Historical timeline for September 17

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan sign the Strategic Mutual Defence Agreement.

A Russian reconnaissance aircraft carrying 15 people on board is brought down by a Syrian surface-to-air missile over the Mediterranean Sea.

Two bombs explode in Seaside Park, New Jersey, and Manhattan. Thirty-one people are injured in the Manhattan bombing.

Grand Theft Auto V earns more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.

Occupy Wall Street movement begins in Zuccotti Park, New York City.

Fourpeaked Mountain in Alaska erupts, marking the first eruption for the volcano in at least 10,000 years.

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.

George W. Bush, president of the United States, delivers remarks at the Islamic Center of Washington praising Muslim Americans and condemning Islamophobia in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks.

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

An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin.

Estonia, North Korea, South Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, the Marshall Islands and Micronesia join the United Nations.

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

Vanessa Williams becomes the first black Miss America.

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

Former Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza Debayle is killed in Asunción, Paraguay.

The Camp David Accords are signed by Israel and Egypt.

The Space Shuttle Enterprise is unveiled by NASA.

Bangladesh, Grenada and Guinea-Bissau join the United Nations.

The Battle of Chawinda is fought between Pakistan and India.

Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 706 crashes during takeoff from O'Hare International Airport in Chicago, Illinois, killing all 37 people on board.