September 17: What Happened on This Day in History (High_school Level)?

(Page last edited 10/12/2017)

1. 1630 - The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
2. 1683 - Antonie van Leeuwenhoek writes a letter to the Royal Society describing "animalcules": the first known description of protozoa.
3. 1787 - The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
4. 1849 - American abolitionist Harriet Tubman escapes from slavery.
5. 1920 - The American Professional Football Association (later renamed National Football League) is organized in Canton, Ohio,United States.
6. 1928 - The Okeechobee Hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing upwards of 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston Hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.
7. 1976 - The first Space Shuttle, Enterprise, is unveiled by NASA
8. 1991 - The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet.
9. 2006 - Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years.
10. 2011 - Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park, New York City.
11. Famous Birthdays: Pope Paul V, David Dunbar Buick (American automobile pioneer), Thomas Stafford (American astronaut), Wendy Northcutt (Author of the Darwin Awards), Yuji Naka (Japanese video game programmer)

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