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Events on September 17

• 1156 By the Privilegium Minus, Emperor Frederick I of Austria elevates Austria under Margrave Henry II Jasomirgott to a hereditary duchy for the House of Babenberg.
• 1631 The armies of Sweden and Electoral Saxony under Gustavus Adolphus defeat Field Marshal Tilly, who leads the Catholic League, at the Battle of Breitenfeld during the Thirty Years' War.
• 1787 The Constitutional Convention adopts the federal Constitution of the United States.
• 1939 Following the German invasion of Poland, two Soviet army groups (fronts) march into eastern Poland in accordance with the secret supplementary protocol of the Hitler-Stalin Pact.
• 1940 The planned invasion of England by German troops during the Second World War (codename Operation Sea Lion) is postponed indefinitely due to massive resistance by the Royal Air Force. Hitler thereby writes off the air battle over England as a loss for Germany.
• 1954 In Berlin, the America Memorial Library is opened as a gift from the United States to Berlin after the blockade by the Soviet Union had been overcome.
• 1976 Rollout of the Space Shuttle Enterprise at Rockwell in Palmdale, California. The Enterprise served as a technology demonstrator for the study of all problems of shuttle technology; it is now a museum exhibit owned by the Smithsonian Institution.
• 1980 The independent trade union Solidarność is founded as a coalition of various strike committees in Poland. Lech Wałęsa is elected chairman.
• 1982 Due to disagreements over the budget draft, the 13-year coalition between the SPD and FDP in Germany breaks down. The SPD forms a minority government until the vote of no confidence on October 1, 1982.
• 1991 Linus Torvalds publishes the first version of Linux (version 0.01) on a public FTP server, thereby laying the foundation for the worldwide development of this new open-source operating system.
• 2006 At the Men's Hockey World Championship, the German men's national hockey team becomes world champion for the second time. It wins the final in Mönchengladbach with a 4:3 victory over Australia.
• 2013 The open-world video game Grand Theft Auto V is released for the game consoles common at the time. It quickly becomes one of the most commercially successful video games of the 2010s.

Born on September 17

• 1883 Käthe Kruse, German doll maker
• 1883 William Carlos Williams, American writer and physician
• 1923 Hank Williams, American country musician
• 1931 Anne Bancroft, American actress
• 1940 Heidelinde Weis, Austrian actress
• 1950 Narendra Modi, Indian politician, prime minister since 2014
• 1960 Damon Hill, British motor racing driver
• 1971 Sergej Barbarez, Bosnian-Herzegovinian football player
• 1980 Markus Krösche, German football player
• 2002 Jazeek, American-German rapper

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Source of events and birthdays: German Wikipedia article „17. September“, licence CC BY-SA 4.0, selected, shortened and translated by Birthday Paper.

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