Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 17

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This is a list of selected September 17 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.

Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article or picture of the day.

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U.S. Constitution
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat with US President Jimmy Carter at Camp David in 1978
At the signing of the Camp David Accords
Folke Bernadotte
Space Shuttle Enterprise
Lt. Thomas Selfridge
Paratroopers landing in Holland as part of Operation Market Garden
Emperor Norton
Harriet Tubman
The Next Nine
Smoke rising above Amman during Black September

Ineligible

Blurb	Reason
1716 – French soldier Jean Thurel enlisted in the Régiment de Touraine at the age of 18, beginning a career of military service that would span 75 years.	French WP states the birth date may be a fraud
1787 – The text of the United States Constitution was finalized at the Philadelphia Convention.	Large % unsourced
1809 – The Treaty of Fredrikshamn concluded the Finnish War between Russia and Sweden, with present-day Finland becoming an autonomous Grand Duchy under Tsar Alexander I.	needs more footnotes
1894 – The Imperial Japanese Navy defeated the Beiyang Fleet of Qing China in the Battle of the Yalu River at the mouth of the Yalu River in Korea Bay, the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War.	refimprove section
1914 – World War I: The Franco-British and German armies began the Race to the Sea, reciprocal attempts to envelop each other's northern flanks through France and Belgium.	Footnote (a) of article implies this may not be a definitive date
1916 – World War I: "The Red Baron", a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.	Featured on April 21
1930 – The Turkish government suppressed the Ararat rebellion, an uprising amongst the Kurdish inhabitants of the province of Ağrı.	refimprove section
1944 – Second World War: The Allies began Operation Market Garden, the largest airborne operation up to that time.	refimprove sections
1948 – Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte was assassinated by the militant Zionist group Lehi.	unreferenced section
1978 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed the Camp David Accords after twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.	refimprove section
1992 – Three Kurds#Kurds in Iran opposition leaders were assassinated at a Greek restaurant in Berlin.	Stubby, high % of uncited statements not cited or in source, reverted by article owner
2006 – Mass protests across Hungary erupted after Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány's private speech was leaked to the public, in which he admitted that the Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election.	refimprove
Hildegard of Bingen \|d\|1179	external links
Hook Nose \|d\|1868	lead too long
Lupe Ontiveros \|b\|1942\|	Multiple uncited paragraphs

Eligible

1176 – Byzantine–Seljuk wars: At the Battle of Myriokephalon in Phrygia, the Seljuq Turks prevented Byzantine forces from taking the interior of Anatolia.
1630 – Puritan settlers from England founded the city of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, naming it after Boston, Lincolnshire, the origin of several prominent colonists.
1658 – Portuguese Restoration War: Having crossed the Minho and entered Portuguese territory, a Spanish army was victorious in the Battle of Vilanova.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army under Richard Montgomery began the Siege of Fort St. Jean in the British province of Quebec.
1793 – War of the Pyrenees: Forces from the French Army of the Eastern Pyrenees defeated two divisions of the Army of Catalonia, ending the furthest Spanish encroachment in their invasion of Roussillon.
1849 – Harriet Tubman (pictured) escaped from slavery in the U.S. state of Maryland, and later orchestrated the rescues of other slaves via the Underground Railroad.
1862 – American Civil War: Almost 23,000 total casualties were suffered at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where Confederate and Union troops fought to a tactical stalemate.
1878 – A British surveyor was detained by the Zulu on the border with the Colony of Natal; a demand for reparations for the incident formed part of an ultimatum that led to the Anglo-Zulu War.
1939 – Second World War: The Royal Navy lost its first warship in the war when German submarine U-29 torpedoed and sank HMS Courageous.
1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germany's attack on the country from the west.
1962 – NASA announced the Next Nine astronauts (pictured) selected for the purpose of landing on the moon.
1958 – Tintin in Tibet, the twentieth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and which he regarded as his favourite in the series, began serialisation.
1970 – The Jordanian army entered Amman as part of operations to oust Palestinian fedayeen from the country in events later known as Black September (smoke over city pictured).
1980 – Solidarity, a Polish trade union, was founded as the first independent labor union in an Eastern Bloc country.
2011 – Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, organized a protest against corporate influence on democracy at Zuccotti Park in New York City that became known as Occupy Wall Street.
2018 – The Israeli Air Force conducted missile strikes that hit multiple targets in western Syria, including one that accidentally downed a Russian plane.
Born/died: | Robert Bellarmine |d|1621| Stephen Hales |b|1677| Elizabeth Canning |b|1734| Jonathan Alder |b|1773| Earl Van Dorn |b|1820| Frederick Corbett |b|1853| Vera Yevstafievna Popova |b|1867| Henri Julien |d|1908| David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley |b|1929| Thomas P. Stafford |b|1930| Narendra Modi |b|1950| Mandawuy Yunupingu |b|1956| Red Skelton |d|1997| Eiji Toyoda |d|2013

Notes

Gdańsk Agreement/1982 demonstrations in Poland are featured on August 31, so Solidarity should not appear in the same year
Operation Berlin (Arnhem)/Battle of Arnhem are featured on September 25, so Operation Market Garden should not appear in the same year.

September 17: Mid-Autumn Festival in China (2024); Constitution Day in the United States

Emperor Norton

1382 – Following Louis I's death without a male heir, his daughter Mary was crowned with the title of King of Hungary.
1859 – Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the United States, Joshua Norton (pictured) distributed letters to various newspapers in San Francisco proclaiming himself to be Emperor Norton.
1894 – John Hyrum Koyle, a controversial Mormon bishop, began excavating the Dream Mine, which he believed would provide financial support to members of the LDS Church.
1914 – Andrew Fisher, who in his previous term as premier oversaw a period of reform unmatched in the Commonwealth until the 1940s, became Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.

Li Jingsui (d. 958)
Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (d. 1721)
Periyar (b. 1879)
Hank Williams (b. 1923)

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