Historical Events - September 17

1630– The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.

1787– The United States composed a new constitution. George Washington, leader of the Philadelphia Convention, was today presented with a new Constitution for the United States of America. 

1792– George Washington gave his farewell address as President of the USA.

1948– The Nizam of Hyderabad surrendered his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union. 

1983– Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America.

1991– The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) was released to the Internet.

2001– The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.

 

Famous Birthday – September 17

1879 – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian politician, and social reformer.

1885 – Prabodhankar Thakre, Indian writer. He is a father of Bal Saheb Thakre.

1901 – Sir Francis Chichester, English yachtsman and aviator who was knighted for sailing around the world solo in Gypsy Moth IV and flew his plane Gypsy Moth solo east to west across the Tasman Sea.

1914 – Thomas J. Bata, Czech businessman. Known as ‘Shoemaker of the World’.

1915 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter.

1929 – Anant Pai, an Indian educationalist and a pioneer in Indian comics.

1930 – Lalgudi Jayaraman, an Indian Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer.

1931 – Anne Bancroft, American actress who made her name on Broadway in the Miracle Worker and won an Oscar for the film version. Other films include the Graduate.

1950 – Narendra Modi, Indian Politician, 14th Prime Minister of India. 

1985 – Ravichandran Ashwin, Indian cricket player.

 

Death Anniversaries– September 17

1665 – Philips IV, King of Spain, and Portugal.

1877 – William Henry fox Talbot, British botanist, and physicist who pioneered photographic techniques.

1996 – Spiro Agnew, 39th vice-president of the United States.

1994 – Carl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher. Considered as of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. 

1999 – Hasrat Jaipuri, an Indian poet.

2002 – Vasant Bapat, Indian poet, writer, and speaker.

2006 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, an American socialist. She was a sister of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Ted Kennedy.