Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
106651September 17Death2013 – Marvin Rainwater, American singer-songwriter (b. 1925)
106652September 17Death2013 – Eiji Toyoda, Japanese businessman (b. 1913)
106653September 17Death2014 – Street Cry, Irish race horse (b. 1998)
106654September 17Death2014 – George Hamilton IV, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1937)
106655September 17Death2014 – Andriy Husin, Ukrainian footballer and manager (b. 1972)
106656September 17Death2014 – Wakachichibu Komei, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1939)
106657September 17Death2014 – Elaine Lee, South African-Australian actress (b. 1939)
106658September 17Death2014 – Charles Read, Australian air marshal (b. 1918)
106659September 17Death2014 – Peter von Bagh, Finnish historian, director, and screenwriter (b. 1943)
106660September 17Death2014 – China Zorrilla, Uruguayan actress, director, and producer (b. 1922)
106661September 17Death2015 – Ingrīda Andriņa, Latvian actress (b. 1944)
106662September 17Death2015 – Dettmar Cramer, German footballer and manager (b. 1925)
106663September 17Death2015 – Milo Hamilton, American sportscaster (b. 1927)
106664September 17Death2015 – Vadim Kuzmin, Russian physicist and academic (b. 1937)
106665September 17Death2015 – David Willcocks, English organist, composer, and conductor (b. 1919)
106666September 17Holiday and observanceChristian feast day:Albert AvogadroAriadne of PhrygiaBlessed Cecilia EusepiBlessed Stanislaus PapczyńskiHildegard of BingenLambertRobert BellarmineSatyrus of MilanSocrates and StephenZygmunt Szczęsny FelińskiSeptember 17 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
106667September 17Holiday and observanceAustralian Citizenship Day
106668September 17Holiday and observanceConstitution Day (United States) (observed on the previous Friday if it falls on a Saturday, the following Monday if on a Sunday)
106669September 17Holiday and observanceHeroes' Day (Angola)
106670September 17Holiday and observanceMarathwada Liberation Day (India)
106671September 17Holiday and observanceNational Apple Dumpling Day (United States)
106672September 17Holiday and observanceOperation Market Garden Anniversary is still remembered with parachuting and dedications on this day. (Netherlands)
106673September 17Holiday and observanceTeachers' Day (Honduras)
106674September 17Holiday and observanceVon Steuben Day. (United States), weekend of the week of September 17.
106675September 18Event96 – Nerva is proclaimed Roman emperor after Domitian is assassinated.
106676September 18Event324 – Constantine the Great decisively defeats Licinius in the Battle of Chrysopolis, establishing Constantine's sole control over the Roman Empire.
106677September 18Event1180 – Philip Augustus becomes king of France.
106678September 18Event1454 – In the Battle of Chojnice, the Polish army is defeated by the Teutonic army during the Thirteen Years' War.
106679September 18Event1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage.
106680September 18Event1618 – The twelfth Baktun in the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar begins.

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