September 17

17Sep2009 In : On this day
Author : FJ

Selected anniversaries

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September 17: Constitution Day in the United States.

1176 – Byzantine–Seljuk wars: The Seljuk Turks prevented the Byzantines from taking the interior of Anatolia at the Battle of Myriokephalon in Phrygia.
1787 – The text of the United States Constitution was finalized at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia.
1859 – Disgruntled with the legal and political structures of the United States, Joshua Norton distributed letters to various newspapers in San Francisco, proclaiming himself Emperor Norton.
1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germany‘s attack on that country from the west.
1978 – President Anwar Al Sadat of Egypt and Prime Minister Menachem Begin of Israel (pictured with U.S. President Jimmy Carter) signed the Camp David Accords after twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David.

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September 14

Selected anniversaries [edit] September 14 786 – Harun al-Rashid became the Abbasid caliph upon the death of his brother al-Hadi. 1752 – In adopting the Gregorian calendar under the terms of the Calendar (New Style) Act 1750, the British Empire skipped eleven days (September 2 was followed directly by September 14). 1812 – The French invasion of Russia: Following the Battle of Borodino seven days ...

June 19

June 19: Juneteenth in some parts of the United States 1846 – The first officially recorded baseball game using modern rules was played in Hoboken, New Jersey, US, with the New York Nine defeating the New York Knickerbockers, 23–1. 1850 – Louise of the Netherlands married Crown Prince Karl of Sweden-Norway. 1953 – Americans Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (pictured) were executed as spies ...

September 29

Selected anniversaries [edit] September 29: Michaelmas 1829 – The Metropolitan Police (flag pictured) of Greater London, sometimes also referred to as "Scotland Yard" after the location of its original headquarters, was founded. 1885 – One of the first practical electric tramways in the world, the Blackpool tramway in Blackpool, Lancashire, England, opened. 1938 – At a conference in Munich, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, British Prime ...

September 3

Selected anniversaries [edit] September 3: Ghost Festival in the Chinese calendar (2009); Independence Day in Qatar; Flag Day in Australia; Armed Forces Day in Taiwan 301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus. 590 – Gregory I became pope, the first one to come from a monastic ...

December 8

December 8: Constitution Day in Romania (1991); Feast of the Immaculate Conception in Roman Catholicism 1609 – Milan's Biblioteca Ambrosiana opened its reading room to the public, becoming the second public library in Europe. 1941 – The Holocaust: The Chelmno extermination camp in Poland, the first such Nazi camp to kill the Jews of the Ghetto Litzmannstadt and the Warthegau by poison ...

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