On this day: September 17

September 17: Ganesh Chaturthi begins (Hinduism, 2015); Constitution Day in the United States

Folke Bernadotte

• 1176 – Byzantine–Seljuk wars: The Seljuk Turks prevented the Byzantines from taking the interior of Anatolia at the Battle of Myriokephalon in Phrygia.
• 1630 – Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony founded the city of Boston.
• 1939 – Second World War: The Royal Navy lost its first warship in the war when German submarine U-29 torpedoed and sank HMS Courageous.
• 1948 – Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte (pictured) was assassinated by the militant Zionist group Lehi.
• 1980 – The Polish trade union Solidarity was founded as the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country.

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