WHAT HAPPENED ON 17. SEPTEMBER
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The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt. (17. September 1978)

After weeks of strikes at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdańsk, Poland, the nationwide independent trade union Solidarity is established. (17. September 1980)

Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay. (17. September 1980)

Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America. (17. September 1983)

Pope John Paul II embraces an AIDS-infected boy while visiting San Francisco. (17. September 1987)

Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations. (17. September 1991)

The first version of the Linux kernel (0.01) is released to the Internet. (17. September 1991)

An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany. (17. September 1992)

The New York Stock Exchange reopens for trading after the September 11 attacks, the longest closure since the Great Depression. (17. September 2001)

Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the long-dormant volcano in at least 10,000 years. (17. September 2006)

An audio tape of a private speech by Hungarian Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány is leaked to the public, in which he confessed that his Hungarian Socialist Party had lied to win the 2006 election, sparking widespread protests across the country. (17. September 2006)

Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City. (17. September 2011)