Following are some of the major events to have occurred on September 17
Reuters
1935 - Manuel Quezon y Molina was elected first president of the Philippine Commonwealth, established under U.S. tutelage.
1948 - Count Folke Bernadotte of Sweden, United Nations mediator between Israel and the Arabs, was killed by Jewish extremists in Jerusalem whilst on a fact-finding mission.
1957 - In Thailand, the government of Field-Marshal Pibul Songgram was overthrown in a bloodless coup by General Sarit Thanarat.
1996 - Spiro Agnew, U.S. vice president, died aged 77. He was vice president under President Richard Nixon from 1969 until his resignation in 1973 on charges he had received bribes.
2001 - The New York Stock Exchange reopened after a four-day shutdown -- the longest break since the Great Depression. Wall Street suffered its biggest-ever points plunge following the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington.
2004 - The European Union launched a new paramilitary force designed to help restore public order to regions emerging from conflict such as the Balkans.
2006 - Patricia Kennedy Lawford, the sister of President John F. Kennedy and wife of English actor Peter Lawford, who tirelessly supported the political campaigns of her brothers, died at the age of 82.
2006 - Surfers in Cape Town attempt to set a new record for the most surfers on one wave.
2007 - A European Union court upheld a landmark 2004 ruling that the world's largest software maker Microsoft had abused its dominant market position to crush rivals.
2010 - Nurcan Taylan of Turkey sets new world record in women's 48kg weightlifting clean and jerk competition.
2016 - Explosion wounds dozens in Chelsea neighbourhood of Manhattan, New York.
