Historical Events on September 17 (Part 2)

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• 1992 NFL decides to suspend World League Football
• 1992 Theodore (Ted) Weiss wins democratic primary for NYC congressional seat despite having died on 14th
• 1993 Last Russian troops leave Poland.

• 1994 Andy Waller out handled the ball for Mashonaland CD v Mash U24
• 1996 Dodger Hideo Nomo no-hits Colorado Rockies, 9-0 at Coors Field
• 1997 Dr Sam Sheppard's body (Fugitive) is exhumed for DNA test

• 2001 Major trading markets in the United States, including the New York Stock Exchange and the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX), reopen for the first time since September 11

• 2004 Tamil is declared the first classical language in India.

• 2007 AOL, once the largest ISP in the U.S., officially announces plans to refocus the company as an advertising business and to relocate its corporate headquarters from Dulles, Virginia to New York City
• 2008 The IAU named another dwarf planet, Haumea

• 2010 The 54 year run of the soap opera As the World Turns ends as its final episode is broadcast.

• 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement against economic inequality and the influence of money in politics begins in Zucotti Park, New York City
• 2012 13 people are killed in a bus accident in Jubail, Saudi Arabia
• 2012 China dispatches 1,000 fishing boats to Senkaku Islands
• 2012 Panasonic suspends operations at its three factories in China

• 2012 United States and Japanese government officials agree to put a second missile defense system in Japan
• 2013 6 people are killed after a train and double-decker bus collide in Ottawa, Canada
• 2013 TV comedy "Brooklyn Nine-Nine" starring Andy Samberg and an ensemble cast premieres in the US on Fox

• 2015 US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports 2015 Northern Hemisphere summer hottest on record
• 2016 Farm Aid held in Bristow, Virginia; performers include Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp, Neil Young, Dave Matthews, Alabama Shakes, Sturgill Simpson, Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Jamey Johnson & Alison Krauss, Margo Price, and The Wisdom Indian Dancers [1]
• 2016 Terror bomb in Chelsea, New York injures 29
• 2017 Evian Championship Women's Golf, Evian Resort GC: Anna Nordqvist of Sweden beats Brittany Altomare at 1st sudden-death playoff hole; event reduced to 54 holes after day 1 abandoned (bad weather)
• 2017 Wanda Metropolitano stadium, new home of football team Atlético Madrid hosts its 1st match (against Malaga) in Madrid, Spain
• 2018 50 girls treated in hospital in Kaya, Burkina Faso after illegal botched circumcisions
• 2018 Flooding in Nigeria kills over 100 people as Benue and Niger Rivers overflow
• 2018 Hurricane Florence has caused 900 people to be rescued from flooding, death toll at 23, city of Wilmington isolated officials announce
• 2018 Needles purposely hidden in strawberries in Australia prompt government to order an investigation
• 2018 US border control agent confesses to the murder of four women and assault of another in Laredo, Texas
• 2019 Indonesia raises the female marriage age to 19, in line with males, to curb child marriages

• 2020 More than 15,000 fires have caused widespread devastation in Brazil's Pantanal wetlands in 2020, according to its National Institute for Space Research
• 2021 France recalls its ambassadors to the US and Australia, describing their new Aukus pact and the cancellation of a major military contract as a 'stab in the back'
• 2021 Netflix drama "Squid Game" premieres created by Hwang Dong-hyuk
• 2022 Cheetahs re-introduced to India from Namibia, after being extinct 70 years ago, at Kuno National Park in Madya Pradesh state [1]
• 2022 Protests erupt in Iran and continue the next few days at the treatment of women, after the funeral of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year old who died in morality police custody [1]

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