Historical Events on September 17.

1. 1630, 17th September – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.

2. 1787, 17th September – 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. 

3. 1792, 17th September – George Washington gave his farewell address as President of the USA.

4. 1948, 17th September – The Nizam of Hyderabad surrendered his sovereignty over the Hyderabad State and joins the Indian Union. 

5. 1983, 17th September – Vanessa Williams became the first black Miss America.

6. 1991, 17th September – The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) was released to the Internet.

7. 2001, 17th September – The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression.

Famous Birthdays & Birth Anniversaries on September 17.

1. 1879 – Periyar E. V. Ramasamy, Indian politician, and social reformer.

2. 1885 – Prabodhankar Thakre, Indian writer. He is a father of Bal Saheb Thakre.

3. 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.

4. 1914 – Thomas J. Bata, Czech businessman. Known as ‘Shoemaker of the World’.

5. 1915 – M. F. Husain, Indian painter.

6. 1929 – Anant Pai, an Indian educationalist and a pioneer in Indian comics.

7. 1930 – Lalgudi Jayaraman, an Indian Carnatic violinist, vocalist and composer.

8. 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.

9. 1950 – Narendra Modi, Indian Politician, 14th Prime Minister of India. 

10. 1985 – Ravichandran Ashwin, Indian cricket player.

Death Anniversaries of famous people on September 17.

1. 1665 – Philips IV, King of Spain, and Portugal.

2. 1877 – William Henry fox Talbot, British botanist, and physicist who pioneered photographic techniques.

3. 1996 – Spiro Agnew, 39th vice-president of the United States.

4. 1994 – Carl Popper, Austrian-British philosopher. Considered as of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. 

5. 1999 – Hasrat Jaipuri, an Indian poet.

6. 2002 – Vasant Bapat, Indian poet, writer, and speaker.

7. 2006 – Patricia Kennedy Lawford, an American socialist. She was a sister of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and Senator Ted Kennedy.

17-September-1799

Parshuram Bhau Patwardhan, an able leader and diplomat of Madhavrao Peshwa kingdom, passed away.

17-September-1864

Anagrik Dharmapal, religious reformer, was born.

17-September-1876

Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay was born in Debanandpur village.

17-September-1879

E.V. Ramaswami Naicker, prominent leader of Dravid movement and social reformer, was born at Erode in Tamil Nadu.

17-September-1885

Keshav Sitaram Thakrey, journalist, social reformer and historian, was born.

17-September-1892

Shri Hanuman Prasad Poddar, social reformer, revolutionary and poet, was born in Shillong.

17-September-1899

First British troops leave Bombay for South Africa.

17-September-1924

Popati Ramchand Hiranandani, famous Hindi writer, was born at Hyderabad in Sind.

17-September-1929

La Fontaine, Air Chief Marshal D A La Fontaine PVSM and AVSM, VM, was born in Madras.

17-September-1934

Gandhiji announced his decision to retire from politics from October one to engage himself in the development of village industries, Harijan service and education through basic crafts.

17-September-1937

Sitakant Mahapatra, 1933 Gyanpeeth awardee and famous Orria poet, was born.

17-September-1938

Dilip Purushottam Chitre, famous Marathi poet, story writer, critic and Sahitya Academy awardee, was born.

17-September-1948

The Nizam of Hyderabad, in a broadcast, announced ceasefire to his troops and accession into Indian Union, which was settled earlier to the announcement.

17-September-1950

Govt. grants diplomatic recognition to Israel.

17-September-1954

India outlaws bigamy.

17-September-1956

Oil and Natural Gas Commission (ONGC ) established.

17-September-1960

Agreement reached with Pakistan on the distribution of the River Indus and its tributaries.

17-September-1997

Advance railway reservation period extended from 30 to 60 days w.e.f. February 01, 1998.

17-September-1997

Kalpakkam Mini Reactor (KAMINI), the only U-233 fuelled operating reactor in the world, attains maximum capacity of 30 KW.

17-September-1998

Rabri Devi, Chief Minister of Bihar, expands the Cabinet, inducting nine ministers, even as the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (Soren) group formally withdraws support to her ministry.

17-September-1999

India and the United States begin high level consultations to find ways on countering terrorism.

17-September-1999

Narayan Desai, Ajoy Kumar Basu and Saraswathi Gora are named for Jamnalal Bajaj awards.