September 17

National Apple Dumpling Day

Citizenship Day

Constitution Day

International Country Music Day 

Time's Up Day
(A day to let you know that if you've been waiting to make up with someone close to you, that you've officially run out of time and it's time to make amends. Life's too short to be on bad terms with those you should be close to you.)

 Hildegard of Bingen Feast Day
(Was a German Benedictine abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. She is considered the founder of scientific natural history in Germany)

Birthdays 
1896- Sam Ervin Jr., Key figure in the Senate Watergate investigation
1907- Warren Burger, chief justice of the Supreme Court
1923 – Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Drifting Cowboys)
1928- Roddy McDowall, actor, "Planet of the Apes" movies
1931- Anne Bancroft, actress
1944- James Brady, gun control advocate, presidential press secretary  during Reagan administration
1945- Phil Jackson, NBA basketball player, coach
1947- Jeff MacNelly, cartoonist, created "Shoe"
1948- John Ritter, actor, comedian, TV series "Three's Company"

History 

1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts is founded.
1778 – The Treaty of Fort Pitt is signed. It is the first formal treaty between the United States and a Native American tribe (the Lenape or Delaware Indians).
1787 – The United States Constitution is signed in Philadelphia.
1814 – Francis Scott Key finishes his poem "Defence of Fort McHenry", later to be the lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner".
1908 – The Wright Flyer flown by Orville Wright, with Lieutenant Thomas Selfridge as passenger, crashes, killing Selfridge. He becomes the first airplane fatality.