pair of political agreements signed by Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin on 17 September 1978, following twelv…
The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.
Space Shuttle Enterprise is the first orbiter of the Space Shuttle system. Rolled out on September 17, 1976, it was built for NASA as part of the Space Shuttle program to perform …
The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.
Bangladesh, officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh, is a country in South Asia. It is the eighth-most populous country in the world with a population of almost 177.8 milli…
Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.
The Battle of Chawinda was a major engagement between Pakistan and India during the Indo-Pakistani war of 1965 as part of the Sialkot campaign. It is well known as being one of th…
The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.
The Civic Arena, formerly the Civic Auditorium and later Mellon Arena, was a multi-purpose arena located in Downtown Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It primarily served as the home to t…
The world's first retractable roof stadium, the Civic Arena, opens in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.