On September 17
On September 17, 2 pivotal events are recorded in the Human Saga, including The United States Constitution drafted and ratified (1787).
On this day
Meeting in Philadelphia from May to September 1787, delegates from the American states abandoned an effort merely to revise the weak Articles of Confederation and instead drafted an entirely new frame of government.
On 17 September 2011 protesters inspired by a call from the Canadian anti-consumerist magazine Adbusters occupied Zuccotti Park in New York City's financial district, launching Occupy Wall Street.
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On 19 September 1893 the Governor of New Zealand, Lord Glasgow, signed a new Electoral Act into law, making the colony the first self-governing nation in the world to grant all adult women the right to vote in parliamentary elections.
The Montreal Protocol is a landmark international environmental treaty adopted on 16 September 1987 in Montreal, Canada, to phase out the production and consumption of ozone-depleting substances such as chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and…
On 15 September 2008 Lehman Brothers, the fourth-largest US investment bank, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy with more than $600 billion in assets—the largest bankruptcy in American history.
At the Rainhill Trials of 6-14 October 1829 the directors of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway held a public competition to decide what motive power their line should use.
On 18 September 1931, officers of Japan's Kwantung Army detonated explosives on a Japanese-owned railway near Mukden (Shenyang) and blamed Chinese forces, staging the false-flag Mukden Incident as a pretext for invasion.
On 14 September 2015 the twin detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO), in Hanford, Washington, and Livingston, Louisiana, recorded the first direct detection of gravitational waves, ripples in spacetime…
From 20 to 27 September 2019 the world saw the largest coordinated climate protests in history, a 'Global Week for Future' that drew an estimated 6 to 7.6 million participants across roughly 4,500 locations in more than 150 countries.