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Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledges AIDS for the first time, beginning at the 7:12 mark.
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Bush at the Islamic Center of Washington
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| 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
- 1382 – Following Louis I's death without a male heir, his daughter Mary was crowned with the title of King of Hungary.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1939 – Second World War: The Royal Navy lost its first warship in the war when German submarine U-29 torpedoed and sank HMS Courageous.
- 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.
- 2001 – American president George W. Bush delivered remarks at the Islamic Center of Washington (pictured) condemning Islamophobia in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.
- 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: Constitution Day in the United States
Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledges AIDS for the first time, beginning at the 7:12 mark.
- 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.
- 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.
- 1985 – Four years after AIDS was first identified in the United States, Ronald Reagan publicly acknowledged AIDS (video featured) for the first time.
- 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.
- Li Jingsui (d. 958)
- Marguerite Louise d'Orléans (d. 1721)
- Periyar (b. 1879)
- Hank Williams (b. 1923)
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