Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 17

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 * 1630 – Puritan settlers from England founded the city of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, naming it after Boston, Lincolnshire, the origin of several prominent colonists.
 * 1658 – Portuguese Restoration War: Having crossed the Minho and entered Portuguese territory, a Spanish army was victorious in the Battle of Vilanova.
 * 1775 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army under Richard Montgomery began the Siege of Fort St. Jean in the British province of Quebec.
 * 1793 – War of the Pyrenees: Forces from the French Army of the Eastern Pyrenees defeated two divisions of the Army of Catalonia, ending the furthest Spanish encroachment in their invasion of Roussillon.
 * 1849 – Harriet Tubman (pictured) escaped from slavery in the U.S. state of Maryland, and later orchestrated the rescues of other slaves via the Underground Railroad.
 * 1862 – American Civil War: Almost 23,000 total casualties were suffered at the Battle of Antietam near Sharpsburg, Maryland, where Confederate and Union troops fought to a tactical stalemate.
 * 1878 – A British surveyor was detained by the Zulu on the border with the Colony of Natal; a demand for reparations for the incident formed part of an ultimatum that led to the Anglo-Zulu War.
 * 1939 – Second World War: The Royal Navy lost its first warship in the war when German submarine U-29 torpedoed and sank HMS Courageous (50).
 * 1939 – World War II: The Soviet Union invaded Poland from the east, sixteen days after Nazi Germany's attack on the country from the west.
 * 1962 – NASA announced the Next Nine astronauts (pictured) selected for the purpose of landing on the moon.
 * 1958 – Tintin in Tibet, the twentieth volume of The Adventures of Tintin by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé and which he regarded as his favourite in the series, began serialisation.
 * 1970 – The Jordanian army entered Amman as part of operations to oust Palestinian fedayeen from the country in events later known as Black September (smoke over city pictured).
 * 1980 – Solidarity, a Polish trade union, was founded as the first independent labor union in an Eastern Bloc country.
 * 2011 – Adbusters, a Canadian anti-consumerist publication, organized a protest against corporate influence on democracy at Zuccotti Park in New York City that became known as Occupy Wall Street.
 * 2018 – The Israeli Air Force conducted missile strikes that hit multiple targets in western Syria, including one that accidentally downed a Russian plane.
 * Born/died: | Robert Bellarmine |d|1621| Stephen Hales |b|1677| Elizabeth Canning |b|1734| Jonathan Alder |b|1773| Earl Van Dorn |b|1820| Frederick Corbett |b|1853| Vera Yevstafievna Popova |b|1867| Henri Julien |d|1908| David Craig, Baron Craig of Radley |b|1929| Thomas P. Stafford |b|1930| Narendra Modi |b|1950| Mandawuy Yunupingu |b|1956| Red Skelton |d|1997| Eiji Toyoda |d|2013