September 17

Saturday 17, 2005:

The B.C. Lions make CFL history by winning 11 straight games, become the first team ever to do so in the CFL.

Friday 17, 2004:

Barry Bonds becomes only the third Major League Baseball player to hit 700 or more home runs.

Monday 17, 2001:

The Dow Jones Industrial Average opens for the first time after the September 11 attacks. The stocks plummet throughout the trading session and posts its biggest point drop in its history closing down 684.81 points to 8920.70.

Tuesday 17, 1991:

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

Saturday 17, 1988:

Opening ceremony of the Games of the XXIV Olympiad in Seoul, South Korea.

Monday 17, 1984:

Baseball: Reggie Jackson becomes the 13th member of the 500 home run club with a home run at Anaheim Stadium in Anaheim, California.

Saturday 17, 1983:

Vanessa Williams becomes first African American Miss America.

Sunday 17, 1978:

The Camp David Accords were signed by Israel and Egypt.

Friday 17, 1976:

The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, was unveiled by NASA

Sunday 17, 1967:

Jim Morrison and The Doors defy CBS censors on The Ed Sullivan Show. Morrison sang the lyrics, "Girl, we couldn't get much higher" from the song, Light My Fire when asked not to.

Sunday 17, 1961:

The Minnesota Vikings play their first NFL game, defeating the Chicago Bears 37-13, with Fran Tarkenton throwing 4 touchdowns and running for 1 touchdown.

Monday 17, 1951:

Robert A. Lovett was sworn in as the 4th Secretary of Defense of United States.

Saturday 17, 1949:

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

Friday 17, 1948:

Lehi (also know as the Stern gang) assassinates Count Folke Bernadotte, who was appointed by the UN to mediate between the Arabs and Jews.

Wednesday 17, 1947:

James V. Forrestal was sworn in as the first Secretary of Defense of United States.

Sunday 17, 1944:

Airborne troops from Canada, Great Britain, and the United States parachute into Arnhem, as a part of Operation Market Garden.

Friday 17, 1943:

Russian city of Bryansk liberated from Nazis.

Sunday 17, 1939:

The Soviet Union joined Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland during the Polish Defence War of 1939.

Wednesday 17, 1924:

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

Friday 17, 1920:

National Football League is organized in Canton, Ohio, United States.

Thursday 17, 1914:

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

Thursday 17, 1908:

Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge crashes a Wright Brothers airplane and becomes the first airplane fatality.

Monday 17, 1900:

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

Monday 17, 1894:

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

Wednesday 17, 1862:

American Civil War: George McClellan halts the northward drive of Robert E. Lee's Confederate army in the Battle of Antietam.

Saturday 17, 1859:

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

Sunday 17, 1809:

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

Monday 17, 1787:

The United States Constitution is adopted by the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.

Tuesday 17, 1776:

The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain.

Tuesday 17, 1630:

The city of Boston, Massachusetts, is founded.

Saturday 17, 1577:

Peace of Bergerac signed between Henry III of France and the Huguenots.

Wednesday 17, 1462:

The Battle of ?wiecino (or Battle of ?arnowiec) is fought during Thirteen Years' War

Wednesday 17, 1394:

King Charles VI of France orders all Jews expelled from France.

Friday 17, 1176:

The Battle of Myriokephalon is fought.

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