September 17<\/p>\n
1176 \u2013 The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empire to recover central Anatolia (modern Turkey) from the Seljuk Turks.<\/p>\n
1620 \u2013\u00a0 The Ottoman Empire defeats the Polish\u2013Lithuanian Commonwealth during the Battle of Cecora during the Polish\u2013Ottoman War<\/p>\n
1630 \u2013 The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.<\/p>\n
1683 \u2013 Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society in London describing “animalcules” – bacteria <\/em>he observed through a microscope he had constructed.<\/p>\n 1775 \u2013 U.S. forces invade Canada during the American Revolution by besieging Fort St. Jean, Quebec<\/p>\n 1776 \u2013 The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain, modern day California<\/p>\n 1778 \u2013 The first formal treaty between the U.S. and an American Indian tribe, the Lenape, is signed at Fort Pitt in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n 1787 \u2013 At the Federal Convention in Philadelphia, the delegates sign the United States Constitution and prepare to transmit it to the states for ratification.<\/p>\n 1849 \u2013 Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery in Maryland.<\/p>\n 1858 \u2013 Dred Scott, a year after being manumitted, dies of Tuberculosis in St Louis.<\/p>\n 1862 \u2013 Across Antietam Creek near Sharpsburg, Maryland, General Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia and General McClellan’s Army of the Potomac 1868 \u2013 Tracking a raiding party of Sioux and Cheyenne warriors from Kansas into Colorado, U.S. mounted scouts, encamped on Beecher island in the Arikaree River, south of present day Wray, Colorado, foil an ambush but are still surrounded, suffering heavy casualties until relieved.<\/p>\n 1900 \u2013 In the Philippine\u2013American War, Filipinos under Juan Cailles defeat Americans under Colonel Benjamin F. Cheatham Jr. at Mabitac on Luzon.<\/p>\n 1908 \u2013 The first airplane fatality occurs when the Wright Flyer, flown by Orville Wright, crashes, killing U.S. Army Lt. Thomas Selfridge aboard as a passenger.<\/p>\n 1916 \u2013 Baron Manfred von Richthofen wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France during World War I.<\/p>\n 1928 \u2013 The Okeechobee hurricane at category, 5 strength, strikes southeastern Florida hitting land near West Palm Beach, Florida,\u00a0 killing more than 2,500 people as it traverses the state.<\/p>\n 1932 \u2013 After discovering an incursion and occupation of the towns\u00a0 of Leticia and Tarapac\u00e1 by Peruvian military forces that had occurred on the 1st of the month, the Colombian Senate minority leader and future President Laureano G\u00f3mez calls for war to be declared against Peru.<\/p>\n 1940 \u2013 Due to setbacks in the aerial Battle of Britain, Hitler postpones Operation Sea Lion<\/em>, the invasion of Britain.<\/p>\n 1944 \u2013 Allied airborne troops parachute into the Netherlands as the “Market” half of Operation Market Garden<\/em> begins.<\/p>\n 1961 \u2013 Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706, a Lockheed L-188 Electra<\/em>, crashes during takeoff from O’Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, killing all 37 passengers and crew aboard<\/p>\n 1976 \u2013 The Space Shuttle Enterprise<\/em> is unveiled by NASA.<\/p>\n 1978 \u2013 The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.<\/p>\n 1996 \u2013 Former Vice President Spiro Agnew dies of acute leukemia at Atlantic General Hospital in Ocean City, Maryland.<\/p>\n 2001 \u2013 The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks<\/p>\n 2016 \u2013 A pipe bomb and a pressure cooker bomb set by a moslem terrorist explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. 3 police officers and the terrorist are injured in the New Jersey bombing and 31 people are injured in Manhattan. 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\nengage in the bloodiest single day of combat in American military history with over 22,700 total casualties, effectively ending Lee’s Maryland Campaign.<\/p>\n